EnP Board Exams Questions

a

"First we shape our buildings; thereafter, our buildings shape us." This quotation is attributed to a. Winston Churchill b. George Washington c. Theodore Roosevelt d. Napoleon Bonaparte

a

"High-growth regions with expanding economic activity will attract net migration from other parts of the country, thus favoring them further. Capital investments tend to have a similar effect: increased demand in expanding centers spur additional investments, which in turn will increase incomes and demand or cause a further round of investments." a. Cumulative Causation b. Positive Reinforcement c. Economic Modernization d. Circuits of Capital

b

"Make no little plans. They have no magic and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die ... " a. Leon Battista Alberti b. Daniel H. Burnham c. Baron Georges Eugenes Hausmann d. Pierre Charles L'Enfant

b

"When all land is identical and there is perfect competition among profit maximizing firms, land is sold to the highest willing bidder. As a firm moves closer to the center of a place, transport costs fall which increases the amount a firm is willing to pay for land. Thus, land at the center always has the highest value. a. Johann Henreich von Thunen, Walter Christaller, and George Kingsley Zipf b. William Alonso, Richard E. Muth, and Edwin S. Mills c. Alfred Weber, August Losch, and Walter Isard d. Roderick D. McKenzie, Amos H. Hawley, Robert Park

a

'Allocative' or 'regulatory' or 'policy planning' in the tradition of Herbert Gans and TJ Kent is concerned with solving chronic problems of society by allocating resources efficiently and enacting laws, rules and standards. It is therefore closest to which planning approach? a. Rational-comprehensive b. Traditional or command planning c. Strategic planning d. Communicative planning

c

'Ekistics' or the 'science of human settlements' by Dr Konstantinos Doxiadis (1951) was built upon the concept of "basic needs," which were later categorized by Johann Galtung into "material survival & security needs," "social or enabling needs," and nonmaterial "human needs". Which grouping of needs was elaborated on by Abraham Maslow? a. Food, water, clothing, shelter, sanitation, health care, energy/fuel, employment, peace and order, b. Self-expression, sex, procreation, recreation, education, communication, and transportation. c. Physiological needs, physical safety, love and belongingness, esteem, self-actualization/self-realization. d. Freedom, security, identity, well-being, ecological balance

d

'Leapfrog development' and 'sprawl' are what you commonly see in what Peirce F. Lewis calls a. Circumferential city b. Multi Cellular city c. Stellar City d. Galactic City

c

'Residentiary services' refers to domestic living-related services such as housing, grocery, catering, recreation, etc. while 'services that cut across varied types of firms such as security, banking, insurance, courier services, etc. are called a. Logistical b. Financial c. Diagonal d. Interlocal e. Messengerial f. Transborder

d

'Urban development' tends to occur along major transportation routes because a. Power/water connections and other utilities are naturally linear b. Business cannot take place without roads and vehicles c. Migration usually occurs lineally from point A to point B such as in exodus, processions, or Diasporas. d. People tend to locate where exchange, interchange, and access to other land uses are at maximum

d

.Which principle of Strategic Planning rallies the organization and unifies its members around a common purpose? a. Solve major issues at macro level. b. Avoid excessive inward and short-term thinking c. Be visionary to convey a desired end-state but be flexible enough to allow and to accommodate changes. d. Engage stakeholders to pull together behind a single game plan for execution. e. Establish priorities on what will be accomplished in the future. f. Communicate to everyone what is most important.

b

A 'city' is a significantly-large urban area which has: a. A cluster of skyscrapers b. A charter of legal proclamation c. A rectilinear or orthogonal street design d. A seaport or an airport

b

A Scottish biologist who authored the masterpiece entitled "Cities in Evolution" (1915) and who coined the terms 'folk- workplace', 'city-region' and 'conurbation' is acknowledged as the 'father of regional planning' a. Sir Patrick Leslie Abercrombie b. Sir Patrick Geddes c. Lewis Mumford d. Barry Parker

d

A chart-like tool to measure 'centrality' of a place particularly its range of economic and social functions, is called a. Matrix b. Isotims c. Lsodapanes d. Scalogram

d

A member of the advocacy/activist/equity school of planning, this planner wrote the classic "Eight policies, Rungs in the Ladder Citizen Participation" which describes the varying degrees of people's involvement in policies, plans, and programs. a. Ralph Nader b. Susan S. Fainstein c. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. d. Sherry Arnstein

c

According to Dr. Francis Stuart Chapin Jr in the first comprehensive textbook on urban planning ever written ( 1965 ), the explicit goals of urban planning are the following, except one: a. Health & Safety b. Convenience and amenity c. Tolerance and plurality d. Efficiency & economy

d

According to Dr. Garrett Hardin, in an open access regime without defined property rights, individuals enjoy free unlimited access to natural resources and right to use without exclusion; each individual is motivated to maximize his or her own benefit from exploiting the resource. When no individual has adequate incentive to conserve the public resource, the resource will likely become overused and overexploited. a. The Stewardship of Nature b. Communitarian Paradox c. Fencesitter's Dilemma d. Tragedy of the Commons

b

According to Gunnar Myrdal, 'forward linkage' refers to the 'development of external economies for an industry's products" while 'backward linkage' refers to a. Connection with lagging or backward enterprises in the rural countryside b. Development of auxiliary industries to supply input c. Attraction of capital and enterprises to exploit expanding demands. d. Expansion of service industries and others serving the local market

c

According to the Chicago school of human ecology, 'Invasion' refers to how pioneers and opportunists push the 'land frontier' farther out; when immigrants settle in waves, they define new land uses for themselves in a process called a. Evolution b. Co-location c. Succession d. Acclimatization e. Cohabitation

c

All of the following are practical applications of Central Place Theory in the Philippines, except one. a. Location of health centers b. Location of trial courts c. Location of beach resorts d. Location of police stations

c

All of the following schemes are associated with 'New Urbanism' except: a. Mixed Use Zoning b. Neo-Traditional Design c. Exclusionary Zoning d. Pedestrianization

d

As chief planner of New York City, he collaborated with Thomas Adams in crafting the "Regional Plan of New York and its Environs 1922-1931 ;" he also conceived, and executed public works costing $27 billion between 1324 and 1968 and was responsible for virtually every parkway, expressway, and public housing project in New York metropolitan area. a. William Levitt b. Fiorello La Guardia c. Robert Murray Haig d. Robert Moses e. Warren Buffett

a

As defined by PD 1517 and by National Statistics Office, 'urban' area has the following characteristics except one: a. It exports substantial quantities of processed products. b. Core district's density is at least 500 per square kilometer. c. Overall density of at least 1000 persons per square kilometer d. Exhibits a street pattern

a

Based on his landmark book, "Design with Nature," 'map overlay' to identify 'ecological constraints' was a tool devised in 1967 by the first modern environmental planner. a. Ian L. McHarg b. Konstantinos Doxiadis c. Francis stuart Chapin Jr. d. Erma Bernbeck

c

Because Pre-Spanish aboriginal communities in the Philippines were relatively small and based on kinship relations, the most common practice of land tenure in pre-colonial society, wherein one would merely enjoy the 'fruits' of land, was called a. Primitive communism b. Islamic feudalism c. Usufruct d. Tenancy e. Sweden slash-and-burn

a

Built below the Acropolis in the heart of the city-state, the 'marketplace' was the site where ancient Greeks came together not only for trading and buying of foodstuffs but also for political, social, and other secular activities. a. 'parthenon' b. 'gymnasium' c. 'erechtheum' d. 'agora' e. 'sumposion'a

d

Considered as the "Father of City Planning in America," he prepared plans for the City of Manila and the City of Baguio from 1903 to 1911 with the assistance of Pierce Andersson. a. John Hay b. William Howard Taft c. Robert Kennon d. Daniel Hudson Burnham e. Francis B. Harrison

c

Don Arturo Soria y Mata, a Spanish engineer, suggested that the logic of utility connections (electricity, sewer, concept of telephone lines, gas and water pipes) be the basis of city layout; thus he considered the impact of technology in his concept of an elongated urban form running from Cadiz, Spain up to St. Petersburg,Russia a. Ciudad Conectada b. Ciudad Alongada c. Ciudad Lineal d. Ciudad Larga

c

Due to greater 'division of labor', there is more heterogeneity of population and classes of workers beginning with a. Primitive subsistence society b. Pre-industrial society c. Industrial society d. Post-industrial society

c

For his grid-iron design of ancient Greek settlements such as Priene, Piraeus and Rhodes, he is acknowledged as the Father of Town Planning in Western Civilization. a. Vitruvius of Rome b. Ptolemy c. Hippodamus of Miletus d. Appolodorus of Damascus

b

Frank Lloyd Wright proposed an alternative (1932) to the congestion in huge metropolis by way of urban decentralization wherein each American family would be granted at least one acre of federal land in a self-contained agroindustrial settlement. a. Eco-city b. Broad acre city c. Exurbia d. Micro polis e. Suburbia

a

He led the crafting of the regional 'Greater London Plan of 1944', he designed some of 30 post-war New Towns approved by the British Parliament, including Doncaster area and East Kent, in which he used open space as structuring element. a. Sir Patrick Leslie Abercrombie b. Sir Patrick Geddes c. Lewis Mumford d. Charles Abrams

a

He proposed the 'neighborhood unit' (1929) as a self-contained 'garden suburb' bounded by major streets, with shops at intersections and school in the middle; its size would be defined by school's catchment area with a radius of quarter mile or 402 meters. This incorporated Garden City ideas and attempted at some kind of social engineering. a. Clarence Perry b. Clarence Stein c. Clarence Thomas d. Clarence McKay

b

He wrote the famous book "Garden Cities of Tomorrow"(1902) and became a most influential thinker with his effort to combine the best features of 'country' as shown in his diagrams of three (3) magnets. a. Sir Frederic Osborn b. Sir Ebenezer Howard c. Sir Patrick Leslie Abercrombie d. Sir Raymond Unwin

b

If 'Earth Hour' is observed on the last Saturday of March, 'Earth Day USA' is celebrated annually on April 22, 'World Town Planning Day' falls on November 8, 'World Environment Day' is marked on the 51h day of the month of a. May b. June c. September d. October

b

If 'World Heritage Day' is marked each year on April 18, 'World Biodiversity Day' is observed on May 22, 'World Ocean Day' on June 8, 'World Indigenous Peoples Day' on August 9, 'World Animal Day' on October 4, and 'World Food Day' on October 16, when is 'World Water Day' celebrated? a. January 13 b. March 22 c. June 24 d. October 31

c

If 'pre-industrial society' was mainly agricultural, kinship-based, self-sufficient, and relatively parochial, 'industrial society' in contrast a. Minimizes farming to channel capital into factories b. Prioritizes mining of minerals and precious stones c. Aims for mass production thru mechanization & automation d. Relies on the output of white-collar professionals

d

In "Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961) and "Economy of Cities" (1969), this planner maintains that 'diversity' promotes innovation among proximate firms and spurs the growth of cities, thus s/he advocated for heterogeneity, variety, and mixture in the geographic clustering of firms as well as in the composition of city districts and neighborhoods. a. Herbert Gans b. James Howard Kunstler c. Joel Garreau d. Jane Jacobs

c

In 1964, Republic Act 4341 established this center to create a pool of professional planners in the Philippines. a. Local Government Academy b. Development Academy of the Philippines c. Institute of Planning d. UPLB Institute of Environmental Science and Management

c

In 2011, which Philippine city had the biggest population, net income and IRA? a. City of Manila b. Makati City c. Quezon City d. Cebu City

d

In 2012, how many administrative regions does the Philippines have? a. 13 b. 15 c. 16 d. 17

d

In Michael P. Todaro's Labor Migration Model of Urbanization (1976), the central pull factor or main attraction of Third World cities to rural migrants even when these cities are unprepared to accept migration, is a. "blight lights effect" or lure of city life and neon-lit entertainment b. Possible benefits derived from proximity to seat of power and prestige of central city address c. Abundance and plenitude in cities versus hunger and famine due to insurgency wars in the countryside. d. Substantial wage differentials between urban labor and rural labor for the same level of skill, task, or occupation

a

In Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory (1933), neighborhood store is an example of first- order services while grocery store, gas station, furniture shop, and post office are examples of a. Secondary services b. Tertiary services c. Quaternary services d. Quinary services

a

In Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory, The catchment area of a central place takes the shape of a hexagon rather than a perfect circle. If a particular service or function such as elementary school enrolment is represented by the formula,"C=2.6r2d," what would be the catchment area of elementary school if its radius is 0.50km and diameter is one km? a. 0.65 sq. km. b. 0.75 sq. km. c. 0.85 sq. km. d. 0.95 sq. km

d

In a November 2008 ruling of the Supreme Court upholding RA 9009's amendment of Sec. 450 of RA 7160 LGC, the statutory requirements for an LGU's elevation to cityhood are: a. Contiguous territory of at least 100 km2 except for island/group islands. b. Minimum annual income of P100 million based 1991 constant prices. c. Population of at least 150,000 d. All of the choices

c

In general, this refers to the characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely; in particular, it refers to the potential longevity of ecological systems to support humankind and other species. a. Resilience b. Endurance c. Sustainability d. Perpetuity e. Durability

a

In the "Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats" tool as popularized by exponents of Strategic Planning, the elements, aspects or characteristics that need to be reinforced, are enumerated under which quadrant? a. 'S' b. 'W' c. 'O' d. 'T'

d

In the model of Homer Hoyt, the sections of urban land with the highest values are those: a. Downtown sections facing seas, lakes & near waterfronts b. On top of hills and elevated areas called 'uptowns' c. Immediately around public offices and institutional sector d. Along major roadways

a

In the model of mono-centric cities, it is assumed that manufacturers locate close to transport arteries, blue-collar workers locate close to their jobs, while traders and retailers pay higher for choice locations in city center to have command of the market. This pattern of land use is explained better by which theory of spatial planning? a. Urban Bid-Rent by Alonso b. Cumulative Causation by Gunnar Myrdal c. Urban Land Nexus Theory by David Harvey d. City as Growth Machine by John Logan & Harvey Molotch

b

Johann Heinreich von Thunen's theory of agricultural rent is symbolized as "LR=Y(p-c)-Ytd' where "Y" is yield or total harvest, "P" is price of crop, "C"is production cost of crop, "t" is transport cost and "D" is distance to market. If yield of palay is 3,500 kgs, NFA buying price is P17.00 per kilo, distance is 5km., given farmer's gross production cost of 45 cents per square meter per day for unit production cost of P12.00 per kilo,would palay cultivation be profitable at this specific farm location if transport cost is P1.00 per kilo of palay? a. Yes b. No c. It depends on the weather d. It depends on the quality of road and capacity of vehicle • LR = 3,500 kgs(17.00-12.00) - 3

c

Klaasen enumerates the criteria for creating planning regions as follows. Which criterion pertains to the role of a leading center or a complex of exporting firms or lead industries? a. Must be large enough to take investment descisions of an economic size. b. Must be able to supply its own industries with necessary labor c. Should have a homogenous economic structure c. Must contain at least one growth point. d. Must have a common approach to and awareness of its own problems

d

Presidential Decree 1308 Sec. 2a defines it as referring to 'all activities concerned with the management and development of land, as well as the preservation, conservation and management of the human environment a. Urban Planning b. Human ecology c. Environmental Management d. Environmental Planning

d

Presidential Decree No. 01 Integrated Reorganization Plan on September 24, 1972 increased the number of Philippine regions to 11, regionalized key ministries and line departments, and created a major planning agency of government which is known today as a. Philippine Economic Zone Authority b. National Land Use Committee c. Congressional Planning and budget Office d. National Economic and Development Authority

a

Recognized as 'father of landscape architecture,' he also began the 'Parks and Conservation Movement' in the United States which advanced the idea that city parks and greenways can structure urban space, stimulate mixed uses, dampen class conflict, heighten family and religious values, and serve as aid to social reform. a. Frederic Law Olmstead b. John Muir c. Gifford Pinchot d. George Perkins Marsh

d

Related to Thomas Malthus' concept of 'k' as the population size constrained by whatever resource is in shortest supply, this principle refers to "the maximum population of a given species that can be supported indefinitely in a defined habitat without causing negative impacts that permanently impair the productivity of that same habitat." a. Limits to growth b. Tipping point c. Range and threshold d. Carrying capacity

c

She was called a 'superwoman' who single handedly sparked environmental activism in the 1960s-70s with her research ('Silent Spring) on bio magnification of pesticides and chemicals in the human food chain; her advocacies bore fruit in the creation of US Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental Impact Assessment system in the 1970s. a. Gro Harlem Brundtland b. Catherine Bauer Wurster c. Rachel Louise Carson d. Marth C. Nussbaum

d

The 'hierarchy of settlements' in Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory is characterized by a. Equally-sized large cities in every region b. Only one large city, many small settlements c. Only medium-sized and small settlements d. A few large cities, some medium cities, many small settlements

b

The 'multiple nuclei' model of Harris and Ullmann (1945) posits that a. Cities have varied natural resources that stimulate progress in different locations. b. Diversified economic functions of cities cluster around several points of growth c. Zoning of cities closely follows the flow or 'circuits of capital' d. Air transport, sea transport, land transport facilities are the logical growth zones of cities.

c

The Garden City Movement in the United Kingdom directly addressed largescale problems caused by the __? a. The Scientific Revolution. b. British-American War of Independence. c. Industrial Revolution. d. World War II and the Holocaust.

c

The Garden City Movement shaped the British policy of "urban containment", with following features, except one: a. Greenbelts, green girdles, and clear edges for all cities. b. Mass transit to link 'mother city' with 'garden cities'. c. Homestead of about one acre per family. d. Preservation of more farmland & open space.

d

The New Towns Movement of 1920s might have contributed to scattered and uncontrolled development in continental America but the main reason for its suburban sprawl after World War II was__? a. Rapid fall of real estate prices in the countryside due to financial meltdown from sub-prime lending. b. Increased value of rural land due to Hoover's Interstate highway Act of 1956 which funded federal highways and freeways across many states. c. The widespread use of commuter trains and monorail. d. The popularity of automobile as a means of transportation.

b

The US Supreme Court's decision in 1926 to uphold the power of an LGU to regulate land use through ordinance in the landmark case of "Village of Euclid vs. Ambler Realty Company is reckoned as the watershed moment for a. City Beautiful Movement b. City Functional Movement c. City Efficient Movement d. Regional City Movement

d

The concepts of "input-throughput--output-feedback" come from what school of planning? a. Communicative Planning b. Liberal Pluralistic Planning c. Incremental Planning d. Systems Theory of Planning

a

The design of this city by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer (1957) features large open areas relating to one other to demonstrate 'freedom' and an overall city layout resembling a 'dove in flight'. a. Brasilia b. Sydney c. Chandigarh d. Canberra e. Islamabad

d

The expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low density, mono functional and usually cardependent communities, in a process called suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this development. a. Decentralization b. Dispersion c. Exurbanization d. Urban Sprawl

c

The following are the basic elements of 'human settlements' according to Dr. Konstantinos Doxiadis. Which one pertains to the built environment or physical capital? a. Anthropos b. Nature c. Shells and network d. Society e. Social structure

b

The following are the stated goals of 'urban development policy' (NUDHF) in the Philippines, except one: a. To achieve a more balanced urban-rural interdependence b. To slow down rural-to-urban movement by means of migration control and population management c. To optimally utilize land and resources to meet the requirements of housing and urban development d. To undertake a comprehensive and continuing program of urban development which will make available housing and services at affordable cost

a

The main contribution of Norbert Weiner's 'Cybernetics' to the Systems Theory of planning is the principle that planning should be - a. Cyclical. Iterative, and self-correcting b. Free-wheeling and open-ended c. Wide-ranging and exhaustive d. Rigorous, exact, and mathematical

b

The major objective of Le Corbusier's (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) cubist"Radiant City' design (1923) meant for 3 million people consisting of 'uniform 60-storey tower-blocks set in a huge park' was to: a. Use high-rise structures to improve safety of people and security of vital institutions. b. Increase city density by building on a small part of land. c. Increase the public's enjoyment of environmental amenities and viewscapes from varying heights. d. Capture the retail market which justifies why prices are necessarily high in central locations or CBDs.

a

The most recent re-definition of 'urban' by NSCB (2003) does not include one of the following. a. If a barangay has more fishery output and shellcraft activities compared to farms, then it is considered urban b. If a barangay has population size of 5,000 or more, then it is considered urban; c. If a barangay has at least one establishment with 100 employees or more, then it is considered urban. d. If a barangay has 5 or more establishments with a minimum of 10 employees, and 5 or more facilities within the twokilometer radius from the barangay hall, then it is considered urban

a

The original concept of 'megalopolis' as an extended or super-sized urban area is attributed to a. Jean Gottman b. Konstantinos Doxiadis c. Dennis Rondinelli d. Andreas Faludi

b

They were considered the earliest regional planners in history (27 BCE -410 AD) because they planned their cities and settlements with transport network, civil works, utilities, and military defense, foremost in their minds? a. Macedonian Greeks under Alexander the Great. b. Romans under the dictatorial Emperors. c. Persians under Cyrus the Great. d. Egyptians under Ramses, Thutmoses, and Nefertiti

d

This 1997 document is the Philippines' official response to 1992 'UNCED Earth Summit' and contains a policy framework that redefines development as the 'drawing out of full human potential' according to the 'appropriate productivity' of nature, rather than optimal or maximum exploitation of natural resources to achieve GDP growth. a. Philippine Strategy for Sustainable Development b. Philippine Strategy Covenant for on total Sustainable Human Development c. Strategic National Action Program d. Philippine Agenda 21

c

This School of Thought describes a borderless global economy characterized by free trade and free movement of capital wherein nation-states would have 'lean and mean' governments which pursue policies of liberation, deregulation, privatization, debureaucratization, 'unbundling', 'de-coupling', and similar structural adjustments. a. World Systems Theory b. State Corporatism c. Neo-Liberalism d. Liberal Democracy

b

This School of Thought holds that the settlements form in a balanced manner; they tend to be spread evenly and symmetrically in isotropic space, displaying both hierarchy and equilibrium arising from the interdependence between big and small settlements and from the complementation between their respective scope of functions a. Galaxy of Settlements Theory b. Central Place Theory c. Geographic Determinism d. Dependency Theory

b

This School of Thought maintains that cities are 'theaters of capital accumulation', largely a consequence of class-based struggle among groups for strategic dominance and control surplus. Such conflict is usually won by the rich and powerful through agents of capital such as multi-national corporations which use the city to amass wealth by raising property values through commercialization, gentrification, manipulation, and land speculation. a. Capital Theoretic Model b. Political Economy c. Natural Capitalism d. David Harvey's Circuit of Capital

b

This pertains to the process wherein large numbers of people, driven by demographic factors, live together in important locations --a process that is always accompanied by economic agglomeration, spatial alteration, and socio-cultural change a. Industrialization b. Urbanization c. Social Transformation d. Modernization

c

This process deals with efficient placement of activities and land uses such as farms, settlements, industries, transport hubs, infrastructure, wilderness etc. across a significantly large area broader than a single city or town. a. Watershed Planning b. Area Development Planning c. Regional Planning d. Physical Planning

d

This started as a US federal program in 1949 which aimed to rehabilitate the outworn or decaying sections of any town by extending fund assistance to LGUs to undertake improvements in streetscapes, parks, green ways, housing, community centers, etc., based on anticipation that future tax revenues from real estate will pay for present costs. a. Land re-adjustment b. Urban re-structuring c. Infill and densification d. Urban renewal

d

This type of planning has also been called 'synoptic,' 'static', 'normative,' and 'Utopian', because it assumes a prior that professional planners have the intelligence, noble intentions and expertise to synthesize extensive data, analyze a relatively predictable world, and decide rightly on crucial questions, of broader public interest. a. Equity or activist or advocacy planning b. Strategic Planning c. Traditional planning or command planning or imperative planning d. Rational-Comparative Planning

a

This was an American movement in the 1890s that stressed the design of settlements according to the principles of "grandeur, exuberance, monumentality, drama and tension, cohesiveness, and symmetry" as demonstrated in the planning of Washington DC, Paris, Chicago, San Francisco, among others: a. City Beautiful Movement b. City Functional Movement c. City Efficient Movement d. New Towns Movement

c

This was the Spanish spatial strategy of forming dense settlements from scattered dwellings for purposes of greater, military defense and political control - literally bringing together dispersed population within hearing distance of church bells -- which policy was applied on most Spanish colonies from 16th to18th centuries. a. El Alcance del Campanario b. Presidio y Fortaleza c. Reduccion d. Evangelizacion

a

Through Presidential Letter of Instruction 367 in 1950 combining National Urban Planning Commission, Real Property Board, and Capital City Planning Commission, the government created this first physical planning body. a. National Planning Commission b. National Disaster Coordinating Council c. National Environmental Protection Agency d. Human Settlements Regulatory Commission

d

Tony Garnier (1917) conceptualized a lush green city of about 35,000 inhabitants where 'man would rule by himself.' thus there would be no police, no churches, no rigid forms of social control in this Utopian place complete with landscaped homes, factories, trade schools, transport and leisure facilities. a. Esplanade b. Axle Industrielle c. Post-Industrial Motor City d. Linear Industrial City

c

Under RA 7160 LGC Sec. 25, which of the following is not among the types of cities in the Philippines? a. Highly Urbanized Cities b. Independent Cities c. Megacities d. Component Cities

a

Under RA7160 Sec 452, what is the minimum population requirement to approve a Highly Urbanized City? a. At least 200,000 b. At least 500,000 c. At least 1 million d. At least 10 million

d

Under the Systems Theory of Planning by George Chadwick and Alan Wilson, under which stage do policy-makers or decisionmakers make a firm resolve to pursue a specific course of action? a. System Description b. System Modeling c. System Projection d. System Synthesis e. System Control

c

Under the plaza complex pattern described in 'Le yes de las lndias' ( 1573), what would be located next to each other around a Greco-Roman quadrangle of a Spanish colonial settlement? a. Garden, fountains, monuments, statues, gallery and promenade b. Governor's mansion, bishop's palace, general's manor, haciendero's villa, military garrison c. Church, town hall, school, public market d. Houses of peninsulares, insulares, creoles, mestizos, principals and ilustrados

a

Urban planning is "concerned with providing the right place at the right site at the right time" for the right people. a. John Ratcliffe b. Lewis Keeble c. Brian Mclughlin d. George Chadwick e. Alan Wilson

c

What Christallerian principles form the basis why a state university, a consumer mall, a huge sports stadium, or a tertiary-level hospital cannot be established in each and every Philippine municipality? a. Spatial equity and bio-geographic equity b. Specialization and concentration c. Market range and threshold population d. Profitability and pecuniary interest

b

What is the smallest unit in the 'human settlements planning' or Ekistics by Dr Konstantinos Doxiadis (1951 )? a. House b. Anthropos c. Organism d. Neighborhood e. Hamlet

b

Which basic principle of 'Sustainable Development' means responsibility and accountability to future populations? a. Common Heritage of Humankind b. Inter-generational Equity c. Caring Capacity d. Parity of Compeers

c

Which characteristic of megalopolis describes its tendency to develop a multi-nuclei or multi-nodal spatial pattern? a. Is an expansive urban region with over 10 million population (Giles Clarke) b. Tends to be dependent on food, water, and energy supplies of its neighboring regions. c. Has complex form as 'mother city' breeds smaller offspring cities in sprawling manner. d. Requires broad type of regional governance beyond the capacity and resources of a single LGU authority

b

Which is a major contribution of classical Greek civilization 700-404 BCE to town planning? a. Polytheism or pantheon of Greek gods which sanctified all elements of Nature as being animated by divine spirit. b. The delineation between religious space & secular civic space as separate but complementary spheres in society. c. The concept of 'polis' or (latin) 'civitas' which means that only residents of cities can truly be called 'civilized'. d. The practice of direct democracy and the notion of citizenship which included women, the poor, slaves, and aliens

b

Which is a significant accomplishment of "Advocacy Planning" movement as fathered by Paul Davidoff (1965)? a. Single women with children were assisted to find employment. b. Social planning was moved from 'backroom negotiations' into the open public forum. c. Documentation of long-lasting environmental changes was intensified. d. Affirmative action and social amelioration were mainstreamed into national policy. e. Businesses were compelled to draw their employees from the ranks of the poor.

c

Which is not a key feature of 'professional' planning process? a. Proactive b. Problem solving c. Algorithmic d. Futuristic e. People-driven

a

Which is not a method to delineate a region? a. Force Field analysis b. Gravitational analysis c. Factor analysis d. Flow analysis e. Ethno-linguistic and socio-cultural profiling f. Weighted index number method

f

Which of the following is not a feature of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Broad Acre City' (1932)? a. Each person regardless of age has one acre of federal land. b. Food garden or small farm would be right next to the house. c. Manufacture & commerce set up in twelve 15-storey buildings. d. Work within walking distance from the home. e. Railroad and freeway to interconnect cities. f. Densification would preserve much open space.

c

Which of the following land-use models describes the pattern of radial or axial growth along lines of least resistance? a. Multiple Nuclei b. Concentric Zone c. Sector Model d. Polycentric Model

b

Which theorist of urban land use states categorically that land use follows transport in the same manner that both population and business follow roads? a. Ernest Burgess b. Homer Hoyt c. Chauncey Harris & Edward Ullman d. Peirce Lewis

a

Which thrust of regional planning addresses core-periphery, center-hinterland economic exchange & spatial integration? a. Enforce urban growth control such as greenbelts or analogous schemes to protect the natural environment. b. Cultivate a role for each component-settlement such as administrative center, manufacturing hub, tourism zone, etc. c. Develop transport corridors in 'hub and spokes design' with major infrastructure reaching out to population centers. d. Resist development in flood plains or on earthquake fault zones by utilizing these areas as parks, farms, buffers, etc.