Architecture and Planning
GATE AR topic:regional-settlement-planning PYQs
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Questions 21–30 of 38. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 32
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Match the examples in Group I with their corresponding typologies in Group II.
Group I: (P) Navi Mumbai; (Q) Hissar; (R) Greater Mumbai; (S) Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
Group II: (1) Counter Magnet; (2) Urban Agglomeration; (3) Satellite Town; (4) University Town; (5) Investment Region.
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Match the proponents in Group I with the corresponding theories in Group II.
Group I | Group II |
|---|---|
(P) James Q Wilson and George K. Kelling | (1) Creative Class |
(Q) Sherry Arnstein | (2) Right to City |
(R) Henry Lefebvre | (3) Drive-in Culture |
(S) Richard Florida | (4) Ladder of Citizen Participation |
| (5) Broken Window |
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Match the Artists/Scientists in Group I with their corresponding contributions in Group II.
Group I | Group II |
|---|---|
(P) Robert Park and Louis Wirth | (1) Poverty Map |
(Q) Jacob August Riis | (2) Cholera Map |
(R) Charles Booth | (3) Tenement Shelter Photography |
(S) John Snow | (4) Urban Ethnography |
| (5) Underground Sewer Systems |
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In the conceptual diagram of the city given below, P, Q, R, and S refer to urban patterns. Among the choices given below, the correct association is

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The law of Primate City was first proposed by
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In the European Union which constitutes the cities namely, London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich and Milan, lie within a linear megalopolitan zone known as
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As per URDPFI Guidelines 2015, Government of India, choose the correct hierarchy of plans from higher to lower order.
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‘Formulation of GIS based master plan’ is a sub-scheme of
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Match the characteristics in Group I with the type of settlements in Group II as given in URDPFI Guidelines 2015, Government of India.
Group I: (P) Zones of transition from rural to urban land uses located between the outer limits of urban and regional centres and rural environment; (Q) Towns having potential for investment and development; identified on the basis of their inter-aerial relationship with the regional nodal centre; (R) Settlements that are growing sub-nodal centres but located out of the direct functionally linked areas of the growth node / nodal centre in the region; (S) Located near or within reasonable distance, well connected by transportation route of the growth node or metropolitan city and dependent on growth node largely for employment.
Group II: (1) Counter-Magnets; (2) Satellite Towns; (3) Peri-Urban Areas; (4) Priority Towns; (5) Statutory Towns
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The term ‘Necropolis’ refers to
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