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16-Civ-B6 Urban and Regional Planning

Worked solutions to 4 past sittings (2015–2019), 40 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2019

  1. Question 1: Growth Pressure and the Comprehensive Plan — the Chief Engineer's Interest
  2. Question 2: A Contested Brownfield Redevelopment — Site Investigation, Evidence and NIMBY
  3. Question 3: Loss of Prime Agricultural Land at the Urban Edge
  4. Question 4: Two Local Planning Issues — Arguments For and Against
  5. Question 5: Achieving Extensive Citizen Involvement in Large and Small Communities
  6. Question 6: Allied Disciplines — Why Each Matters to Urban and Regional Planning
  7. Question 7: Improving Mobility and Reducing Congestion
  8. Question 8: Population in Planning Studies, and How Future Population Is Estimated
  9. Question 9: Six Contemporary Planning Issues
  10. Question 10: The Draft Plan of Subdivision — Purpose and Content

May 2018

  1. Question 1: Managing a Comprehensive Plan Review with Outside Consultants
  2. Question 2: A Residential Plan of Subdivision on a Contested Urban Fringe
  3. Question 3: Postwar Suburbs — Consequences for Residents and for Communities
  4. Question 4: Measuring Residential and Urban Density
  5. Question 5: Greyfield Redevelopment of Declining Shopping Centres
  6. Question 6: Definitions of Planning Terms
  7. Question 7: Related Subjects and Their Relationship to Community Planning
  8. Question 8: Public Participation in Planning and Environmental Assessment
  9. Question 9: Five Professional Views of the Community’s Physical Environment
  10. Question 10: Zoning By-laws and Their Relationship to the Comprehensive Plan

May 2017

  1. Question 1: Redevelopment of an Abandoned Shopping Centre and Gasoline Station
  2. Question 2: Reviewing the Comprehensive Land Use Plan of a Rapidly Growing City
  3. Question 3: Population in Planning Studies, and How Future Population Is Estimated
  4. Question 4: Transportation Options to Improve Mobility and Reduce Congestion
  5. Question 5: The Draft Plan of Subdivision — Purpose and Required Information
  6. Question 6: Related Planning Issues — Active Transportation, Aging Population, Brownfield Redevelopment, Intensification, Natural Hazards and Wind Power
  7. Question 7: The Loss of Prime Agricultural Land Around Canadian Communities
  8. Question 8: Extensive Citizen Involvement in Preparing Community Plans
  9. Question 9: Related Fields — Architecture, Ecology, Economics, Land Surveying and Landscape Architecture
  10. Question 10: Two Local Planning Issues, Argued Both Ways

May 2015

  1. Question 1: Plan of Subdivision for a 100-Hectare Fringe Property
  2. Question 2: Managing a Comprehensive Land Use Plan Review
  3. Question 3: Net and Gross Residential Density, and Density Measurement
  4. Question 4: Greyfield Redevelopment of Declining Shopping Centres
  5. Question 5: The Zoning By-law — Function, Content, and Relationship to the Plan
  6. Question 6: Definitions of Planning Terms
  7. Question 7: Post-1945 Suburban Development and Its Implications
  8. Question 8: Related Subjects and Their Relationship to Community Planning
  9. Question 9: Public Participation in Planning and Environmental Assessment
  10. Question 10: Disciplinary Viewpoints on the Community’s Physical Environment