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18-Geom-B6 Land Use Planning and Environmental Management: May 2013

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  1. Question 1 Definitions of Ten Land-Development Terms
  2. Question 2 The Main Steps in Land-Use Planning
  3. Question 3 The Planners’ Principles of Community Land Use
  4. Question 4 The Normative and Technical Planning Processes
  5. Question 5 The Four Forms of Metropolitan Development (Canadian Examples)
  6. Question 6 Characteristics of Small-Town Development and Land-Use Patterns
  7. Question 7 Key Participants in the Three Phases of Community Planning

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National Exams, May 2013 — 04-Geom-B6, Land Use, Planning & Environmental Management. Three hours; closed book (approved Sharp/Casio calculators permitted). Format: seven questions of equal value (20 marks each); the paper directs that answering any five (5) of the seven constitutes a complete exam (100%), and the first five as they appear in the answer book are marked. All seven questions are solved in full below so the set serves as a complete study resource. Content is framed in the Canadian planning context (the Canadian Institute of Planners definition of planning; provincial planning legislation and official community plans; Canadian metropolitan and small-town examples), consistent with the Engineers Canada / EGBC syllabus for this exam.

Reference texts: G. Hodge & D. Gordon, Planning Canadian Communities: An Introduction to the Principles, Practice and Participants (Nelson, current ed.) — the standard Canadian reference for this exam code; Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), definition and code-of-professional-conduct materials; World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (the Brundtland Report, 1987); R. T. T. Forman & M. Godron, Landscape Ecology (Wiley, 1986); C. A. Perry, The Neighborhood Unit (1929); provincial planning statutes (e.g., Ontario Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13; British Columbia Local Government Act) and representative official community plans / regional growth strategies (Metro Vancouver, the Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan, the National Capital greenbelt).