1.

Urban Planner and Designer famous for his words “Make no b) the White City
little plans, they have no magic to stir men’s blood”: c) World Cities Expo
a) Le Corbusier d) City Beautiful Movement
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Parsons 15. Designed the reconstruction of Paris using the principles of the
d) Ebenezer Howard city beautiful movement:
a) John Nash
2. Acknowledged as the oldest continually inhabited city in the b) Daniel Burnham
world: c) Charles Buckingham
a) Babylon d) Baron Hausmann
b) Eridu
c) Damascus 16. Designed Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil during the City
d) Athens Beautiful era:
a) Albert Meyer
3. The first planned park in the United States b) Edward Lutyens
a) Golden Gate Park, San Francisco c) Walter Griffin
b) Central Park, New York d) Lucio Costa
c) Yosemite Park, California
d) Washington Park, Chicago 17. Frank Lloyd Wright’s project proposal that would allot one
acre of land to each American family:
4.The largest city of the Yellow River Valley of China: a) Le Contemporaine
a) Anyang b) Unite D Habitation
b) Gheijin c) Broadacres
c) Sunru Ghin d) Acreville
d) Beijing
18. Proposed the Linear City that would serve as a satellite to the
5.Designer of the European Planned City of Savannah in Georgia, city of Madrid:
USA: a) Jose Marseilles
a) Frederick Law Olmstead b) Diego San Andres
b) Col. Frank Nicholson c) Soria Y Mata
c) Charles Fourier d) Felipe Selecios
d) James Oglethorpe
19. Proposed the “Arcology Alternative” or 3D city:
6.The first city that signified the rise of the church, with the church a) Soria Y Mata
being an integral part of its urban design: b) Paolo Soleri
a) Rome c) Frank Lloyd Wright
b) Constantinople d) Kiyonori Kikutake
c) Madrid
d) Versailles 20. Proposed the first “Floating City” asan alternative to land
reclamation:
7. The military towns of Spanishsettlements: a) Soria Y Mata
a) laws of the Indies b) Paolo Soleri
b) pueblo c) Frank Lloyd Wright
c) presidio d) Kiyonori Kikutake
d) missions
21. Believed that planning should first start at the micro level and
8. The first noted urban planner because of his design of the city of thus designed the “neighborhood unit”:
Miletus: a) Clarence Perry and Clarence Stein
a) Vitruvius b) Ebenezer Howard
b) Hippodamus c) Frank Lloyd Wright & Louis Sulliven
c) Damascus d) Louis Kahn
d) Paleo
22. The shape of urban cities formed by two corridors of intense
9. The best representation of the “speculators town” of the development crossing the center:
settlements in early America: a) radiocentric
a) Charleston b) rectilinear
b) Williamsburg c) articulated sheet
c) Philadelphia d) linear
d) New York City
23. Acknowledged as the icon of middle class suburbanization
10. Leader of the Reform Movements during the Industrial during the 1950s:
Revolution: a) projects 1 to 8
a) Robert Owens b) Philam-life Homes
b) Ebenezer Howard c) Forbes Park
c) James Oglethorpe d) Quezon City
d) Soria Y Mata
24. Largest in land area among MetroManila’s 12 cities:
11. Author of “Tomorrow: a Peaceful Path to Social Reform” and a) City of Manila
main proponent of the Garden Cities: b) Kalookan City
a) Robert Owen c) Quezon City
b) Ebenezer Howard
c) James Oglethorpe 25. Among Lynch’s elements of the city, these are defined as lateral
d) Soria Y Mata references that are not coordinate axes:
a) paths
12.The first garden city designed by Raymund Unwin and Barry b) edges
Parker: c) nodes
a) Welwyn d) districts
b) Hampstead
c) Letcheworth 26. Among Lynch’s elements of the city, these are defined as
d) Windsor intensive foci from which the observer is traveling:
a) paths
13.Designed the Garden City of Welwyn: b) edges
a) Unwin and Parker c) nodes
b) Ebenezer Howard d) districts
c) Louis de Soisson
d) Clarence Perry 27. The third level of Ian Bentley’s responsive environments;
important in terms of physical form and activity patterns:
14.World fair in Chicago in 1891, setting off the City Beautiful a) permeability
Era: b) legibility
a) the Columbian Exposition c) robustness
d) richness a) Grid Iron
28.According to Ian Bentley, responsive environments that focus b) Radial on Grid iron
on details, with a wide vocabulary of visual cues possess: c) Curvilinear
a) legibility d) Radial super blocks
b) variety
c) visual appropriateness 42. Local collector street
d) personalization a) Pick up traffic from local residential streets in one
neighborhood
29. Designed Seaside, which signified the start of the New b) Circumventing neighborhoods
Urbanism movement: c) Major arteries & inter-neighborhood streets
a) Peter Katz d) Solely for residential area served
b) Peter Calthorpe
c) Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk 43. Zoning law of the U.S.
d) David Sucher and Daniel Solomon a) 1916
b) 1945
30. According to Tonnies, what type of community life is one in c) 1900
which impersonal, superficial & business-like relationships d) 1930
prevail?
a) Rural 44. Gemeinschaft Community
b) Gesellschaft a) Intimate neighborly relationships prevail
c) Damay b) Impersonal/Superficial relationships prevail
d) Gemeinschaft c) Urban Environment
d) Business-like relationship predominate
31. Determines current housing needs:
a) Housing to be replaced 45. Residential density
b) All listed items a) Families per neighborhood
c) Housing for new family formation b) Families per dwelling unit
d) Housing for special groups c) Families per square block

32. Type of urban ecological process in land use planning 46. What part of basic data and planning studies in a
patterning in cities or communities defined as the entrance of a comprehensive development plan describes the physical setting of
new population and / or facilities into an occupied area the community or region?
a) Succession a) economic base study
b) Concentration b) land use survey and inventory
c) Invasion c) man-made features
d) Decentralization d) history and geography

33. Gesellschaft Community: 47. Economist who developed the sector model of urban growth
a.) Transitory sort of secondary group contacts prevail and development:
b) Rural environment a) E.W. Burgess
c) Primary group contacts predominate b) Homer Hoyt
d) Intimate neighborly relationships prevail c) Chauncey Harris
d) James Vance
34. Describes housing shortage or backlog:
a) Difference between no. of acceptable housing & number of 48. The urban model of growth and development that presents the
families emergence of self-sufficient sectors:
b) All listed items a) concentric zone model
c) Housing for new family formation b) sector model
d) Housing produced minus existing housing c) multiple nuclei model
d) urban realms model
35. In the increase of urban population, which of the following
factors indicates excess of in-migration over out-migration? 49. Density control method that regulates the proportions between
a) Natural Increase the built area of the building and the lot area:
b) Concentration a) number of occupants per square meter
c) Net Migration b) number of occupants per floor
d) Reclassification c) floor area ratio
d) floor space index
36. Factors indicating Net Migration:
a) Excess of births over deaths 50. a general term to describe the idea of consciously renewing the
b) Excess in young population outworn areas of towns and cities:
c) Excess of in-migration over out-migration a) historic preservation
d) Rural areas having achieved urban status b) urban renewal
c) adaptive reuse
37. Urban design control that allows builders and developers more d) urban gentrification
space if they provide desirable features such as plazas, arcades,
and other open spaces: 51. A mixed use community with an average 670 meter distance of
a) flexible zoning a transit stop and commercial core area:
b) incentive zoning a) transit oriented development
c) cluster zoning b) traditional neighborhood development
d) land use planning c) planned unit development
d) new urbanism
38. Intersections that separate lanes of traffic by use of islands
a) channelization 52. A group of architects, planners, and urban designers formed to
b) rotaries educate citizens worldwide of the benefits of new urbanism:
c) clover leafs a) the Council for New Urbanism
d) diamonds b) the Congress for New Urbanism
c) the New Urbanism Movement
39. Pioneer of city center pedestrian shopping areas in America: d) the Association of New Urbanists
a) Patrick Abercrombie
b) Walter Griffin 53. According to the theory of New Urbanism, neighborhoods must
c) Victor Gruen have a discernible center within a five minute walk of all dwellings,
d) John Nash and equivalent to:
a) 200 to 300 meters
40. What major problem brought about the discipline of city b) 300 to 500 meters
planning? c) 600 to 700 meters
a) Physical chaos d) approximately 1 kilometer
b) Urban growth
c) Land value 54. Minimum width of sidewalks, according to New Urbanism
d) Crime principles:
41. Basic subdivision design a) 1.20 meters
b) 2.00 meters
c) 2.50 meters 68. The rate at which water within the soil moves through a given
d) 3.00 meters volume of material (measured in cm or inches per hour):
a) drainage
55. Required study before developers are issued Environment b) infiltration
Compliance Certificates c) percolation
a) E.I.A. d) permeability
b) E.C.C.
c) E.I.S. 69. Angle at which soil can be safely inclined and beyond which it will
d) Building permit fail:
a) angle of incidence
56. Run down industrial area in San Jose, California redeveloped b) angle of repose
by Peter Calthorpe: c) right angle
a) Laguna West d) 45 degree angle
b) Jackson-Taylor
c) Kentlands 70. Angle of slopes considered as gentle to mild slopes and
d) Windsor moderately difficult:
a) 0 to 5%
57. Architect and Urban Designer who worked on the design of b) 5 to 10%
Shanghai; author of “Designing Cities”: c) 10 to 15%
a) Edmund Bacon d) 15 to 20%
b) Jane Jacobs
c) Camillo Sitte 71. The following are natural factors taken into account for site
d) Peter Wong analysis, except for:
a) geology
58. Rocks produced by crystallization from a liquid: b) geomorphology
a) igneous rocks c) history
b) sedimentary rocks d) hydrology
c) metamorphosed rocks
d) none of the above 72. Angle of slopes considered gently rolling and moderately
buildable:
59. Which of the following indicates good site planning? a) 0 to 5%
a) best orientation b) 5 to 10%
b) all items listed c) 10 to 15%
c) efficient maintenance d) 15 to 20%
d) maximized land use / space
73. In the sector model, housing closest to Central Business
60. Which of the following indicates good site planning? District:
a) maximum land use a) low income
b) cost efficient b) middle class
c) all items listed c) high income
d) efficient circulation d) institutional

61. Which of the following indicates good site planning?

a) best orientation
b) cost efficient
c) all items listed
d) controlled environmental hazards

62. Imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the

surface of the land above or below a reference surface such as the
mean sea level.
a) topography
b) contours
c) elevation
d) slope

63. the study of the classification of types and uses of soil for site
analyses:
a) geology
b) geomorphology
c) physiography
d) hydrology

64. The allowable bearing capacity, measured in psf, of massive

crystalline bedrock, e.g. granite and gneiss:
a) 20,000
b) 30,000
c) 80,000
d) 200,000

65. The allowable bearing capacity, measured in psf, of stiff dry

clay:
a) 5,000
b) 8,000
c) 15,000
d) 25,000

66. The approximate size of one sand particle:

a) 0.50 mm
b) 0.75 mm
c) 1.00 mm
d) 1.25 mm

67. The rate of at which water penetrates the soil surface (usually
measured in cm or inches per hour):
a) drainage
b) infiltration
c) percolation
d) permeability