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".
Urbanization –is it a curse or blessing? Explain your answer with example in both cases.
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.
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.
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.
Why policies are important in socio-economic development perspective? Explain behavioral as well as structural views of policy formulation.
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The 2016 CSS Town Planning & Urban Management paper set by the FPSC. Question wording only; questions marked “Not yet checked” have not been compared with the official paper yet.
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