Question

Which of the following city was designed for motor age?

• A. Welwyn
• B. Latchworth
• C. Chandigarh
• D. Radburn

Hint:

Cities designed for the motor age, such as Radburn, were structured to prioritize cars and improve the flow of traffic, while ensuring pedestrian safety.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Each of these towns represents a different era or idea in planning history, so recalling their defining feature is the fastest route to the answer.
Welwyn and Latchworth are both garden cities from Howard's model, built around greenbelts and community balance, not around motor traffic.
Chandigarh is a modernist capital city plan by Le Corbusier, known for its sector grid and monumental architecture rather than being the pioneering "motor age" town.
Radburn introduced the superblock with separated car and pedestrian routes, built specifically to accommodate the rise of automobiles.
So the correct answer is Radburn.

Answer 2

Three of these four towns are tied to planning ideas that predate or sit outside the automobile-focused design brief the question is testing, so ruling those out first narrows the field.

1. Welwyn: As a garden city, its priority was self-sufficiency and greenery around a small urban core, an idea from before car ownership became widespread, so it is set aside.
2. Latchworth: Likewise a garden city, Letchworth's planning brief was rural-urban balance, unrelated to structuring streets for automobile flow, so it is ruled out too.
3. Chandigarh: While Chandigarh does have wide avenues, its planning identity centres on modernist civic architecture and functional zoning as a new state capital, not on being the reference example for motor-age town design, so it is also set aside.
4. Radburn: Once the other three are eliminated, Radburn remains, and its planning brief was explicitly to separate car traffic from pedestrian life through superblocks and looped access roads, which fits "designed for the motor age" precisely.

Eliminating the three towns whose planning identity has nothing to do with structuring around automobiles leaves Radburn as the answer.

Therefore, the correct answer is Radburn.