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ISP620S - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIETY AND PLANNING - 2ND OPP - JAN 2020 |
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NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY
OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND SPATIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND SPATIAL PLANNING
QUALIFICATION: Bachelor of Town and Regional Planning
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BTAR
LEVEL: 6
COURSE: Introduction to Society and Planning | COURSE CODE: ISP620S
SESSION: January 2020
PAPER: Theory
DURATION: 3 Hours
MARKS: 100
SECOND OPPORTUNITY / SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S): | Mr. A.C. Harris/ (061)2072361 / aharris@nust.na
MODERATOR: | Ms. K.M. Asino / (061)2/ 0ka7si2 no@2nu4st4.na
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer ALL the questions.
2. Write clearly and neatly.
3. Number the answers clearly.
4. Answer in full sentences; not only bullet points or phrases.
PERMISSIBLE MATERIALS: Pens, ruler, pencil and eraser.
THIS MEMORANDUM CONSISTS OF 5 PAGES (including this front page)
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Introduction to Society and Planning
Question 1
Explain the following concepts/terms:
(a) Utopia
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(b) Growth pole
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Question 2
In the mid-1850s Barcelona was on the brink of collapse.
(a) Briefly describe the living conditions in the city during this period.
(4)
(b) “Modernism” started as a planning movement in 19" Century when cities were rapidly
transforming. Describe four (4) characteristics that would best describe the modernist
movement.
(4)
[8]
Question 3
During the 1980s a new school of thought attacked established growth patterns of modernist
planning as outdated.
(a) Briefly discuss five (5) principles of the New Urbanism.
(10)
(b) Provide four (4) failures that New Urbanism has been criticised for.
(4)
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Question 4
In his TEDx talk on The Walkable City, Jeff Speck outlines his theory on how to get people to walk.
Briefly discuss the four (4) elements that need to simultaneously be addressed to ensure a
walkable city.
[8]
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Introduction to Society and Planning
Question 5
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Placemaking can be described as strengthening the connection between people and places they
share.
Discuss the following placemaking principles:
(a) Form supports function
(3)
(b) Triangulation
(3)
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Question 6
(a) Describe the two senses by which citizenship can be defined.
(4)
(b) Describe the dual character of citizenship.
(4)
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Question 7
In The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs (1961) introduced ground-breaking
ideas about how cities function, evolve and fail, and maintained that diversity is a key condition in
city building.
Briefly discuss the four (4) conditions she promoted to generate exuberant diversity.
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Question 8
Name the three (3) market failures that may lead to excessive spatial growth of cities AND
provide one (1) remedy for each of these failures.
[6]
Question 9
Provide two (2) features for each of a formal, functional and planning region to demonstrate the
difference between them.
[6]
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Introduction to Society and Planning
Question 10
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In 1966 John Friedmann developed the core-periphery four-stage model as a representation of
the emergence of regional development, which works along with the development of
transportation.
Distinguish between the following concepts, using the diagram of the model below as a reference:
The core-periphery model of regional development
xB
upward —
(dn transition region
—tLy grovet
core
region
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Key
» flows of labour, capital, goods
and commodities
(a) Spread and backwash effects
(4)
(b) An upward transition region and resource frontier region
(6)
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Question 11
Walter Christaller’s Central Place Theory is widely appreciated and used as a framework for
understanding regional structure and a model for future planning— but it has its own limitations.
Briefly explain some of the criticisms the theory has received.
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Introduction to Society and Planning
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Question 12
According to Hudson (1979), each of the five most important traditions of planning (summed up
in an acronym SITAR) has its own internal consistency, self-reinforcing network of methods, data
requirements, professional skills and working styles.
Briefly explain what is meant by advocacy planning.
[4]
Question 13
Social movements do not just happen; social unrest gives rise to them.
Using the Landless People’s Movement as an example, briefly describe the four stages social
movements pass through.
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TOTAL
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THE END
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