Iran Nezam Urban Planning Exam study guide
Iran Nezam Urban Planning Exam · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Urban Planning Professional Licensing Exam (آزمون نظام مهندسی شهرسازی) is administered under Iran's construction engineering licensing system. Passing it is typically required for urban planners who wish to work as licensed professionals, sign and seal planning documents, or take on certain roles in municipal and private practice. The Iran Nezam Urban Planning Exam study guide has 12 sections and about 3,758 words.
01Urban Design Principles and Theory
This domain tests whether you can justify a physical-form decision with named theory rather than taste. Expect questions that describe a street, square or block and ask which concept, author or intervention applies.
335 words, about 2 min02Urban Planning History and Contemporary Movements
The exam tests whether you can place a proposal in its intellectual lineage and name the critique that broke it. Questions typically describe a plan's device - towers in a park, greenbelt, transit corridor - and ask which movement produced it.
320 words, about 2 min03Iranian Urban Planning History
This domain rewards knowing the sequence of Iranian planning instruments and institutions, and the difference between the master plan and the detailed plan in law and in practice. Pre-modern fabric - organic growth around bazaar, jaame' mosque and arg; the mahalle, koocheh, hoze and caravanserai as the spatial grammar.
328 words, about 2 min04Laws and Regulations
Expect fact-pattern questions: a plot, a permit, a plan, an objection, and the question "which authority and which article?" You need the hierarchy of norms and the competence of each commission. National statute (Majles) → implementing regulations (ayin-nameh) → Supreme Council approvals → municipal bylaws.
321 words, about 2 min05Urban Planning Methods and Techniques
This domain tests method selection and small quantitative reasoning: projection, sampling, weighting and evaluation. You will rarely be asked for heavy mathematics - you will be asked whether a method is appropriate.
287 words, about 1 min06Urban Economics and Land Use
This domain tests why land uses sit where they do, how land value is created and captured, and what distorted incentives do to a city's form. Bid-rent / location rent (Alonso, 1964; Muth–Mills) - uses with steeper rent-distance gradients outbid others near the centre; the boundary between two uses is where their bid rents intersect.
308 words, about 2 min07Urban Infrastructure and Transportation Planning
The exam tests the four-step travel demand model, capacity concepts, and the sizing logic of water, wastewater and waste systems. Expect a small arithmetic check on capacity or demand.
321 words, about 2 min08Environmental Planning and Sustainable Development
This domain tests environmental assessment procedure and the physical limits that planning must respect: carrying capacity, airsheds, aquifers and heat. EIA procedure - screening (does it need assessment?), scoping (which impacts?), baseline, prediction, significance, mitigation, monitoring and post-audit.
298 words, about 1 min09Urban Sociology and Community Participation
This domain asks who is affected, who is heard, and how a plan distributes benefits. Questions often describe a consultation process and ask you to classify its depth.
297 words, about 1 min10GIS and Spatial Analysis in Urban Planning
This domain tests data models, coordinate reference systems, standard spatial operations and the interpretation of spatial statistics. Expect a question that gives a statistic and asks for the correct reading.
302 words, about 2 min11Professional Ethics
Ethics questions are situational: a client request, a conflict, a piece of data, a community that will be harmed. The exam wants the duty that governs and the action that follows.
334 words, about 2 min12Codes and Practice Management
This domain covers the regulatory codes you design to and the business discipline of running a practice: scope, fee, programme, quality and liability. National Building Regulations (Maqarrat-e Melli-e Sakhteman) - a numbered series of subject volumes; among the load-bearing ones for planners: Mabhas 3 (fire protection and egress), Mabhas 19 (energy conservation), plus structural, seismic and accessibility volumes.
307 words, about 2 min