CSS Town Planning Urban Management Past Paper 2016

Instructions specific to this paper

• Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. Elucidate your answers with SKETCHES,

Questions

1. Q. 220 marks

   Explain the role of town planner as a “technocrat who leads a team of engineers, architects, sociologists, urban economists, geographers, and environmentalists to ensure rational decision making by politician regarding the future investment for development”.

2. Q. 320 marks

   Urbanization –is it a curse or blessing? Explain your answer with example in both cases.

3. Q. 420 marks

   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 nation to boast their economic development. Explain the planning mechanism of Pakistan in historic perspective and identify loopholes in the existing mechanism.

4. Q. 520 marks

   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 world and suggest its appropriateness or otherwise for our cities.

5. Q. 620 marks

   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.

6. Q. 720 marks

   Why policies are important in socio-economic development perspective? Explain behavioral as well as structural views of policy formulation. Q. No.. Write short note on any TWO of the following: (10 each) (20) (a) Gentrification (b) Public participation in planning (c) Significance of GIS in planning as a spatial analysis tool

Standard FPSC instructions

Printed on this and every CSS paper.

• Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
• All the parts (if any) of each question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
• Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the question paper.
• No page/space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of the Answer Book must be crossed.
• Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.