Architecture and Planning
GATE AR topic:planning-process PYQs
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Question 11
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The five elements of Ekistics as defined by C.A. Doxiadis are Nature, Man, Society, ____________, and Networks.
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Match the following city planning concepts in Group-I with their proponents in Group-II.
Group-I: P City Beautiful; Q Conservative Surgery; R Happy City; S Garden City.
Group-II: 1 Robert Owen; 2 Daniel Burnham; 3 Patrick Geddes; 4 Charles Montgomery; 5 Ebenezer Howard.
(A) P – 2, Q – 3, R – 1, S – 4
(B) P – 2, Q – 3, R – 4, S – 5
(C) P – 1, Q – 3, R – 2, S – 5
(D) P – 1, Q – 2, R – 4, S – 3
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In Burges’s Concentric Zone model, 1920, ________________ is characterized by mixed residential and commercial establishments.
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Match the following Books in Group-I with their corresponding Authors in Group-II.
Group-I:
(P) Cities for People
(Q) Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
(R) The Death and Life of Great American Cities
(S) The Image of the City
Group-II:
(1) Francis D. K. Ching
(2) Jan Gehl
(3) Kevin Lynch
(4) Jane Jacobs
(5) F. L. Wright
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The author of the book Human Aspects of Urban Form is
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Match the following concepts in Group–I with their corresponding description in Group–II.
Group–I: (P) N I M B Y; (Q) Form based code; (R) Tactical urbanism; (S) Suburbanisation.
Group–II: (1) Affording a clear view of the waterfront to a plot through the abutting street; (2) Planning and zoning tool to regulate development primarily through urban form; (3) Establishment of residential areas on the outskirts of a city; (4) Short-term, low cost, scalable interventions and policies to change a neighbourhood; (5) Resisting any physical intervention by public or private enterprises within their neighbourhood
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Match the terminologies in Group–I with their descriptions in Group–II.
Group–I: (P) Edge City; (Q) Synekism; (R) Urbicide; (S) Urban Sprawl.
Group–II: (1) Rapid expansion of geographical areas of towns or cities; (2) Violence against the city; (3) A secondary CBD on the edge of the city; (4) Rebuilding core city area; (5) Union of several small urban settlements under one rule
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Lowry’s model of Metropolis (1964) includes two ____________ spatial interaction models.
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Ebenezer Howard suggested the maximum population of ‘Garden City’ as________ persons.
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Match the following City Planning concepts in Group-I with their proponents in Group-II
Group-I:
P Radiant City
Q Conservative surgery
R Broadacre City
S Linear City
Group-II:
1 Clarence Perry
2 Soria-Y-Mata
3 Le Corbusier
4 Patrick Geddes
5 Frank Loyd Wright
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