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Planning Q 1
Planning Q 1
A. Park
B. Open Space
C. Greenbelt
D. Plaza
2. Usually the last stage of the final site development process prior to issuance of building
permit.
A. Site Development Plan
B. Landscaping
C. Final Design Brief
D. Final Plat
3. A 20th century problem emanating from rapid urbanization of areas surrounding a city
which eats up the remaining adjacent rural open spaces.
A. Urban Development
B. Urban Sprawl
C. Urban gentrification
D. Urban Blight
4. A type of planning which emphasizes that the proper role of the planner is not to serve the
general public interest but rather to serve the interests of the least fortunate or least well
represented groups in society.
A. Advocacy Planning
B. Social Planning
C. Strategic Planning
D. Sectoral Planning
5. In the Philippines, this type of land use planning emphasizes the proper management of
land resources to ensure that the present generation can benefit from its continued use
without compromising future generations.
A. Coastal Resource Planning
B. Land Use Planning
C. Sustainable Land Use Planning
D. Strategic Planning
6. This code mandates that all Local Government Units shall prepare their comprehensive land
use plans and enact them through zoning ordinances.
A. HLURB Code
B. Local Government Code
C. Civil Code
D. Land Use Code
7. Phrase used to characterize development that meets the needs of the present generation
without compromising the needs of the future generations.
A. Planned Development
B. Sustainable Development
C. Development-Oriented
D. Sectoral Development
10. The main reason why the nomadic existence of early man metamorphosed to village
settlement and later to the birth of cities.
A. Development of Motor
B. Population Explosion
C. Agricultural Surplus
D. Housing Provision
11. The rough equivalent of the present tenement cities that existed in ancient Rome, which
resulted from the population growth of the city and the congestion that existed in streets.
A. Tenema
B. Insula
C. Agoras
D. Domus
12. In urban geography, a concept where urban settlement is confined to the area within the
legal limits of the city and the congestion and virtually all of this area is occupied by urban
residents.
A. City Core
B. Urban Center
C. City Limits
D. Truebounded City
16. A tool used to control the manner in which raw land is subdivided and placed on the market
for residential development.
A. Zoning Regulations
B. Deed Restrictions
C. Subdivision Regulations
D. Housing Regulations
17. A profession which falls between planning and architecture. It deals with the large-scale
organization and design of the city, with the massing and organization and the space
between them, but not with the design of the individual buildings.
A. City Planning
B. Urban Design
C. Urban Theorists
D. City Administration
18. Planning for roads, bridges, schools, parking structures, pubic buildings, water supply, land
waste disposal facilities.
A. Capital Facilities Planning
B. Utilities Planning
C. Physical Planning
D. Transport Planning
19. The container of man, which consists of both the natural and man-made or artificial
element.
A. Networks
B. Links
C. Physical Settlement
D. Structures
20. A spatial organization concept a general view of the pattern of land use in a city developed
by Ernest W. Burgess. The city is conceived as a series of five concentric zones with the cores
as the central business district and fanning out from which are the residential and
commuter zones.
21. The remaining space in a lot after deducting the required minimum open spaces.
A. Setback
B. Buildable Area
C. Yard
D. Building Mass
22. A habitable room for 1 family only with facilities for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating.
A. Single Detached Unit
B. Dwelling Unit
C. Living Unit
D. Home Unit
23. This is a type of a retaining wall made of rectangular baskets made of galvanized steel wire
or PVC-coated wire hexagonal mesh which are filled with stones to form a wall.
A. Riprap
B. Gabion Wall
C. Rock Wall
D. Mesh Wall
25. A piece of grassy land, especially one used for growing hay or as pasture for grazing animals;
low grassy land near a river or stream.
A. Farmland
B. Terrain
C. A&D Land
D. Meadow
28. On land, an encumbrance limiting its use; usually imposed for community or mutual
protection.
A. Parcel
B. Restriction
C. Zoning
D. Density
29. . Of land, a contiguous land area which is considered as a unit, which is subject to a single
ownership, and which is legally recorded as a single piece.
A. Platting
B. Land Partition
C. Parcel
D. TCT
30. A wall that serves 2 dwelling units, known also as party wall.
A. Common Wall
B. Fire Wall
C. Fire Block
D. Abuttment
31. Niemeyer believed that relating large areas to each other is freedom as in the planned city
of___.
A. Chandigarh
B. Stalingrad
C. Chicago
D. Brasilia
32. In architectural terms, it is the relationship of the number of residential structures and
people to a given amount of space.
A. Zoning
B. Density
C. Floor Area Ratio
D. Floor to Lot Area Ratio
33. The government arm responsible for the development and implementation of low cost
housing in the Philippines.
A. National Housing Authority
B. HLURB
C. National Shelter Program
D. Housing Agencies
34. A written agreement between parties, but it allows a specific period during which the buyer
can investigate the property and make a decision.
35. Sometimes called "subscription money", this is a deposit given to the seller to show that the
potential buyer has serious intentions.
A. Earnest Money
B. Draft Money
C. Initial Installment
D. Equity
36. A provision made in advance for the gradual liquidation of a future obligation by periodic
charges against the capital account.
A. Interest
B. Surcharges
C. Amortization
D. Equity