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Metropolitan-area government is found in __________.

A) New York City
B) Chicago, Illinois
C) Nashville, Tennessee
D) San Francisco, California

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According to the text, the challenge facing urban planners is finding the line between speculative fancy and unimaginative extensions of the past.

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According to the text data since the Great Recession shows millennials more interested in __________.

There is wide public support today for single metropolitan-area governments.

Brasilia was designed to resemble the shape of a(n) __________.

The American metro areas are where __________.

Paolo Soleri has constructed a highly successful prototype of his planned city in Arizona.

Discuss the question of social planning and technology. What is the relative importance of technology versus social planning? Explain your view.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of conventional, reformist and radical approaches to social planning. Which do you advocate and why?

Which of the following strategies for urban planning and problem solving reflects the philosophy that the system, itself, needs some modifications?

Bike sharing schemes first proposed decades ago in The Urban World are now found in cities everywhere. What middle-range scheme(s) would you propose to improve urban life?

Discuss the question of planning for the future of metropolitan political systems. What are the alternatives? What policy, approach or scheme do you favor?

Which of the following is a planned capitol city ?

According to the text, the "death of the city" prophesies of the 1970s and 1980s for U.S. cities __________.

Chicago is currently encouraging green roofs on office buildings.

During the last decade the populations of central cities generally has __________.

The tallest building in the world is found in __________.

Continued suburban and exurban sprawl has been slowed by __________.

According to the text, African American middle-class suburbanization is slowing down.

Le Corbusier wrote a book entitled The Living City in which he recommended miniaturization and compactness as a design theme for cities.