CSS Town Planning & Urban Management Past Paper 2016
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PART-2(Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q.2. Explain the role of a town planner as a “technocrat who leads a team of engineers, architects, sociologists, urban economists, geographers, and environmentalists to ensure rational decision-making by politicians regarding future investment for development.”
Q.3. Urbanization – is it a curse or a blessing? Explain your answer with examples in both cases.
Q.4. Pakistan was regarded as one of the fastest-growing nations in the world in the mid-60s, and its five-year plans were used by some nations to boost their economic development. Explain the planning mechanism of Pakistan in a historical perspective and identify the loopholes in the existing mechanism.
Q.5. 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 examples from both developing and developed worlds and suggest its appropriateness, or otherwise, for our cities.
Q.6. How relevant are Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for ensuring safe and efficient urban mobility in Pakistan? What do you understand about the system architecture of ITS? Suggest a deployment mechanism, both logical and physical, for a typical city of Pakistan.
Q.7. Why are policies important from a socio-economic development perspective? Explain the behavioral as well as structural views of policy formulation.
Q.8. Write short notes on any two of the following :
- Gentrification
- Public participation in planning
- Significance of GIS in planning as a spatial analysis tool