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naAmMIsB IA 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 CODE: SHP621S
COURSE NAME: Settlement History and Planning
Theory
SESSION: January 2020
PAPER: Theory
DURATION: 3 hours
MARKS: 100
SECOND OPPORTUNITY/SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S) N Korrubel, Contact Details: (061) 207 2570, nkorrubel@nust.na
MODERATOR | AHarris, Contact Details: (061) 207 2361, aharris@nust.na
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer ALL the questions.
Write clearly and neatly.
Number the answers clearly.
Answer in full sentences; not only bullet points or phrases.
PERMISSIBLE MATERIALS: Pens, ruler, pencil & eraser
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 7 PAGES (Including this front page)
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Settlement History and Planning Theory
Question 1
Repeat Gideon Sjoberg’s definition of the term “city”.
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Question 2
Describe the two (2) main requirements for the urban revolution.
(6)
Question 3
Discuss the urban form determinant “Topography”.
(5)
Question 4
Explain the reasons for the scarcity of urban remains in Egypt.
(6)
Question 5
City building under the Pharaohs was generally a quick one stage process, as illustrated by the
partially excavated Tel-el-Amarna.
Highlight the difference, between the workers’ village of Tel-el-Amarna (sketch on the left) and
Kahun (sketch on the right), in respect of their significance to urban planning.
(3)
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Figure 1: Tel-el-Amarna
&
Figure 2: Kahun
(Source: Morris, A.E.J., (1994), History of Urban Form. Before the Industrial Revolutions (third
edition), London, Prentice Hall, p28-29)
Question 6
ANSWER ONLY A ORB OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. Provide a heading to indicate which one
your answer refers to.
A] The two main focus points of the Greek city states were Greece itself and the lonian
coastline of Asia Minor. Explain the term “city state”, also referred to as a “polis”.
(4)
OR
B] Describe the urban form determinant “Aggrandizement”.
(4)
[4]
Question 7
Describe the residential districts and the agora, two of the basic elements of the typical Greek city
plan. (Mark allocation - a minimum of 3 marks are reserved for answers related to the “agora”.)
(8)
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Question 8
Describe the typical imperial urban plan of Roman towns / settlements.
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Question 9
Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain. It was sited in the southwest of the modern city of St
Albans in Hertfordshire, Great Britain.
The urban form of Verulamium, as illustrated in the plan provided, deviates from the typical
imperial urban plan. Report four (4) deviations from the typical imperial urban plan.
(4)
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Figure 3: Verulamium
Source: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1474100/15/Lockyear Ver compressed.pdf
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Question 10
Discuss the two basic types of housing, prevalent in Rome, as one of the urban form determinants
of the ancient city of Rome.
(5)
Question 11
There are five (5) broad categories of towns in medieval Europe, classified on the basis of their
origins. Identify and explain briefly the three (3) categories of the organic growth towns.
(6)
Question 12
Describe “markets” as a typical urban component of the Medieval Towns. Your answer must refer
only to the organic town, not the planned town.
(10)
Question 13
Frederick Law Olmsted, together with his business partner, the architect Calvert Vaux, can still be
regarded as pioneers of a new approach to the urban built environment. Describe some of
Olmsted’s guidelines/suggestions regarding the provision of parks and streets.
(4)
Question 14
a) Ebenezer Howard prided himself on being “the inventor of the Garden City idea” as
illustrated by the quaintly Victorain illustrations and diagrams. Explain the Garden City idea,
the project that he was devoted to.
(10)
b) | Howard’s second project (Welwyn Garden City), demonstrates the limits of the “social city”
concept. Indicate the limits of the physical realisation of Howard’s “social city”.
(4)
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Question 15
Compare Le Corbusier’s Contemporary City/”La Ville Contemporaine” with the Radiant City/“La
Ville Radieuse” and identify two (2) of the main differences between the layouts of these planned
visions.
(4)
Figure 4:
Source: R.T. LeGates & F.Stout (editors), (2011), The City Reader (fifth edition), The Routledge
Urban Reader Series, London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p339
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Figure 5:
Source: Hall, P. (1991), Cities of Tomorrow. An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design
in the Twentieth Century, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, p208
Question 16
Explain briefly Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City Plan.
(8)
TOTAL
THE END
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Included:
Moderator’s report
Supplementary / Second Opportunity question paper
Supplementary / Second Opportunity Memorandum