Town Planning and Urban Management 2016

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION-2016 FOR RECRUITMENT TO
POSTS IN BS-17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

TOWN PLANNING & URBAN MANAGEMENT

PART-II

Q. No. 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 the future investment for development”. (20)

Q. No. 3. Urbanization – is it a curse or blessing? Explain your answer with examples in both cases. (20)

Q. No. 4. Pakistan was regarded as one of the fastest-growing nations of the world in mid 60s and its 5-year plans were used by some nation to boast their economic development. Explain the planning mechanism of Pakistan in historic perspective and identify loopholes in the existing mechanism. (20)

Q. No. 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 the developing and developed world and suggest its appropriateness or otherwise for our cities. (20)

Q. No. 6. How relevant Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are for ensuring safe and efficient urban mobility in Pakistan? What do you understand about system architecture of ITS? Suggest a deployment mechanism, both logical and physical, for a typical city of Pakistan. (20)

Q. No. 7. Why policies are important in socio-economic development perspective? Explain behavioral as well as structural views of policy formulation. (20)

Q. No. 8. Write short note on any TWO of the following:

(a) Gentrification
(b) Public participation in planning
(c) Significance of GIS in planning as a spatial analysis tool

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