PUP 301 Exam 1 Question and
answers already passed 2025/2026
Difficult to define, lack obvious solutions. and are linked to other issues - correct answer ✔Wicked
problems
Greco-Roman towns grew organically - correct answer ✔False
An US document that fails to outline the power of local government - correct answer ✔US Constituion
Social costs of production not reflected in the consumer price - correct answer ✔Externalities
What do safeguard planners try to protect - correct answer ✔public health, safety, and welfare
Planners decisions involved choices about these - correct answer ✔Values
Recent arguments against planning include claims that planning is doomed to fail, as illustrated by
constant plan revision that occur, and that it is unnecessary in a free market. - correct answer ✔TRUE
Rival, Non-excludeable, and hence can result in the market failure of over consumption - correct answer
✔Common Resources
The difficulty of transforming individual preferences into one societal preference - correct answer
✔Impossibility theorem
Externalities - correct answer ✔Social costs of a production that are not reflected in the consumer
price, such as the environmental and health impacts caused by a polluting factory
, The argument that planning is unnecessary in a free market ignores these - correct answer ✔Market
failures
Who do architects design for? - correct answer ✔Clients
This time period of planning stressed gridiron streets and public squares - correct answer ✔Colonial
Towns
The division of parcels into individual lots - correct answer ✔Subdivision Regulations
Theory that says planners must maintain strict value neutrality - correct answer ✔Rational PLanning
When self interested individuals fail to cooperate, resulting in a worst state for all - correct answer
✔Prisoner Dilemma Conditions
The sector that majority of urban planners work - correct answer ✔
The employer of the majority of urban planners in the US - correct answer ✔Local Government
What theory is outlined by mathematical modeling - correct answer ✔Rational
What is the method of Incrementalist - correct answer ✔Muddling through
What is the role of the Communicative Planner - correct answer ✔Should alert residents of issues and
arm them with technical data and process understanding
answers already passed 2025/2026
Difficult to define, lack obvious solutions. and are linked to other issues - correct answer ✔Wicked
problems
Greco-Roman towns grew organically - correct answer ✔False
An US document that fails to outline the power of local government - correct answer ✔US Constituion
Social costs of production not reflected in the consumer price - correct answer ✔Externalities
What do safeguard planners try to protect - correct answer ✔public health, safety, and welfare
Planners decisions involved choices about these - correct answer ✔Values
Recent arguments against planning include claims that planning is doomed to fail, as illustrated by
constant plan revision that occur, and that it is unnecessary in a free market. - correct answer ✔TRUE
Rival, Non-excludeable, and hence can result in the market failure of over consumption - correct answer
✔Common Resources
The difficulty of transforming individual preferences into one societal preference - correct answer
✔Impossibility theorem
Externalities - correct answer ✔Social costs of a production that are not reflected in the consumer
price, such as the environmental and health impacts caused by a polluting factory
, The argument that planning is unnecessary in a free market ignores these - correct answer ✔Market
failures
Who do architects design for? - correct answer ✔Clients
This time period of planning stressed gridiron streets and public squares - correct answer ✔Colonial
Towns
The division of parcels into individual lots - correct answer ✔Subdivision Regulations
Theory that says planners must maintain strict value neutrality - correct answer ✔Rational PLanning
When self interested individuals fail to cooperate, resulting in a worst state for all - correct answer
✔Prisoner Dilemma Conditions
The sector that majority of urban planners work - correct answer ✔
The employer of the majority of urban planners in the US - correct answer ✔Local Government
What theory is outlined by mathematical modeling - correct answer ✔Rational
What is the method of Incrementalist - correct answer ✔Muddling through
What is the role of the Communicative Planner - correct answer ✔Should alert residents of issues and
arm them with technical data and process understanding
