Site and Urban Planning

1.
According to the notes of Nigel Taylor (1998), this is the human

settlement’s physical layout.
a. Urban Design
b. Space Planning
c. Housing
d. Urban Planning
2. In transportation services, which of these is not a cause of urban
traffic congestion?
a. Population Density
b. Infrastructure Obstruction
c. Building Construction Obstruction
d. Transportation Infrastructure Inadequacy

3. This is a tool used by project planning in which proposed
projects are analyzed for the possible impact that their
implementation may have on the environment.
a. Environmental Assessment System
b. Environmental Impact Assessment
c. Impact Assessment System
d. Physical Impact Assessment
4. Which Philippine decree established the Philippine
Environmental Impact Assessment System of 1978?
a. PD 1096
b. PD 1586
c. PD 1701
d. PD 343
5. The said decree stated that environmentally critical projects
(ECP) or projects located on environmental critical areas (ECA)
should have what?
a. Environmental Compliance Certificate
b. Environmental Clearance Certificate
c. Certificate of Critical Environment Clearance
d. Environmental Impact Certificate

6. What is Proclamation 2147?
a. It established Environmental Critical Areas (ECA).
b. It outlined the guidelines for the EIC application.
c. It outlined the guidelines for the ECC application.
d. It established the importance of EIAs.

7. According to the tenets of ekistics, what is a city?
a. A collection of skyscrapers.
b. A conglomeration of peoples in one area.
c. A state of mind and body of customs and traditions.
d. A site in which a major government body is located.

8. This is a concept which refers to places or areas outside of the
población (in the context of the Philippines) or Central Business
Districts (CBD).
a. Urban
b. Regional
c. City
d. Rural
9. In the concepts of ekistics, this refers to the deliberate or
concerted effort or activity directed towards the formulation of
production of a combination of strategies, actions, programs,
policies, and targets which will lead to a goal’s objectives?
a. Development
b. Planning
c. Regional Planning
d. Urbanization
10. In the same context, this is a phenomenon by which a
community of settlement gradually or rapidly acquires on urban
character.
a. Urbanization
b. Ekistics
c. Regional Development
d. Urban Sprawl
11. This refers to the act of designated, dividing, recording, and
transferring of rights and standard information about land or
parcels of land.
a. Land Management
b. Land Government
c. Land Taxation
d. Land Administration
12. In this concept, all activities directed towards the use, re-use,
or non-use of land and its resources, as directed by humans; it
may include planning and building actions.
a. Land Management
b. Land Use Planning
c. Land Administration
d. Land Planning
13. It refers to the conditions of life associated with living in cities,
as seen in terms of change in values, customs, and behaviors of
the population as a result of living in a city.
a. Cityscape
b. City dwelling
c. Urbanism
d. Rural change
14. It refers to an unpleasant or ugly urban district.
a. Sprawl
b. Blight
c. Vista
d. High-risk Area
15. Also known as a “mother city”, it is a big city with at least a
million inhabitants.
a. City
b. Megacity
c. Metropolis
d. Global City
16. This is a city with a direct and tangible effect on global affairs
by socioeconomic means; it is also known as a “world city”.
a. Global City
b. Metropolis
c. Megacity
d. City
17. The term “global city” was likely coined by this American
sociologist and economist in 1949.
a. Daniel Burnham
b. Saskia Sassen
c. Clarence Stein
d. Robert Moses
18. This is a program for land redevelopment in medium to high
density areas, which can have major impact on cities.
a. Urban Renewal
b. Adaptive Reuse
c. Urban Renaissance
d. City Beautification
19. This refers to the process of expansion of the city, primary of
residential areas spreading into the countryside.
a. Amorphic Sprawl
b. Urban Expansion
c. Suburbanization
d. Suburbia
20. According to the UN Conference on Habitat (1972), this is any
group of people living in a particular place, a form of human
habitation with a social purpose, where man/woman lives in a
community, where is he/she transforms the natural environment
into a man-made environment.
a. City
b. Urban Space
c. Suburbia
d. Human Settlements
21. This is the type of economy of a human settlement which is
considered to be organic or linear along rivers and coasts.
a. Mercantile or Trading City
b. Primarily Agricultural
c. Manufacturing City
d. Post-Industrial
22. This is the type of economy of a human settlement in which it
is considered to be radial or axial where transport arteries begin
to radiate from the historic center.
a. Manufacturing City
b. Primarily Agricultural
c. Post-Industrial
d. Primarily Service Economy

23. This is the type of economy of multi-nodal or multi-centric
appearance of edge cities and techno-poles.
a. Primarily Service Economy
b. Manufacturing City
c. Mercantile or Trading City
d. Post-Industrial
24. Which of these choices is not a key element of human
settlements?
a. Environmental Stability/Sustainability
b. Social Engagement Activities
c. Political Expression
d. Public Transport Services

25. This is a problem of human settlements in which there is a
series of scattered developments, low-density fragmented use of
land for consumptive urban purposes at a scale expanded faster
than what population growth requires.
a. Visual Blight
b. Amorphic Sprawl
c. Urban Blight
d. Leapfrog Development
26. Also one of the problems of human settlements, this is the
visual pollution that undermine overall beauty and architecture
of the city caused by oversized billboards, superfluous signages,
and disorderly utility lines.
a. Checkerboard Development
b. Visual Blight
c. Urban Blight
d. Suburbanization
27. What is Ekistics?
a. The art and science of city construction.
b. The system of recording planning data and
ordering planning process.
c. The science of human settlements.
d. It is a process of suburbanizing, population
movement from cities to suburbs.
28. He is a theorist that coined the term “ecomenopolis” or world-
wide city.
a. Konstantinos Apostos Doxadis
b. Daniel Burnham
c. Saskia Sassen
d. Ebenezer Howard
29. According to this same theorist, human settlements consisted
of these elements; which one is not?
a. Networks
b. Man
c. Shells
d. Transportation
30. A celebrated urban planner who was the creator and
proponent of the garden city movement. This same person
published the famous book To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real
Reform.
a. Le Corbusier
b. Kevin A. Lynch
c. Ebenezer Howard
d. Arthur Korn
1. D 11. D 21. B
2. C 12. A 22. A
3. B 13. C 23. D
4. B 14. B 24. D
5. A 15. C 25. B
6. A 16. A 26. B
7. C 17. B 27. C
8. D 18. A 28. A
9. B 19. C 29. D
10. A 20. D 30. C

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According to the notes of Nigel Taylor (1998), this is the human

c. Building Construction Obstruction

d. Transportation Infrastructure Inadequacy

b. Environmental Clearance Certificate

c. Certificate of Critical Environment Clearance

d. Environmental Impact Certificate

a. It established Environmental Critical Areas (ECA).

b. It outlined the guidelines for the EIC application.

c. It outlined the guidelines for the ECC application.

d. It established the importance of EIAs.

b. A conglomeration of peoples in one area.

c. A state of mind and body of customs and traditions.

d. A site in which a major government body is located.

b. Land Use Planning

a. Mercantile or Trading City

d. Primarily Service Economy

a. Primarily Service Economy

c. Mercantile or Trading City

b. Social Engagement Activities

d. Public Transport Services

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