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18-Geom-B6 Land Use Planning and Environmental Management: May 2016

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  1. Question 1 The Garden City Concept and Howard’s “Three Magnets”
  2. Question 2 Zoning, its Basis, and Overlay Zoning
  3. Question 3 Growth Management and the Municipal Control Options
  4. Question 4 The Normative Process and the Technical Process in Community Planning
  5. Question 5 The Four Forms of Metropolitan Development (Canadian Examples)
  6. Question 6 Characteristics of Small-Town Development and its Land-Use Patterns
  7. Question 7 Smart Growth and the Keys to Planning Success

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National Exams, May 2016 — 04-Geom-B6, Land Use, Planning & Environmental Management. Three hours; closed book (any Sharp or Casio approved calculator 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. Answers are framed in the Canadian planning context (Statistics Canada census-geography definitions; the Canadian Institute of Planners; provincial planning legislation, official community plans and regional growth strategies), 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; E. Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow (1902; orig. To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, 1898); P. Hall, Cities of Tomorrow (Blackwell) for planning history; I. McHarg, Design with Nature (1969); Statistics Canada, Census Dictionary (population centre, census metropolitan area / census agglomeration definitions); Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) materials; 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).

Answering strategy

This is a pure-essay, closed-book paper: there are no calculations. Each answer is organised by concept rather than by numbered computation steps. Two questions include a figure (Howard’s Three Magnets, Q1; the four metropolitan forms, Q5) because the exam explicitly references a diagram or a set of spatial forms.

End of solutions — 04-Geom-B6, May 2016. All seven questions solved (the exam requires any five); each answer is framed in the Canadian planning context per the Engineers Canada / EGBC syllabus.