Exam Details

Subject techniques of planning - i
Paper
Exam / Course bplan
Department
Organization Gujarat Technological University
Position
Exam Date May, 2017
City, State gujarat, ahmedabad


Question Paper

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Seat No.: Enrolment
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BPLAN SEMESTER • EXAMINATION SUMMER 2017
Subject Code: 1025506 Date: 01/06/2017
Subject Name: Techniques of Planning I
Time: 10.30AM to 12.30PM Total Marks: 50
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1

A development plan is designed for the duration of
06
2-5 years
50-60 years
20-30 years
10-20 years
Conventionally, which color is used to represent recreational land use in a development plan
Blue
Purple
Orange
Green
Population census in India is conducted after every
5 years
10 years
20 years
Every year
Sample is a subset of universe
Always
Never
Depends
Only when collecting primary data
1 hectare is how many square kilometres?
10
100
0.1
0.01
Fringe areas along the periphery of urban areas are called
Central business districts
Counter magnets
Peri urban areas
Urban agglomeration

Define following terms: (Any Two)
Floor space index Floor area ratio
Graphical scale
Rural
04
Q.2

What all disciplines are required to be studied to study planning?
05

What are contents of a base map?
05
OR

What is scope and purpose of preparing a base map?
05
Q.3

Write down three differences between a perspective plan and an annual plan.
05

Explain process of planning.
05
OR
Q.3

Why do we need to conduct surveys? What are major types of surveys?
05
2

What is a density survey? How to conduct a tree density survey for an area?
05
Q.4

What is urban? What are various classes of towns as per Census of India?
05

Explain various reasons for people migrating from rural areas to urban areas
05
OR
Q.4

Why do we do sampling? What are various methods of sampling?
05

What is a data? What are its major types and sources?
05
Q.5

How are proposed land use and existing land use different?
05

What is a town planning scheme?
05
OR
Q.5

What are guidelines? How they are different from regulations?
05

How would you differentiate between a neighborhood, cluster and a sector? Explain with an example.
05



Subjects

  • advance remote sensing
  • demography and urbanization
  • disaster risk mitigation & management
  • ecology and environmental management
  • elements of economics
  • evolution of aesthetics, culture and technology
  • geo-informatics for planning
  • gis for planning
  • housing and community planning
  • introduction to regional planning
  • introduction to urban design
  • land development
  • landscape planning and design
  • mass transportation
  • materials and principles of construction
  • metropolitan planning, development & management
  • pharmaceutics-i
  • planning and management of informal sector
  • planning and management of utilities and services
  • planning legislation
  • planning practice - i
  • planning theory - i
  • planning theory – ii
  • professional practice and ethics
  • project formulation, appraisal and management
  • real estate planning and management
  • rural development & management
  • settlement geography
  • settlement sociology
  • specifications, estimation and valuation
  • statistical and quantitative methods in planning - ii
  • surveying & photogrammetry
  • sustainable urban development
  • techniques of planning - i
  • traffic and transportation planning-ii
  • urban and rural governance
  • urban finance
  • urban management-i
  • urban renewal and conservation