MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS _ URBAN DESIGN _ AR8704 _ 2017 REGULATIONS _ 4A & 4B

FACULTY INCHARGE _ S. HARINI.

1. Urban design is study of

A. Built Form & UN-built form

B. Park & Street
C. Transport Networks
D. All the above

2. _______ are defined by their physical dimension and characteristic as well as size and
scale.

A. Public space
B. Street
C. Paths
D. Landscape

3. The most prominent aspect of urban design is

A. Articulation of space
B. Construction of space
C. Linear form of space
D. Incohesiveness

4. A ___________________ is the creation of compact, walkable, mixed-use communities

centered around high quality transit system
A. Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
B. Planned Unit Development (PUD)
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above

5. The advantages of Transit Oriented Development are

A. Higher quality of life & Reduced car accidents and injuries

B. Better places to live, work, and play & Reduced traffic congestion and driving
C. Increased transit ridership & Reduced pollution to a great extent
D. All the above

6. ___________has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
A. Sustainable development
B. Ribbon development
C. Cluster Development
D. Cohesive development

7. Paths are
A. Concentration of activity
B. Proximity to strong elements
C. gives better sense of bearings
D. All the above
8. Which of the following are the benefits of PPP?
A. Innovation and increased efficiency
B. Better viability
C. Inflow of private risk and sharing of project risks
D. All the above

9. Which of the following principles of TOD are helping to have standard for designing
better streets & better cities
A. Walk, Cycle and Connect
B. Transit, Mix and Shift
C. Density and Compact
D. All the above

10. The balance of open space to built form, and the nature and extent of subdividing an
area into smaller parcels or blocks.

A. Urban Structure
B. Urban Grain
C. Height & Massing
D. None of the Above

11. The relationship of buildings to the site, street and neighbouring buildings and the
architectural expression.

A. Detail & Material

B. Height & Massing
C. Facade & Interface
D. All the above

12. Which of the following is defined as the size, bulk and perception of a building and
spaces.

A. Scale
B. Urban Form
C. Public Realm
D. Character

13. Which of the following is an urban hearth area?

A. Mesopotamia
B. Nile Valley
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

14. Who considered the city to be a rhizome where citizens could circulate freely?

A. Tony Garnier
B. Ebenezer Howard
C. Clarence Arthur Perry
D. Aldo Rossi
15. In medieval city, which is denoted as the symbol of sharp distinction between country
and city?
A. The Fortress
B. The Wall
C. The Charter
D. Basilica

16. Which of the following can be seen as the beginning of regional planning and
decentralization?

A. Le Corbusier's Radiant city

B. Howard's Garden City
C. Picturesque city
D. None of the above

17. What does 'Prasada' denote in the city planning?

A. Planning of big buildings

B. Planning of forts
C. Village planning
D. None of the above

18. Which of the following cities is known as the 'Athens of the East'?
A. Madurai
B. Srirangam
C. Kumbakonam
D. Bhubaneshwar

19. Generic city - without proper planning principles and urban development control is
A. Incoherence
B. Cohesive city
C. Urban Sprawl
D. Urban Blight

20.The demolition of an existing building and its replacement by a new building is

A. Slum Clearance
B. Rehabilitation
C. Redevelopment
D. Conservation

21. What attracts the people in parks?

A. Seating arrangements
B. Location, Sun & Aesthetics
C. Amount of space and its shapes
D. All the above

22. In Roman mythology a _______________________was the protective spirit of a place.

A. Jane Jacobs
B. Genius luci
C. Kevin Lynch
D. Aldo Rossi
23. Who is the following person linked to "The city as an artifact: building control in modern
Paris"
A. Gorden Cullen
B. Whilliam Whyte
C. Norma Evenson
E. L. Wright

24. A compact, pedestrian-oriented development with a mix of uses, traditional buildings

and streets, convenient services, and well-defined public space is
A. PUD (Planned Unit Development)
B. TOD (Transit Oriented Development)
C. TND (Traditional Neighbourhood Development)
D. None of the above

25. Jacobs argued for

A. Cities as Ecosystems
B. Mixed use Development & The case for Higher Density
C. Bottom – up Community planning
D. All the above

26. San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena Italy of neo rationalism was designed by
A. Aldo Rossi
B. Patrick Geddess
C. Doxiadis
D. Ebenezer Howard

27. The visual character of a street space that results from the combination of street width,
curvature, paving, street furniture, plantings and the surrounding built form and detail is
A. Landscape
B. Streetscape
C. Waterscape
D. Townscape

28. The _____________________comprises spaces and places that are open and freely
accessible to everyone, regardless of their economic or social conditions. These spaces can
include streets, laneways and roads, parks, public plazas, waterways and foreshores

A. Private realm
B. Public realm
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above

29. Serial Vision is the concept used by ______________________ in urban design

A. Whilliam Whyte
B. Kevin Lynch
C. Gorden Cullen
D. Jane Jacobs

30. ________________ a development design technique that concentrates buildings in

specific areas on a site to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, common
open space, and preservation of environmental resources; units are grouped on smaller
 parcels than zoning would otherwise permit, but the average density for the tract is
maintained
A. Cluster Development
B. Ribbon Development
C. Cohesive Development
D. Sustainable Development

31. The urban equivalent of the Blob: an area formed by multiple towns and cities merging
together to create one district is
A. Corridor Development
B. Conurbation
C. Coving
D. Continuous Accessible Path

32. The repair and improvement of existing structurally sound property is

A. Slum Clearance
B. Redevelopment
C. Rehabilitation
D. Conservation

33. ____________________ is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and

management of public spaces
A. Nodes
B. Place-making
C. Square
D. Central Business District

34. Which of the following the pros of urban sprawl?

A. Less Expensive Land
B. Lower Rent Apartments
C. Lifestyle Preference
D. All the above

35. _______________ is a term primarily referring to a city's commercial, cultural and often
the historical, political and geographic heart, and is often synonymous with its central
business district (CBD). It is marked by a cluster of tall buildings, cultural institutions and
the convergence of rail transit and bus lines
A. Sub centre
B. Downtown
C. Satellite Town
D. CBD

36. __________is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their
formation and transformation
A. Urban morphology
B. Place-making
C. Ekistics
D. None of the above

37. "Death and life of Great American Cities" written by

A. Gorden Cullen
B. Doxiadis
C. Genius Luci
D. Jane Jacobs

38. ________________ concerned with the intrinsic quality of the various subdivisions of
the environment, and start with the great landscape categories of metropolis.
A. Place Making
B. Serial Vision
C. Content
D. Focal Point

39. Which one is the positive impact of globalization?

A. Job Opportunities and Newer Technology
B. Quality Products and supply of raw materials
C. Higher standard of living and Foreign collaboration
D. All the above

40.Strong boundaries enhance the imageability of ______

A. Edges
B. Districts
C. Paths
D. All the above

41. _________________ is a center of activity in an urban space but distinguished from

landmark by virtue of its function
A. District
B. Path
C. Edges
D. Nodes

42. Classification of streets as based on function is

A. Minor & Major Arterial Streets
B. Collector Streets
C. Freeways
D. All the above

43. Pedestrian Behaviour and city dynamics is the principle framed by

A. Whilliam Whyte
B. Jane Jabobs
C. Le Corbusier
D. Gorden CulleN

44.A person's perception of the world is known as a ________________.

A. Floor Plans
B. Drawings to the scale
C. Mental map
D. All the above

45. "A process by which people are enabled to become actively and genuinely involved in
defining the issues of concern to them, in making decisions about factors that affect
their lives, in formulating and implementing policies, in planning, developing and
delivering services and in taking action to achieve change" is
_______________________________
A. Community Participation
B. Public Participation
C. Citizen Active & Passive Participation
D. All the above

46. Which of the following the cons of urban sprawl?

A. Loss of undeveloped land
B. Automobile dependent
C. Higher Air Pollution
D. All the above

47. ______________________ is the city liberated from the captivity of centre, from the
straitjacket of identity

A. The generic city

B. The urban sprawl
C. The urban blight
D. All the above

48. _____________is similar to concentric one however unlike rings, the development
develops concentric to the Central Business District in a radial pattern.

A. The Sectoral Sprawl

B. The Concentric Urban Sprawl
C. he Axial Sprawl
D. The Multiple Nuclei Sprawl

49. ______________________ can be described as the "landscape interface between town

and country", or also as the transition zone where urban and rural uses mix and often
clash

A. The rural–urban fringe

B. Urban blight
C. Urban Sprawl
D. None of the above

50. The degree to which an area loves its pedestrians is called as ______

A. Walkability
B. Transferability
C. Imageability
D. None of the above

51. ________________ is a restriction on the use of land or buildings to protect an

important view or scenic corridor
A. Scenic Corridor
B. Serial Vision
C. Vista
D. None of the above

52. Super important buildings that stand at the end of a road, so you can’t escape the view
is
A. Terminating Vista
B. Incomplete view
C. Serial Vision
D. None of the above

53. How is 'Surat, Hooghly and Cambay' of Mughal Indian cities classified as?

A. Head quarters
B. Market towns
C. Port Towns
D. Ancient towns

54. What is the plan for Jaipur city, Rajasthan based on?
A. 4 square mandalas
B. 9 square mandalas
C. 16 square mandalas
D. 61 square mandalas

55. In which of the following Mughal cities, were the important structures oriented along
the cardinal axis?
A. Fatehpur Sikri
B. Lahore
C. Shahjahanabad
D. Kolkata

56. The author of the book "What time is this place?" is

A. Kevin Lynch
B. Gorden Cullen
C. Jane Jacobs
D. Aldo Rossi

57. _________________ is the idea of the town as a place of assembly, of social intercourse,
of meeting,
A. Focal point
B. Edge
C. District
D. All the above

58. Who is regarded as the first town planner and inventor of the orthogonal urban layout?

A. Hippodamus
B. John Friedmann
C. Aristotle
D. Kevin Lynch

59. In which part of the typical Greek city is the acropolis located ?
E. Lower part
F. Central part
G. Upper part
H. Plains
60. Houses in medieval towns are built up of?
A. Wood
B. Stone
C. Brick
D. Timber

61. Which of the following is the concept of a plan for a city with the dictates of 'rational'
and 'moral' objective?
A. Medieval City
B. Ideal City
C. Modern City
D. Renaissance City

62. Generic city - with proper planning principles and urban development control is
A. Incoherence
B. Cohesive city
C. Urban Outskirts
D. Urban Fringe

63.Which one of the following helps you to get image of the city mentioned by Kevin Lynch
A. Nodes
B. Paths and Focal Points
C. Districts and Edges
D. All the above

64. An approach to environmental perception / cognition and place-making is coined by

A. Genius Loci
B. Kevin Lynch
C. Gorden Cullen
D. Patrick Geddess

65. According to Rossi, _______________________ were places where architecture ends

and world of imagination begins
A. Shopping Malls
B. Squares
C. Theatres
D. All the above

66. What may dictate an urban design undertaking?

A. Appeal & Function

B. Analysis & Implementation
C. Masterplan
D. None of these

67. Which of the following is an Objectives of Urban Design as a Discipline

A. Functional Efficiency
B. Aesthetics only For Building
C. Networking
D. All the above
68. The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities may be termed as

A. Urban Fabric
B. Urban Sprawl
C. Urbanization
D. Slum Clearance

69. ______________ are new redevelopment strategies comprised of a series of projects

that drive and guide urban development
A. Urban sprawls
B. Urban catalysts
C. Urban renewal
D. Urban blights

70. What is a substandard, multifamily dwelling called?

A. Hovel
B. Manor
C. Tenement
D. Havelis

71. Parks, superblocks, cul-de-sacs and pedestrian only pathways are the elements of?
A. Radburn city
B. Radiant city
C. Garden city
D. City Industriale

72. What is the scale of the apartment houses in Le Corbusier's Radiant city?
A. 40m high
B. 50m high
C. 60m high
D. 5m high

73. Which of the following cities tend to focus more on architectural and urban design?
A. Ideal cities
B. Modern cities
C. Postmodern cities
D. Ancient Cities

74. Which city had Acropolis and Agora as two distinctive functional zones?
A. Ellora
B. Greek
C. Rome
D. None of the above

75.Which one of the following is the type of PPP?

A. Design and Build
B. Build operate and transfer
C. Build own operate
D. All the above
76. Puducherry city is the example for
A. Cohesive Indian City
B. Incoherence Indian City
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above

77. _______________ is a policy used in urban planning to retain a “belt” of the natural
environment around urban areas, because if there’s still a tiny strip of green we can
keep pretending we’re not destroying the Earth.
A. Green view
B. Green Belt
C. Ribbon Belt
D. Ribbon Development
78. The physical form of towns and cities is termed as

A. Urban Fabric
B. Urban Realm
C. Urban Form
D. Density

79. Characteristics of the large urban blocks which isolate users of the space.

A. Fine Grain
B. Coarse Grain
C. Smooth Grain
D. None of the above

80. ______ is required to deal with the breadth of urban design issues and activities.

A. Policy Formulation
B. Collaboration
C. Analysis
D. Design Inputs

81. Which of the following increases the public costs and eventually adds to taxes paid by
citizens

A. Shortage of houses
B. Overcrowding
C. Urban Sprawl
D. Toll Fees

82. Urban Heat islands occur on the surface of ___

A. Stratosphere
B. Atmosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. All the above

83. An action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state
A. Urban Crime
B. Slum Settlement
C. Employment
D. None of the above

84. Agricultural laborers, farmers, workers of sugar mills, rice sellers, cotton ginning units
and ice factories are

A. Disguise Employment
B. Industrial Employment
C. Seasonal Employment
D. Unemployment

85. The settlement on land, especially public or unoccupied land, without right or title.

A. Rapid Settlement
B. Squatter Settlement
C. Mass Settlement
D. Slums

86. This leads to more water being wasted and squandered for pointless reasons and leads
to further escalations of the crisis.

A. Groundwater over drafting

B. Overuse and misuse of water
C. Lack of infrastructure
D. Rainwater Harvesting

87. What is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation
called?
A. Urban ecology
B. Urban morphology
C. Urban geography
D. Urban Density

88. What is the geometrical structure formed by spatial distribution of urban elements
called?
A. Urban structure
B. Urban fabric
C. Urban texture
D. Articulation

89. Which of the following is an example of fine urban grain?

A. London
B. Newyork
C. Toronto
D. Sahara Desertland

90. What is a central precinct of the city dedicated to political and religious activities called?
A. City wall
B. Citadel
C. Tombs
D. None of the above

91. First planner and developed the gridiron.

A. hippodamus of rome
B. hippodamus of miletus
C. hippodamus of lutos
D. hippodamus of greek

92. A locale with a sizable agglomeration of people having characteristics of an urban being. 
A. province
B. urban
C. metro
D. city

93. The orderly arrangement of urban streets and public spaces.

A. urban design
B. zoning
C. city planning
D. urban planning

94. The main reason why the nomadic existence of early man metamorphosed to village
settlement and later to the birth of cities.
A. agricultural surplus
B. insula
C. true bounded city
D. sustainable development
95. A 20th-century problem emanating from rapid urbanization of areas surrounding a city
that eats up the remaining adjacent rural open spaces. 
A. advocacy planning
B. urban sprawl
C. sustainable land use planning
D. greenbelt

96. Author of “tomorrow: a peaceful path to social reform” and main proponent of the
garden cities
A. robert owen
B. ebenezer howard
C. james oglethorpe
D. soria y mata

97. The first garden city designed by raymund unwin and barry parker:
A. welwyn
B. hampstead
C. letchworth
D. windsor

98. Frank Lloyd Wright’s project proposal that would allot one acre of land to each
American family
A. le contemporaine
B. unite d habitation
C. broadacres
D. acreville

99. Phrase used to characterize development that meets the needs of the present
generation without compromising the needs of future generations.
A. advocacy planning
B. sustainable land use planning
C. sustainable development
D. agricultural surplus

100. Who believed that planning should first start at the micro level and thus
designed the “neighborhood unit”
A. clarence perry and clarence stein
B. ebenezer howard
C. frank lloyd wright & louis Sullivan
D. louis kahn
101. Among lynch’s elements of the city, these are defined as intensive foci from
which the observer is travelling
A. paths
B. edges
C. nodes
D. districts

102. What were the main characteristics of the Indus valley civilization?
A. town planning
B. drainage system
C. both a and b
D. none of these

103. The concept of 'serial vision' implies that urban experience is one of a series of
revelations and should be designed from the point of view of a moving person. Who
proposed this theory?

A. willium whyte
B. jan gehl
C. christian norberg schulz
D. gorden cullen

104. Which of the following is not a of greek planning?

A. Stoas
B. Agoras
C. the great bath
D. theaters

105. What is the theory that defines development taking place around the cbd in a
circular ring pattern.

A. concentric urban sprawl

B. sectoral growth
C. axial sprawl
D. multiple nuclei sprawl

106. Genius Loci' is a theory derived from the historical architectural movement of
phenomenology. What does the theory postulate?
A. blend with the nature
B. spirit of places
C. creation of meaningful spaces
D. all of the above
107. Urban catalysts are new redevelopment strategies comprising a series of
projects that drive and guide urban development. name the project that follows this
theory.
A. superkilen copenhagen
B. pondicherry
C. new raipur
D. milwaulkee

108. A set of theories and techniques are used to study how street networks are
connected through mapping the spatial configurations and accessibility of open spaces
and street patterns. What is this type of analysis called?

A. space syntax
B. accessibility analysis
C. ped-shed
D. legibility analysis

109. Full form of UHI

A. urban health informatics

B. urban health initiative
C. urban heat island
D. urban humanities initiative

110. Elements of the city defined by? 

A. aldo ross
B. willium whyte
C. gordon cullen
D. kevin lynch

111. TOD is the creation of compact, walkable, mixed-use communities centered on

high quality transit systems. what does tod refer to? 

A. transit oriented development

B. tactical operations division
C. transitional ownership document
D. transit operations development

112. Who proposed the linear city that would serve as a satellite to the city of Madrid

A. jose marseilles
B. diego san andres
C. soria y mata
D. felipe selecios

113. Which city was surrounded by a moat as one of its characteristics? *

A. roman
B. medieval
C. gothic
D. renaissance

114. Jane Jacobs wrote the book named

A. a scientific autobiography
B. city: rediscovering the center
C. the concise townscape
D. the death and life of great american cities

115. Which of the following is a policy of urban renewal?

A. reduce,reuse,recycle
B. slum clearance
C. mixed use development
D. integration of transport investment with land use planning

116. Which of the following cities in South Korea underwent urban revitalization?

A. cheonggyecheon
B. busan
C. daegu
D. incheon

117. The theory given by aldo rossi which allows the people to connect with the
memory
A. mental mapping
B. collective memory
C. serial vision
D. all of the above

118. A concourse is a place where____________________________:- 

A. outdoor and indoor environment meet
B. roadways and pathways meet
C. trails and pathways meet
D. roadways and airways meet

119. Who termed "here and there"

A. jane jacobs
B. aldo rossi
C. thomas gordon cullen
D. kevin lynch

120. Famous work of aldo rossi

A. the exploding metropolis
B. teatro del mondo
C. tepoztlán
D. megalopolis

121. An architectural form consisting of an open porch, a vestibule, and a large hall
with a central hearth and at throne
A. tholos
B. Parthenon
C. Megaron
D. stadium

122. Rem khoolas invented or coined the theory

A. street town
B. satellite town
C. the generic city
D. the modern city

123. Which city was developed during the mughal period

A. calcutta
B. bombay
C. agra
D. gujarat

124. Which city is designed based on the prastara principles.

A. jaipur
B. jodhpur
C. dausa
D. amber

125. The city of chandigarh was designed based on the concept of

A. radburn concept
B. neighborhood unit concept
C. garden city concept
D. radiant city concept
126. Who is the first generation modernist?
A. walter gropius
B. i.m.pei
C. le corbusier
D. louis sullivan

127. The rejection of city or destroying of cities are known as _____

A. massive urbanization
B. depression
C. anti- urbanization
D. civilization

128. Who proposed multiple nuclei model 

A. harris and ullman
B. homer hoyt
C. e.w. burgess
D. peter mann

129. The city beautiful movement was initiated by

A. daniel burnham
B. ebenizer howard
C. augustus
D. frederick law olmsted

130. To dwell means to belong to a place – expressed by

A. willium whyte
B. jan gehl
C. norberg-schulz
D. colin rowe

131. an example of medieval Indian city is

A. Jaipur
B. Chennai
C. Ahmedabad
D. Raipur

132. Which of the following is not a colonial city form

A. Chennai
B. Kolkata
C. Mumbai
D. Jodhpur

133. Construction of Mughal and British style of architecture with the locally
available materials in Indian context is called as _______
A. Chalukyan architecture
B. Medieval Architecture
C. Colonial Architecture
D. None of the above
134. Jaipur is an example for
A. Nandyavarta planning
B. Prastara Planning
C. Karmukha Planning
D. Swastika Planning

135. Mohallas are the features of

A. Harappa
B. Rakhigarhi
C. Shahjahanabad
D. Dholavira

136. Minaret is a classical element of

A. Medieval city
B. Temple city
C. Ancient city
D. Mughal city

137. Aqueducts are found in

A. Rome
B. Greece
C. France
D. Germany

138. Climate tile is an example of

A. Reduce Recycle and Reuse
B. Sustainable living
C. Green architecture
D. None of the above

139. Which of the following is an example of sustainable city

A. Copenhagen
B. Brussels
C. Paris
D. Venice

140. SUDS means

A. Sustainable urban dividend system
B. Sustainable Urban Drainage System
C. Systematic Urban Design schemes
D. Strategic Urban Design Solutions

141. Which of the following is not an Example of TOD

A. Ahmedabad
B. Naya Raipur
C. Delhi
D. Chandigarh

142. City Industriale is proposed by

A. Le Corbusier
B. F. L. Wright
C. Tony Garnier
D. Ebenezer Howard

143. The City which has reached its maximum growth

A. Singapore
B. Kyoto
C. Detroit
D. Chennai

144. Example of Urban Conservation

A. Puducherry
B. Madurai
C. Trichy
D. Srirangam

145. Which of the following is not a type of Urban Renewal

A. Redevelopment
B. Conservation
C. Rehabilitation
D. Urban Fringe

146. GIS means

A. Geographical Information System
B. Geological Instructional Survey
C. Geographical Indian studies
D. None of the above

147. Which of the following is not a city based on grid planning

A. SaN Francisco
B. Manhattan
C. Mosco
D. Chandigarh

148. This period is called as the dark ages in the world’s History
A. Renaissance Period
B. Medieval Period
C. Prehistoric Period
D. Ancient period

149. One of the below mentioned did not happen during industrialization. Which is
it?
A. Invention of Gunpowder
B. Mass Production
C. Invention of Steam Engine
D. Invention of stone weapons

150. Who proposed the concept of Zoning in Urban Design?

A. Tony Garnier
B. Colin Rowe
C. Noberg Schulz
D. Antonio Sant'elia