Town Planning & Urban Management 2016

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NOTE: "attempt only four questions from part II. Eluciate your answer with SKETCHES, DIAGRAM & FLOW CHARTS.

1. Explain the role of town planner as a "technocrat who leads a team of engineers, architects, sociologists, geographers, & environmentalists to ensure rational decision making by politician regarding the future investment for development"

2.Urbanization-is it a curse or blessing? Explain your answer with example in both causes.

3.Land use zoning has been used as a tool to control development stringently. But has this policy helped the job of a development planner? Explain your answer with example from both developing and developed world and suggests its appropriateness or otherwise for our cities.

4-Pakistan was regarded as one of the fastest growing nation of the world in mid 60s and its 5 years plans were used by some nations to boast their economic development. Explain the planning mechanism of Pakistan in historic perspective and identity loopholes in the existing mechanism.

5-How relevant Intelligent Transport System (ITS) are for ensuring safe and efficient Urban mobility in Pakistan? What do you understand about system architecture of IT? Explain behavioural as well as structural views of policy formation.

6.Why policies are important in socio-economic development perspective? Explain behavioral as well as structural views of policy formulation.

7.Short notes on any two of the following:
~Gentrification
~Public participation in planning
~Significance of GIS in planning as a spatial analysis tool

[abbas khan 119]

Almost half the questions taken from john levy book.
people took it an easy paper but it required torough analysis and deep study.

[najambaloch]

If anyone can remember the MCQ's, please do share it.

[Nooor]

Only One MCq I remember

GIS Stands for....

[Jabbar Raheem]

Mcqs that troubled me :
Chandigarh pattern : gridiron
Greater London plan by whom : abercombie
Primate city size : double
Milton Keynes : none of these, uk
Barlow report : 1940
ITS architecture : 4 perhaps
Hellerau : none of these, Germany
Tp association : England

[Sana Rasool]

Anybody drew sketches, diagrams or flowcharts?

[Nooor]

Less than forty candidates only at Rawalpindi center for town planning

and #Jabbar Raheem please share also those MCQs which didn't trouble you if you remember...

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Chandigarh pattern : Linear
Greater London plan by whom : abercombie
Primate city size : Thrice
Milton Keynes : UK
Barlow report : 1940 (I did 1930
ITS architecture : 3D I think It was three
Hellerau : Germany (mine was incorrect
Tp association : England
CBD city business district
GIS geographical information system

Mere six seven to lag gaae hain :d was not expecting though. Thankyou Jabbar, please guys recall some more mcs.

[najambaloch]

Originally Posted by Sana Rasool

Anybody drew sketches, diagrams or flowcharts?

I did it for a couple of questions.

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I drew Urbanization flow chart, growth rate diagram in question number 2:

Urbanization:
According to Mitchell urbanization is a process of becoming urban, moving to cities, changing from agriculture to other pursuits common to cities.

More than 50% of the world population now lives in cities & that figure is set to rise to 75% by 2050.
High urbanization in the world is in both Asia & Africa.

Population living in urban areas: Source: UN, World Urbanization Prospects: 2003 Revision (2004)
Also UNPD (Population Division) & WB depicted it:
----------29 (1950)
----------------37 (1975)
---------------------47 (2000)
-------------------------61 (2030)

50% people of the world are living in urban areas
750million people are living $2 per day & 290million on $1 per day (Report: WB 2013)
Deteriorating condition due to urbanization with respect to socioeconomic aspects & population.
Though, urbanization is engine for economic growth
S.Asia, due to urbanization, confrontation of socioeconomic problems in today's world.


In question 3, I drew diagram of CBD/Ring, Axial & Nuclei theories along with a hierarchy settlements. In addition to that, I drew tree zoning chart of agro-industrial sector, commercial, socio-economic zoning and incorporated some statistics of USA, Canada & Australia models along with India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

I could not drew any diagram flow chart in rest of the questions due to short of time. To me it was an average attempt, could not make it what I used to project it to attempt.