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The rule
Follow the order of the recording. Predict answer types from context.
Keep in mind
- Answers come in order
- Watch word limits carefully
Part 1 · Questions 31–35
- The overall theme and word to write at the top of your notes is the 31.
- An important factor running through the literature is 32______ — without it, recommendations don't stand up in a public inquiry.
- The key technical term is 33______ — spatial, cost, traffic.
- The main cause of the collapse of many regeneration schemes is 34.
- The 35______ study is Freiburg's Vauban district — the classic example of car-free high-density sustainability.
Part 2 · Questions 36–40
- The practical consequence of poor planning is widespread 36______ to neighbourhoods, communities and local economies.
- An additional detail is rigorous 37______ between cities, periods or policy choices.
- The main contrast is between isolated project-led planning and a 38______ approach.
- Researchers measure the 39______ of past plans every decade — that's how rhetoric separates from results.
- The final conclusion is 40______ — not purity, not maximising one value.
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