Planning Questions

Group 1:

1. In urban planning process, this is important to know if the project is economically and
practically ________
Ans: (feasible)

2. A variety of demands from the widest possible range of users, amenities and social
groups
Ans: (Mix use and Form)

3. is the design of towns and cities, streets and spaces. It is the collaborative and
multidisciplinary process of shaping the physical setting for life or the art of making
places.
Ans: (Urban Design)

4. This term refers to a place's pervasive sense of place and is used in urban design.
Ans: (Genius Loci)

5. It has been constructed in such a way that it canbe read as a single coherent narrative,
tracing the design of aproject from first principles to specific features, but at the sametime it
can be dipped into on a topic-by-topic basis.
Ans: (Compendium)

6. One of the vision of urban planning gives solution, and big ________ to a city.
Ans: (Transformation)

7. This are the intrinsic resources of the site to create more sustainable development.
Ans: (Natural Resources )

8. what is the first part of the structure of the compendium

Ans: (appreciating the context)

9. it is part of the structure of compendium which is the Managing of the design process to
ensure that a commitment to quality continues beyond completion of construction
Ans: (Implementation and Delivery)

10. careful integration with the landscape or surrounding built environment.

Ans: (Connection)
 Group 2

1. It involves the collection, treatment and distribution of waste water and sewage from
homes and business.
Answer: (Sewage Treatment Plant)

2. What are the three components of Urban Water Management?

Answer: (Water supply, Storm Water Mamagement, and Sewage Treatment Plant)

3. It ensure a reliable and sustainable supply of water for urban residents and business.
Answer: (Urban Water Management)

4. It is the vital resource for human activities?

Answer: (Water )

5. Local Parks are ideally placed within how many minutes of walk?
Answer: (3 to 5 minutes)

6. __________ are not only served to plan bigger projects, but also create connections
or linkages to existing urban areas, other locations, and the larger landscape.
ANSWER: (OPEN SPACE NETWORKS)

7. It is the planting, maintenance, care and protection of tree populations in urban

settings- role of trees is an vital component of city planning and urban infrastructure.
ANSWER: (URBAN FORESTRY)

8. It consists of the geographic features that mark, or are characteristic of, a particular
area.
Answer: (Landscape)

9. _______ is the material of building and where transportation networks, utilities

networks, and shelter can be created.
ANSWER: (HARDSCAPE)

10. Hardscape can be made ______, Decorative, as well as Functional, but its function
is what makes it predominant in Urban Design.
Answer: (Sculptural)
Group 3

1. What continent follows the 10 Axioms of Principles of Intelligent Urbanism?

(Ans. Asia)

2. In land-use planning, What type of zonings are retail stores and office buildings falls
under?
(Ans. Commercial)

3. What are the 3 Types of Urban Planning Based on Scale?

(Ans: Regional planning, City planning, Neighborhood planning)

4. In new urbanism, by encouraging the population to ride bikes, walk, or take the train this
strategies can reduce _______.
(Ans. traffic congestion)

5. Who is the founder of Western city planning and constructed the new city of Alexandria.
(Ans. Hippodamus of Miletus)

6. This type of planning Focuses on the development and coordination of land use,
infrastructure, and policies across a larger geographical area.
(Ans: Regional Planning)

7. In the Indus Valley Civilization, These early towns' streets are possibly the first instances
of intentionally designed and controlled towns and were frequently paved and set out at
right angles in a grid layout, with a hierarchy of streets ranging from grand boulevards to
residential lanes.
(Ans: Harappa and Mohenjo-daro)

8. An urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating

walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.
(Ans: New Urbanism)

9. What Type of Planning that is also called the development plan, core strategy, or
comprehensive plan.
(Ans: Strategic plan)

10. A type of Planning that has a systematic process of designing, developing, and
managing the physical and technical systems and facilities necessary to support the
functioning and growth of urban areas.
(Ans: Infrastructure Planning)
 Quiz 1

1. French Equivalent of Plaza

Answer: Piazza

2. A Spanish Word describe an open urban public space

Answer: Plaza

3. _____ Was the most important gathering place in a Greek City.

Answer: Agora

4. _____ A System Connect the parts of cities and help shape them and enable movement
throughout the city.
Answer: Transport

5. _____ concerned with the arrangement, appearance and function of the sub-urbs rural,
and cities
Answer: Urban Design

6. _____ It denotes’ a deliminated surface charachterized by an extended area lined with

buildings on either side.
Answer: Streets

7. _____ An Urban Theorist that was able to establish a notation of city elements that
matched people perception.
Answer: Kevin Lynch

8. _____Boundaries. They can be either Real or Perceived. These are walls, buildings, and
shorelines, curbstone, streets, overpasses, etc.
Answer: Edges

9. _____ These are the streets, sidewalks, trails, canals, railroads, and other channels in
which people trave.
Answer: Paths

10. _____ Public institutions such as libraries, museums, town halls, trains, bus stations,
hospitals, and post offices.
Answer: Internal Public Space

11. _____ Located in athens and was a religious precint located on one of the hills of the
city.
Answer: Acropolis
12. _____ a pieces of land that lie between private landholdings such as public squares,
street, stretches, rivers. open spaces lie between the private land holdings.
Answer: External Public Space
13. ______ Greenpart of the city that weaves throughout in the form of urban parks, street
trees, plants, flowers, and bodies of water.
Answer: Landscape

14. Describe the structure of compendium accordingly and give thorough explanation based
on your group activity
Answer: Essay

15. _____ Areas of Greenery in or near the city- Natural park like.
Answer: Open Space

16. _____ Public Spaces within Cities, created through arrangements of buildings and other
built.
Answer: Urban Space