1 The act of defining the allocation, utilization, and development and management of lands within a

given territory of jurisdiction according to the inherent qualities of land itself and supportive of
sustainable, economic, demographic, socio cultural, and environmental objectives.

a. Site planning
b. Land planning
c. Urban planning
d. Master planning

2 A comprehensive data base describing the geographical, biological, and socio-economic environment
and their relationship in a geographical unit.

a. Comprehensive plan
b. Master plan
c. Site development plan
d. Area ecological profile

3 The map that serves as a working map and provides the standard configuration of planning units for
the preparation of thematic maps. Shows such features as political boundaries, main river streams, main
road system, and other important topographic features.

a. Derived map
b. Base map
c. General map
d. Thematic map

4 In the four policy areas of the CLUP, urban town centers are considered part of protected areas

a. Settlement areas
b. Infrastructure areas
c. Production areas
d. Entertainment areas

5 The phlippine ecological solid waste management act (PESWMA) of 2000

a. RA 9003
b. RA 8749
c. RA 7586
d. RA 9275

6 In the four policy areas of the CLUP, croplands are considered part of

a. Protected areas
b. Settlement areas
c. Infrastructure areas
d. Production areas

7 The national integrated protected areas system (NIPAS) act of 1992

a. RA 9003
b. RA 8749
c. RA 7586
 d. RA 9275

8 This development option is needed in order to address the dependence of communities on forest
resources

a. Community based forest management

b. Agricultural
c. Tourism
d. Costal areas

9 This urban stereotype is characterized by a dominant core surrounded by secondary centers

distributed along main radials

a. Dispersed sheet
b. Galaxy of settlements
c. Urban star
d. Core city

10 In this urban stereotype, development is packed into one continuous body

a. Dispersed sheet
b. Galaxy of settlements
c. Urban star
d. Core city

11 The development option chosen by cities and municipalities with natural attractions

a. Agricultural
b. Industrialization
c. Tourism
d. Commercial

12 A land supply management strategy that involves producing new urban land by filling or draining
portions of waterfront areas

a. Infilling
b. Urban renewal/development
c. Densification
d. Reclamation

13 A land supply management strategy that involves increasing density of buildings per land surface
area as indicated by the floor-area ratio (FAR)

a. Infilling
b. Urban redevelopment
c. Densification
d. Agricultural land conversion

14 The long-term guide for the physical development of the local areas, the framework for the
management and co-management of the local territory.

a. ELA
 b. CLUP
c. CDP
d. CLPD

15 A polynuceated metropolitan area that includes a number of identifiable municipalities that have
merged.

a. Conurbation
b. Urban sprawl
c. Segregation
d. Decentralization

16 An urban design concept that refers to the need to maintain a balance between new development
and the existing natural or man-made environment

a. Design fit
b. Design philosophy
c. Design concept
d. Design problem

17 Street classified a CARDO or the north-south orientation and DECUMANOS or the east-west street
orientation

a. Roman street layout

b. Greek street layout
c. Egyptian street layout
d. West asia street layout

18 Which of the following is not an element of legibility in Kevin Lynch Image of the City?

a. Nodes and landmarks

b. Edges and paths
c. Districts
d. City capital

19 Element if urban form which are considered channels where observer customarily, occasionally or
potentially moves.

a. Landmark
b. District
c. Edges
d. Path

20 Are medium to large sections of the city, conceived of as having two dimensional extent, which the
observer mentally enters the “inside of” and which are recognizable as having some common identifying
character.

a. Landmark
b. District
c. Edges
d. Path
21 Are points, strategic spots in the city into which the observer can enter, which are the intensive foci
to and from which he is travelling

a. Landmark
b. District
c. Edges
d. Path

22 These are point of references but in this case, the observer does not enter within them, They are
simply defined physical objects, buildings, stone and mountains

a. Landmark
b. District
c. Edges
d. Path

23 Component of the urban form that connect spaces and places. They are defined by their physical
dimension and character as well as the size and scale of the building that line along them

a. Street
b. Transportation
c. Landscape
d. Public open spaces

24 Component of the urban form considered the green part of the city comprising park, trees, plants,
etc

a. Street
b. Transportation
c. Landscape
d. Public open spaces

25 Element of urban aesthetics which may be man-made or natural. It is the focal point or terminus that
is strongly emphasized and is framed and balanced by minor element forming masses to enclose it.

a. Vista
b. Landmark
c. Edge
d. District

26 A development concept focusing on land regulation which promote large scale unified land
development by means of mid-range, realistic program in case of physically curable social and economic
deficiencies in land and cityscapes

a. Planned unit development

b. Urban renewal
c. Gentrification
d. On-site improvement

27 Urban development concept which is typically involved destruction of businesses, relocation of

people use of eminent domain and renewal of residential slums
 a. Planned unit development
b. Urban renewal
c. Gentrification
d. On-site improvement

28 A spatial concept consisting of a small residential area, considerable social interaction between
neighbors and some degree of homogeneity.

a. Neighborhood concept
b. City concept
c. Regional concept
d. Metropolitan concept

29 The art of arranging structures on the land and shaping the spaces in between. An art linked to
architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering and city planning. Site plans locate objects and
activities in space and time.

a. Urban planning
b. Landscape architecture
c. Site planning
d. Community planning

30 It is an art and science of designing the outdoor space for biological and psychological well-being of
man. The outdoor space design is basically inspired by the beauty of nature and supported by the
science of engineering.

a. Urban planning
b. Landscape architecture
c. Site planning
d. Community planning

31 The public document showing information such as ownership of the land, location, needed to start
the activity of site planning

a. Transfer certificate title

b. Deed of sale
c. Certificate of lease
d. Real state certificate

32 Formulated as early as the first stage of the planning process and up to the analysis stage containing
the vague, generalized statements on what to achieve at the end of the planning process.

a. Goal
b. Objective
c. User program
d. Site inventory

33 Formulated as early as the first stage of the planning process and up to the analysis stage containing
doable, specific, achievable, prioritized activities on what to achieve at the end of the process

a. Goal
 b. Objective
c. User program
d. Site inventory

34 A cultural information which is considered as a legal tool in implementing city plans

a. Zoning
b. Land use
c. Subdivision regulation
d. Ordinance

35 A legal tool which contains and regulates the development of real estates by requiring developers to
meet specific requirements and design standards that are established so a plot can be recorded and lots
be sold.

a. Zoning
b. Land use
c. Subdivision regulation
d. Ordinance

36 Which of the following is not needed for classification of soil in the site planning and landscape
architecture?

a. As a requirement for plant habitat

b. Absorption for playing field, street and parking
c. Material for sculptural work
d. Recreation, dwelling, ponds and reservoir absorption of soil

37 Which of the following is not an information on hydrology?

a. Aquifer
b. Marshes
c. Swampland
d. Fish pond

38 Which of the following is not an information on traffic?

a. Origin-destination
b. Volume of traffic and people
c. Purpose of travel
d. Number of traffic enforcers

39 Which of the following is not covered by zoning?

a. Height and bulk of buildings

b. Land use activities
c. Setback
d. Building budget

40 Pertains to the information about age, gender, socio-economic status, income.

a. Demographic profile
 b. Land use
c. Zoning
d. Vista

41 Reshaping of the ground of the site to achieve more suitable topography for buildings, facilities, and
other land uses; helps to control surface runoff, soil erosion, sedimentation during and after
construction.

a. Landscaping
b. Surveying
c. Grading
d. Staking

42 The type of grading done in golf courses

a. Geomorphic
b. Naturalistic
c. Natural
d. Architectonic

43 The shape of ground forming part of the architectural design of a structure

a. Geomorphic
b. Naturalistic
c. Natural
d. Architectonic

44 Explain gentrification.

a. Process of invasion wherein the rich and those who can afford occupy substandard housing or
industrial environment
b. A social economic change within an area focusing on poor population move into standard
housing or indsutrial neighborhood
c. People and activities concentrate in one area
d. Grouping of people with the same economic status, ethnicity, economic activities

45 Which of the following is not a description of garden city concept?

a. Compact development with greenbelt encircling it

b. 58,000 population for the main city and 30,000 for the satellite cities
c. Self-sustained community where ever citizen is given one acre of land for agriculture
d. A green community where the primary industry is vegetable and cut-flower industry hence got
its name

46 Determine, from the following statements, the characteristic which is not a description of the British
new town movement?

a. Inspired by the garden city concept of Howard

b. Planned town with houses, employment, shopping, recreation, workplace, and other facilities
c. Neoclassical styles of civic buildings aligned the boulevard
d. Neighborhood concept
47 Which of the following does not fit the description of a Planned Unit Development

a. Comprehensive planning as whole

b. Compact, clustering of structures to preserve usable open spaces
c. Mixture of housing types and residential units
d. Segregation of residential znoes according to income, commercial areas, and open spaces at
periphery

48 Which of the following is not a description of city beautiful movement of the Columbian exposition?

a. Buildings of neo-classical style along major routes

b. Presence of mixed use structures in neo-classical style
c. Presence of landscaped boulevards and plazas and parks
d. With water features and grand public spaces

49 The science of human settlement developed by constantinos doxiades, a greek architect and planner.
This study emphasizes

a. The importance in which human beings function in all of their environments to enable better
planning to take place
b. The relationship of human beings or the biotic to the abiotic environment
c. The relationship of human beings to their social environment
d. The relationship of human beings to the economic environment

50 Which of the following is not included in the Growth theory?

a. Generalization from studies of urban geography concering location theory

b. City growth
c. Land use patterns within cities and regions
d. Decline of cities

51 Describe the characteristic of the ancient Greek cities

a. The layout of the street was straight with intersections at more or less 90 degrees known as
Hippodamian layout
b. The layout of streets was radial since all major streets were radiating towards the center which
is the Agora
c. The layout of the street was curvillinear since Greece is mountanious, street followed the
contour of the terrain
d. The streets were linear becaues of Greek coastal towns

52 Describe the behavious of people having ‘sense of place’ in urban design

a. Allows people to orient themselves to a unique area

b. Helps people to identify with other people
c. Helps people to establish friendship with the place
d. Separates people from place

53 In the study of kevin lynch, the image of the city (1960), he used the LEGIBILITY as is a a term used to
describe

a. The ease with which people can understand the layout of a place
 b. The economic status of people as consideration for their position of space
c. The political status of people as a consideration for their position of space
d. Ecological condition of the space as occupancy determinant for people

54 Which of the following is not a description of variety as an element for the responsive environment?

a. Mixed-use shopping, housing, business, commercial area

b. Compatible activities and services
c. Human experieneces present in a given space
d. People and activities are segregated according to certain criteria and standard

55 Describe the idea of Ian Bentley in ‘Responsive Environment’

a. The greater the number of alternative routes through an environment, the greater the people’s
freedom of movement and therefore the greater the responsiveness of the place
b. The cheaper the transport fare, the greater the people’s freedom of movement and therefore
the greater the responsiveness of the place
c. The more private cars, the greater the people’s freedom of movement and therefore the greater
the responsiveness of the place
d. The more traffic enforces, the greater the people’s fre freedom of movement and therefore the
greater the responsiveness of the place

56 Describe the most economical way of site grading is

a. The cut is more than the fill

b. The cut is more or less equal to the fill
c. The fill is more than the cut
d. No cut so that there is no fill

57 Explain the underlying principle in providing easement or the public spaces besides natural bodies

a. The community enjoys the benefit of the natural resource

b. The barangay, city or municipality can use the easement for LGU projects like barangay hall
c. The community can use the space for extension of their domestic activites like laundry
d. The space, since it is public, can be used for housing for the informal settlers

58 What will the urban designer specify the width of each sidewalk if the RROW is 10 meters or less?

a. 1.50 m
b. 2.00 m
c. 1.20 m
d. 2.50 m

59 In estimating the width of the planting strip for a street, the uran design must consider the
requirements of the National building code that the width of the planting strip is based on

a. width of the carriageway

b. width of the road right of way
c. species of the planting material
d. volume of vehicles

60 Describe a walkalble street?

 a. Has active store front
b. Has 24 hour activity
c. Has weather protection and consideration
d. Has principal arterial road

61 Examine the grid layout of street applied by Hippodamus in Greece

a. The street layout did not consider the wind and sun orientation
b. The street layout did not consider the terrain which resulted to streets with steps
c. The street layout did not consider the cost of construction
d. The street layout did not consider the users of the area

62 Compare mecca, medina, and medieval cities. All these represents

a. Linear layout of cities

b. Star shape layout of cities
c. Radiocentric layout of cities
d. Constellation

63 Select, from the statements below, the types of street layout/that does not fit the description during
the medieval times?

a. Radiating outside the center which was composed of the castle and cathedrals
b. Meandering confuse the enemies
c. Grid layout for ease access of citizens form one place to another
d. Heavily vegetated

64 Which of the following contradicts the principle of New Urbanism of 1993?

a. To create compact, mixed-use development

b. To promote walkable, transit-oriented developments in local communities
c. To promote the cycle of urban sprawl
d. To enhance the concept of neighborliness, a strong emhpasis on the community

65 Who among the following did not share the new communities movement to urban design?

a. Metabolism group
b. Louis mumford
c. Clarence stein
d. Henry wright

66 Who among the following urban designers/landscape architects was not an advovate of
conservationist and park movement?

a. George perkin march

b. Frederick law olmstead
c. Daniel burnham
d. Soria y mata

67 What is common characteristic of these cities accd’g to functions: Mecca, vatican, jerusalem,
medina?
 a. Entertainment cities
b. Production centers
c. Pilgrim cities
d. Production centers

68 Categorize the following factors: BP 220, PD957, R-1, R-2, NBC

a. Cultural factors
b. Aesthetic factors
c. Natural factors
d. Environmental factors

69 In analyzing slope, the formula is

a. Slope is the vertical distance divided by horiontal distance multiplied by one hundred percent
b. Slope is the horizontal distance divided by vertical distance multiplied by one hundred percent
c. Slope is the interval divided by one hundred percent multiplied by the horizontal distance
d. Slope is the run over rise multiplied by one hundred percent

70 Break down the process of coming up with a slope map

a. Using contour map, compute slope using S=V/h x 100%

b. Using the base map, compute the slope using S-V/h x 100%
c. Using the ridge map, compute the slope using S-V/h x 100%
d. Elevation map, compute slope usng S-V/h x 100%

71 Categorize the following: golf courses, chinese and japanese gardens are fine examples of what type
of grading?

a. Architectonic
b. Natural
c. Naturalistic
d. Geomorphic

72 Which of the following imposed plaza as an important public space in the early planning of cities in
the Philippines?

a. Laws of garden cities

b. Laws of city beautiful movement
c. Laws of park movement
d. Laws of indies

73 Which of the following is not an activity in a plaza?

a. Socializing
b. People watching
c. Viewing the world as time passes by
d. Playing basketball

74 Which of the following is not a description of a plaza?

a. More hardscaping than softscaping

 b. More softscaping than hardscaping
c. Street as boundaries/enclosures
d. Buildings as boundaries/enclosures

75 Determine below the statement that fits the description of parks and gardens

a. Living room of the city

b. Lungs of the city
c. Production center of the city
d. Disposal center of the city

76 Determine below the statement fits the description of plaza

a. Living room of the city

b. Lungs of the city
c. Production center of the city
d. Disposal center of the city

77 An urban designer plans an interesting street if the layout is

a. Straight at 90 degrees intersection

b. Meandering
c. Zigzag
d. Slightly curved

78 In making the streets efficient, plan the street with the minimum angle at

a. 10
b. 60
c. 20
d. 0

79 To prevent blind spots that resulted to accidents, site planner should shape site with

a. setback
b. chaflan
c. easement
d. variance

80 How will an urban design plan a street following the principle of no dead ends?

a. Incorporate turn about in the street layout

b. Use cul-de-sac
c. Use loop layout
d. Use grid layout

81 How will an urban design plan a street following the principle of less cross intersections

a. Incoroprate turn about in the street layout

b. Use cul-de-sac
c. Use loop layout
d. Use grid layout
82 According to the NBC, what will be the distance of entry and exits of sites for shopping centers
located at major intersections?

a. 50 m from intersection
b. 100 m from intersection
c. 50 ft from intersection
d. 100 ft from intersection

83 Specify parking lot dimension for PWD according to BP 344

a. 3.70m x 5.00m
b. 3.75m x 6.00m
c. 2.50m x 5.00m
d. 2.50m x 6.00m

84 Present the most effective location for the parking slot for the PWD?

a. Parking slot should be near the security guard

b. Parking slot should be near the building entrances
c. Parking slot should be near the site gates
d. Parking slot should be near the back door

85 Specify the parking lot dimension for jeepney and shuttle

a. 3.70m x 5.00m
b. 3.90m x 9.00m
c. 3.0m x 9.00m
d. 3.60m x 12.00m

86 One approach in lessening the island heat effct in urban areas is

a. green roof, green wall

b. use of solar panel
c. use of rainwater harvesting approach
d. recycling, reuse and reduce

87 The principle of aesthetics applied to landscape architecture where the landscaping materials and
elements sizes are related according to human body

a. symmetry
b. repetition
c. scale
d. proportion

88 The principe of aesthetics applied to landscape architecture where landscape materials and elements
are specified in moderation

a. symmetry
b. variety
c. simplicity
d. balance
89 Landscape component involving the provision of facilities to adequately remove surface and sub-
surface water

a. waterscape
b. landscape
c. drainage
d. irrigation

90 Landscape component involving the provision of facilites necessary to water all planned areas

a. waterscape
b. landcape
c. drainage
d. irrigation

91 Which of the following is not part of the hardscape in landscape architecture?

a. Fences
b. Gates
c. Driveways
d. Benches

92 Specify plant species is good for hedges

a. Narra
b. Santan
c. Carabao grass
d. Acacia

93 Specify plant species for an aroma therapy garden

a. Sampaguita
b. Santan
c. Gumamela
d. Calachuchi

94 What will you specify as, hardscape element, a structure to define outdoor living activity?

a. Grotto
b. Lawn
c. Pergola
d. Meadow

95 Specify a garden element which uses plant material as medium for sculpural work

a. Toplary
b. Grotto
c. Hedge
d. Carpet bedding

96 Specify a garden element as a bed or cover the ground and place the logo of the company using the
plant material
 a. Carpet bedding
b. Maze
c. Hedge
d. Lawn

97 Specify the planting material for carpet bedding

a. Calachuchi
b. Sampaguita
c. Boungainvilla
d. Purple heart

98 Specifiy shade tree for park

a. Aratilis
b. Coconut
c. Banana
d. Mahogany

99 What will you specify as garden type for outdoor sports like croquet, football.. etc

a. Lawn
b. Carpet bedding
c. Meadow
d. Parterre

100 What will you specify for soil stabilization as a protective cover placed over the soil, to retain
moisturem reduce erosiom, supress weed growth.. etc

a. Mulch
b. Sandbag
c. Retaining wall
d. Piling