URBAN PLANNING

1. What is the science of human settlements?

A. Doxiadis
B. Ekistics
C. Ecumenopolis
D. Stie Planning

2. Which term means world-wide city?

A. Agropolis
B. Metropolis
C. Megapolis
D. Ecumenopolis

3. Who began ekistics as the multidisciplinary, integrated, scientific study of human

settlements?
A. Konstantinos Doxiadis
B. Vitruvius
C. Andrea Palladio
D. NOTA

4. A group of people living in a particular place, a form of human habitation with social
purposes
A. Doxiadis
B. Ekistics
C. Ecumenopolis
D. Human settlement

5. Which refers to an integral part of land use planning that involves the arrangement of
structures, natural or man-made on the land and sharing the space between?
A. Doxiadis
B. Ekistics
C. Ecumenopolis
D. Human settlement

6. Type of human settlement economy that is organic or linear along rivers and coast?
A. Manufacturing City
B. Donut Form
C. Mercantile or Trading City
D. Post Industrial City

7. What type of human settlement economy is monocentric compact form around the port
of water front?
A. Manufacturing City
B. Donut Form
C. Mercantile or Trading City
D. Post Industrial City
8. What type of human settlement economy might arise the problems of congestion, air
and noise pollution, urban heat island effect and conflicting land uses?
A. Manufacturing City
B. Donut Farm
C. Mercantile or Trading City
D. Post Industrial City

9. A primary service economy forms of human settlements?

A. Manufacturing City
B. Donut Form City
C. Mercantile or Trading City
D. Post Industrial City

10. It is multi-modal or multi-centric appearance of “edge cities” and techno poles. What
type of economy is being described?
A. Manufacturing City
B. Donut Form City
C. Mercantile or Trading City
D. Post Industrial City

11. Which principle of human settlement preserves and integrates natural habitat, make
visible the processes that sustain life?
A. Appropriate Technology
B. Balance
C. Balance with tradition
D. Coherence

12. Which means there is some sort of a center that represents the core values of the local
populace?
A. Appropriate Technology
B. Balance
C. Balance with Tradition
D. Integrity, Unity, Centrality

13. What principle of human settlement states that there are cultural symbols that give
“meaning” and significance to the public?
A. Appropriate Technology
B. Balance
C. Balance with Tradition
D. Integrity, Unity, Centrality

14. What is the use of environment-friendly material to protect people from the elements,
rain, noise, wind, and others?
A. Appropriate Technology
B. Balance
C. Balance with Tradition
D. Integrity, Unity, Centrality
15. It means the mental image of physical setting that can be used to move around?
A. Appropriate Technology
B. Coherence
C. Balance with Tradition
D. Integrity, Unity, Centrality

16. What is sense of security and pleasantness?

A. Balance Movement
B. Conviviality
C. Efficiency
D. Opportunity Matrix

17. What principle of human settlement planning is particular to connectivity and

accessibility or how swiftly one can get ones need
A. Balance Movement
B. Conviviality
C. Efficiency
D. Opportunity Matrix

18. Major transport route is interlinked around the place for a person not to lose his/her way.
What principle of human settlement planning is used?
A. Balance Movement
B. Conviviality
C. Efficiency
D. Opportunity Matrix

19. Economic and livelihood activities refer to which type of human settlement planning?
A. Balance Movement
B. Conviviality
C. Efficiency
D. Opportunity Matrix

20. What principle of human settlement planning uses compatibility of land uses and
patterns with broader scales of community
A. Regional Integration
B. Conviviality
C. Efficiency
D. Opportunity Matrix

21. Distances become too great for walking and this forces dependence on the automobile;
hard for people when they can no longer drive; hard for young people who aren’t old
enough to drive. What is being described?
A. Area Development Planning
B. Baroque Art
C. Scattered Development
D. Amorphic Sprawl
22. Refers to the “low density” fragmented use of land for consumptive purposes at a scale
expanded faster than what population growth requires and occurring along the margins
of existing metropolitan areas in generally amorphic manner.
A. Amorphic Sprawl
B. Area Development Planning
C. Baroque Art
D. Leapfrog Development

23. What is the discontinuous pattern of urbanization with patches of developed lands that
are widely separated from each other and from the boundaries of recognized urbanized
area?
A. Amorphic Sprawl
B. Area Development Planning
C. Baroque Art
D. Leapfrog Development

24. An urban design characterized by symmetry, cohesive

A. Amorphic Sprawl
B. Area Development Planning
C. Baroque Art
D. Leapfrog Development

25. What examines a broad area below the “state/regional level” which is unified by its
function or architectural features and designs it as a coherent integrated territory prior to
conduct if the detailed technical planning for individual project?
A. Amorphic Sprawl
B. Area Development Planning
C. Baroque Art
D. Leapfrog Development

26. What is a master plan that integrates commercial, residential, and other compatible
mixed uses?
A. Clustered Development
B. Organic Settlement
C. Planned Settlements
D. Planned Unit Development

27. Which is not integrated development scheme wherein project site is comprehensively
planned as a unitary entity such that innovations in site and building design merit
flexibility in zoning category. Usually, suspension of standard zoning and it’s
replacement by negotiated agreements with the LGU?
A. Clustered Development
B. Organic Settlements
C. Planned Settlements
D. Planned Unit Development
28. Which land characteristics indicate all man-made physical changes on the project area’s
surface such as buildings, roads, etc. and shoes degree of inclination of a given area
expressed in percentage rise of land relative to its ground distance?
A. Clustered Development
B. Organic Settlements
C. Topography, Slope, Aspect, Elevation
D. Planned Unit Development

29. Settlement that grows by natural accretion around its source of life usually a body of
water, food basket or locus of commerce?
A. Clustered Settlement
B. Organic Settlements
C. Topography, Slope, Aspect, Elevation
D. Planned Unit Development

30. Which human settlement is purposively designed with identifiable core, bodes, transport
network and edges?
A. Clustered Development
B. Organic Settlements
C. Planned Settlements
D. Planned Unit Development

31. How many cities composes the National Capital Region?

A. 14
B. 15
C. 16
D. 17

32. The biggest city in terms of population and land area in Metro Manila
A. City of Manila
B. Quezon City
C. Mandaluyong City
D. Makati City

33. “City of Stars” is attributed to what Philippine City?

A. City of Manila
B. Quezon City
C. Mandaluyong City
D. Makati City

34. The only remaining municipality in the National Capital Region?

A. Malabon
B. Navotas
C. Pateros
D. San juan

35. What is the biggest city in the Philippines in terms of land area?
A. Davao City
B. Quezon City
C. Puerto Princesa City
D. Cebu City
36. As per latest Philippine Statistics Authority Data, what Philippines City is the richest?
A. Makati City
B. Quezon City
C. Mandaluyong City
D. City of Manila

37. Quezon City is classified as what type of city?

A. Highly Urbanized City
B. Primate City
C. Component City
D. Independent City

38. Which among the Philippine Cities listed is considered as independent City?
A. Angeles City
B. Tabuk City
C. City of San Fernando
D. Tacurong City

39. Under LGU city classification, what is a city with 250,000 population?
A. Highly Urbanized City
B. Component City
C. Independent City
D. Primate City

40. A city is significantly large urban area which has?

A. A cluster of skyscrapers
B. A charter or legal proclamation
C. A rectilinear or orthogonal street design
D. A seaport or an airport

41. Which basic principle of “Sustainable Development” means responsibility and

accountability to future generation?
A. Common Heritage of Humankind
B. Inter-generational Equity
C. Caring Capacity
D. Parity of Compeers

42. Which basic principle of “Sustainable Development” most directly supports the saying,
“think Local, Act Global”?
A. Principle of Subsidiarity
B. Polluter Pays Principle
C. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities
D. Duty to Care and Not Cause Environment Harm

43. The philosophy “Polluter Pays Principle” is attributed to?

A. Socrates
B. Vitruvius
C. Plato
D. Aristotle
44. The most basic function of a city?
A. Housing
B. Business
C. Defense
D. Work area

45. The Garden City Movement in the United Kingdom directly addressed large scale
problem caused by?
A. The Scientific Revolution
B. British-American War of Independence
C. Industrial Revolution
D. New Millennium

46. All of the following schemes are associated with “New Urbanism” except?
A. Mixed Used Zoning
B. Neo Traditional Design
C. Exclusionary Zoning
D. Pedestrianization

47. Based on his landmark book, “Design with Nature”, map overlay to identify ecological
constraints was a tool devised in 1967 by the first environmental planner
A. Ian Mcharg
B. Konstantinois Doxiadis
C. Francis Stuart Chapin
D. Paolo Manalansan

48. Refers to a document embodying specific proposals for guiding, regulating growth and
development
A. Charette
B. GIS
C. CLUP
D. TCT

49. Who approves the Zoning Ordinances of a municipality?

A. Sangguniang Panglungsod
B. Sangguniang bayan
C. Sangguniang Panlalawigan
D. Sangguniang Barangay

50. Considered as the first university town in the Philippines?

A. Baguio City
B. Dumaguete City
C. Sampaloc, Manila
D. Padre faura

51. Defined as intensive foci from which the observer is traveling

A. Paths
B. Edges
C. Nodes
D. Landmarks
52. Most dominant element for most person’s image of the city
A. Paths
B. Edges
C. Nodes
D. Districts

53. Responsive environments that focus on details, with a wide vocabulary of visual cues
possess
A. Legibility
B. Variety
C. Visual appropriateness
D. Personalization

54. The shape of urban cities formed by two corridors of intense development crossing the
center
A. Radiocentric
B. Rectilinear
C. Articulated sheet
D. Linear

55. Determines current housing needs

A. Housing to be replaced
B. Housing for new family formation
C. Housing for new family formation
D. All of the above

56. Describes the housing shortage or backlog

A. Difference between number of acceptable housing & number of families
B. Housing for new family formation
C. Housing produced minus existing housing
D. All of the above

57. Type of urban ecological process in land use planning patterning in cities or
communities defined as the entrance of a new population and/or facilities into an
occupied area
A. Succession
B. Concentration
C. Invasion
D. Decentralization

58. In the increase of urban population, which of the following factors indicates excess of in-
migration over out-migration?
A. Natural increase
B. Concentration
C. Net Migration
D. Reclassification
59. Factors indicating Net Migration
A. Excess of births over deaths
B. Excess in young population
C. Excess of in-migration over out-migration
D. Rural areas having achieved urban status

60. Urban design control that allows builders and developers more space if they provide
desirable features such as plazas, arcades, and other open spaces
A. Flexible zoning
B. Incentive zoning
C. Cluster zoning
D. Land use planning

61. Acknowledged as the oldest city in the history of settlements

A. Babylon
B. Eridu
C. Constantinople
D. Damscus

62. Acknowledged as the oldest continually inhabited city in the world

A. Babylon
B. Eridu
C. Damascus
D. Athens

63. The first noted urban planner because of his design of the city miletus
A. Vitruvius
B. Hippodamus
C. Damascus
D. Paleo

64. Roman forum designed with formalism

A. Freedom Forum
B. Triumphal Forum
C. Republican Forum
D. Imperial Forum

65. The first city that signified the rise of the church, with the church being an integral part
of its urban design
A. Rome
B. Constantinople
C. Madrid
D. Versaille

66. Leader of the reform movement during the industrial revolution

A. Robert Owen
B. Ebineezer Howar
C. Soria Y Mata
D. James Reid
67. The military towns of Spanish settlements
A. Kampo
B. Presidio
C. Pueblo
D. Mission

68. Acknowledged as the icon of middle-class suburbanization during the 1950’s

A. Project 1-8
B. Phil-am Life Homes
C. Forbes Park
D. Dasmarinas Village
69. Among Kevin Lynch’s elements of the city, these are defined as lateral references that
are not coordinate axes
A. Paths
B. Edges
C. Nodes
D. Districts

70. The largest and simplest function of a city

A. Economic
B. Government
C. Housing
D. Transportation

71. Intersections that separate lanes of traffic by use of lands

A. Channelization
B. Rotaries
C. Cloverleafs
D. Diamonds

72. Basic subdivision design

A. Grid iron
B. Radial grid
C. Curvilinear
D. Radial super blocks

73. What major problem brought about the discipline of the city planning?
A. Physical chaos
B. Urban Growth
C. Land Value
D. Crime

74. What part of basic data and planning studies in a comprehensive development plan
describes the physical setting of the community or region?
A. Economic base study
B. Land use survey and inventory
C. Man-made features
D. History and geography
75. The urban model of growth and development that presents the emergence of self-
sufficient sectors
A. Concentric zone model
B. Sector model
C. Multiple nucleic model
D. Urban realms model

76. Density control method that regulates the proportions between the built area of the
building and the lot area
A. Number of occupants per square meter
B. Number of occupants per floor
C. Floor area ratio
D. Floor space index

77. A general term to describe the idea of consciously renewing the outworn areas of towns
and cities
A. Historic preservation
B. Urban renewal
C. Adaptive reuse
D. Urban gentrification

78. A mixed-use community with average 670 meters distance of a transit stop and
commercial core area
A. Transit oriented development
B. Traditional neighborhood development
C. Planned unit development
D. New urbanism

79. A group of architects, planners, and urban designers formed to educate citizens
worldwide of the benefits of new urbanism
A. The council of New Urbanism
B. The Congress for New Urbanism
C. The New Urbanism Movement
D. The Association of New Urbanists

80. According to the new theory of New Urbanism, neighborhoods must be a discernible
center within a five-minute walk of all dwellings, and equivalent to
A. 200 to 300 meters
B. 600 to 700 meters
C. 300 to 500 meters
D. Approximately 1 kilometer

81. Minimum width of sidewalks, according to New Urbanism principles

A. 1.20 meters
B. 2.00 meters
C. 2.50 meters
D. 3.00 meters
82. Which of the following indicates good site planning?
A. Maximized land use/space
B. Controlled environmental hazards
C. Efficient maintenance
D. All of the above

83. The document issued by the DENR Secretary certifying that based on the
representation of the proponent and the prepares, as reviewed and validated by the
EIARC, the project will not pose negative impact to the environment
A. ECC
B. EMPA
C. EIS
D. EENT

84. One of the key housing agencies of HUDCC that concentrates on the production aspect
of housing
A. HLURB
B. NHMFC
C. NHA
D. HIGC

85. One of the funding agencies of Housing, locally known as the Pag-ibig Fund
A. GSIS
B. SSS
C. HDMF
D. 143 Fund

86. An urban design control that is used to limit height and building bulk, creates setbacks
and open space, and ultimately generate a relatively uniform urban fabric, computed as
the ratio of the total floor area and the lot area
A. Building Code
B. Floor Area Ratio
C. Floor Space Index
D. Land Zoning

87. The salient provision of this law requires developers of proposed subdivision project at
least 20% of the total subdivision area or total subdivision project cost for socialized
housing
A. RA 7279
B. RA 1432
C. RA 9266
D. RA 1680

88. The wet and dry market is its main feature with quasi-residential commercial or mixed-
use development
A. Central Business District
B. Neighborhood Center
C. Town Center
D. Minor CBD
89. Refers to the acquisition of land at values based on existing use in advance of actual
need to promote planned development and socialized housing programs
A. Land investing
B. Land banking
C. Land assembly
D. Land swapping

90. Refers to the process of land acquisition by exchanging land for another piece of land
equal value, or for shares of stock in a government or quasi-government corporation.
A. Land investing
B. Land banking
C. Land swapping
D. Land assembly

91. Refers to the acquisition of lots of varying ownership through purchase or expropriation
for the purpose of planned and rational development and socialized housing programs
without individual boundary restrictions
A. Land investing
B. Land banking
C. Land swapping
D. Land assembly

92. Refers to those areas declared as such under existing statutes and pertinent executive
issuances
A. Idle lands
B. Blighted lands
C. Area for priority development
D. Component lands

93. Refers to the areas where the structures are dilapidated, obsolete and unsanitary,
tending to depreciate the value of the land and prevent normal development and use of
the area
A. Idle lands
B. Blighted lands
C. Area for priority development
D. Component lands

94. Refers to non-agricultural lands in urban and urbanized areas on which no

improvements, as herein defined, have been made by the owner, as certified by the city,
municipality or provincial assessor
A. Idle lands
B. Blighted lands
C. Area for priority development
D. Component lands
95. A tract or a parcel of land registered under RA 496 which is partitioned primarily for
residential purposes into individual lot with or without improvements there on, and
offered to the public for sale, in cash or in installment terms
A. Condominium Project
B. Economic and Socialized Housing
C. Subdivision Project
D. Open Market Housing

96. The entire parcel of real property divided or to be divided primarily for residential
purposes into condominium units including all structures thereon
A. Condominium Project
B. Economic and Socialized Housing
C. Subdivision Project
D. Open Market Housing

97. Constructed and financed by the private sector as business venture and sold at
prevailing market prices and interest
A. Condominium Project
B. Economic and Socialized Housing
C. Subdivision Project
D. Open Market Housing

98. Housing project for moderately low-income families with lower interest rates and longer
amortization periods.
A. Condominium Project
B. Economic and Socialized Housing
C. Subdivision Project
D. Open Market Housing

99. As per NSO, what structure is 3 or more units, intended for residential use only, usually
consisting of 3 or more housing units?
A. Condominium Project
B. Economic and Socialized Housing
C. Subdivision Project
D. Open Market Housing

100. Which is not included in the elements of human settlements?

A. Man
B. Nature
C. Network
D. Community

101. This the golden era of urban design in the U.S. characterized with a totally designed
system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks, and clusters or focal buildings or
building blocks of civic centers.
A. New Towns
B. Broadacre
C. Garden City Movement
D. City Beautiful
102. These are centrally located parks with a service radius from 0.8 to 3.0 kilometers
designed for both active and passive recreation
A. Neighborhood park
B. Municipal park
C. Playlot
D. Community park

103. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. A total separation of vehicles and pedestrians is harmful to the development of a
lively and active street.
B. Increasing competition for the driver’s attention has turned roadway signs into swirls
of conflicting graphics and verbiage.
C. A street has a three-dimensional form which inhibit certain activities and make other
possible.
D. According to Alberti, if the city is noble and powerful, streets should be designed
winding, rather than straight and broad, because this carries the air of greatness and
majesty.

104. Responsible in the reconstruction of Paris which imposed a new pattern of broad
boulevards and great parks on the previous labyrinth street pattern.
A. Le Corbusier
B. George Hausmann
C. Sir Barlow
D. Daniel Burnham

105. Recommended maximum distance of commercial center to residential zones as per

HLURB planning standards.
A. 1200 meters
B. 1000 meters
C. 800 meters
D. 900 meters

106. What type of street has highly velocity and higher volume of traffic flow?
A. Collector street
B. Arterial street
C. Main street
D. Corner street

107. An urban ecology process that occurred as early as the late 19th century in England
and was attributable among others to the railway system, a mobile middle class and the
tendency to establish housing estates/model dwellings was:
A. Suburbanization
B. Sprawl
C. Gentrification
D. Urbanization
108. What would result in overload storm water when an urban area experiences severe
storm?
A. Landslide
B. Clogged sewer lines
C. Surface water flooding
D. Erosion

109. A street pattern used in highly mountainous sites following the contours of the
topography.
A. Cul-de-Sac
B. Meandering
C. Loops
D. Geometric

110. It mandates the protection of selected areas under the direction of the PAMB that is
locally constituted and chaired by the DENR.
A.