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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?

2. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

3. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?

4. What refers to entry points or points of transportation in a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

5. What refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does "The Urbanization of the Human Population" explain urbanization in relation to human development?

2. In Friedrich Engels' "The Great Towns," how does the author describe the other side of the river? What does he blame for the urban congestion?

3. Describe author Kingsley Davis. What works is he most well-known for?

4. What are examples of "boundaries" as defined by Kevin Lynch? What are nodes?

5. What city does Pirenne discuss in "Cities and European Civilization"? How does he describe it?

6. What vision is described in Ernest W. Burgess's "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

7. What city is described in John Brinckerhoff Jackson's "The Almost Perfect Town"?

8. What led to the publication of "The Design of Spaces"? What does this study entail?

9. How many Americans lived in urban areas in 1960, according to Kingsley Davis? How did this change?

10. What impact did the feudal system have on production, according to "The Urbanization of the Human Population"? When did production levels change?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are W.E.B. Dubois' ideas reflected in "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice"?

Essay Topic 2

Identify and define the following terms: discipline, interdisciplinary, urban planning and research, and compartmentalization. How are each of these related in the Introduction and Prologue?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the three models presented by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life." Which of these models do they most relate to or prefer? Why?

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