URBANISM AND URBAN POLICY EXAM
SCRIPT FINAL PAPER 2026 FULL
SOLUTION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● What are the components of comprehensive and long-range
planning? Answer: Sectoral Plans, Regulatory Functions, Analytical
Services, Advisement Services.
●● What does 'Planning from Below' emphasize? Answer: More
inclusivity and focus on communities.
●● What is the world's oldest inhabited capital city? Answer: Damascus,
Syria.
●● What grid plan was Ancient Alexandria built using? Answer:
Hippodamian grid plan.
●● What did the Land Ordinance of 1785 provide for? Answer: The
rectangular land survey of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains,
creating townships and sections.
●● What was the purpose of the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851?
Answer: To create a reservation system.
, ●● What did the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855 establish? Answer: A treaty
signed between the governor of WA territory and Duwamish Chief
Seattle and others.
●● What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do? Answer: Opened up native
lands for public domain to settlers for a nominal fee and five years of
residence.
●● What was the impact of the Dawes Act of 1877? Answer:
Resurveyed reservation lands into land plots granted to American
Indians for agriculture and grazing.
●● What were the three major reform movements that led to Urban
Planning? Answer: Public health/sanitary reform, Settlement
house/housing reform, Parks, playgrounds & open space planning.
●● What did the Public Health/Sanitary Reform lead to? Answer: The
first integrated physical systems and infrastructure investments.
●● What was the focus of the Settlement House Movement? Answer:
Assisting migrants and poor white people to adjust to industrial urban
life.
●● What did the City Beautiful Movement emerge in response to?
Answer: Industrialization and rapid urbanization during the progressive
era (1890s-1920s).
SCRIPT FINAL PAPER 2026 FULL
SOLUTION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● What are the components of comprehensive and long-range
planning? Answer: Sectoral Plans, Regulatory Functions, Analytical
Services, Advisement Services.
●● What does 'Planning from Below' emphasize? Answer: More
inclusivity and focus on communities.
●● What is the world's oldest inhabited capital city? Answer: Damascus,
Syria.
●● What grid plan was Ancient Alexandria built using? Answer:
Hippodamian grid plan.
●● What did the Land Ordinance of 1785 provide for? Answer: The
rectangular land survey of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains,
creating townships and sections.
●● What was the purpose of the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851?
Answer: To create a reservation system.
, ●● What did the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855 establish? Answer: A treaty
signed between the governor of WA territory and Duwamish Chief
Seattle and others.
●● What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do? Answer: Opened up native
lands for public domain to settlers for a nominal fee and five years of
residence.
●● What was the impact of the Dawes Act of 1877? Answer:
Resurveyed reservation lands into land plots granted to American
Indians for agriculture and grazing.
●● What were the three major reform movements that led to Urban
Planning? Answer: Public health/sanitary reform, Settlement
house/housing reform, Parks, playgrounds & open space planning.
●● What did the Public Health/Sanitary Reform lead to? Answer: The
first integrated physical systems and infrastructure investments.
●● What was the focus of the Settlement House Movement? Answer:
Assisting migrants and poor white people to adjust to industrial urban
life.
●● What did the City Beautiful Movement emerge in response to?
Answer: Industrialization and rapid urbanization during the progressive
era (1890s-1920s).
