WEEK 21 – LONG QUIZ EXAM

URBAN DESIGN 2017

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Instructions: Encircle the best answer. NO ERASURES.

1. Commonly used, carries an implication of impossibility or

unreality.
a. Utopian Planning c. Advocacy Planning
b. Imperative Planning d. Laissez-Faire

2. A city designed on the principle that transport routes should

be the main determinant of the form of plan for the city and in
which the development is arranged in a long, narrow belt on
either side of a central spine road.
a. Garden City c. TOD
b. Linear City d. Gridiron City

3. Urban spread along main roads, especially those leading to a

city.
a. Precint Planning
b. Ribbon Development
c. Parkway Development
d. Peicemeal Development

4. The land between a building and the boundary of the plot of the
plot of land on which it stands. Sometimes the term also includes
the land on which the building stands?
a. Curtilage c. Yard
b. Setback d. Catchment Area

5. The following are some of the principles of New Urbanism, except?

a. Mixed Housing
b. Decreased Density
c. Sustainability
d. Traditional Neighborhood Structure

6. This emerging theory of Urban Design, where mid-sized

developments built with the intentions of self-sustainability.
Ordinary zoning regulations can be suspended for this
particular property.
a. PUD
b. TOD
c. neighborhood planning
d. post urbanism

7. This emerging theory of Urban Design, officially defined as

mixed-used community with an average distance of 670 meters
from a transit stop and commercial core area.
a. PUD
b. TOD
c. Neighborhood Planning

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d. Post-Urbanism

8. This emerging theory of Urban Design, officially defined as mixed

used community with an average distance of 670 meters from a
transit stop and commercial core area.
a. Cluster Zoning c. Floor Space Index
b. Floor Area Ratio d. Floor Area Inder

9. General land use color code or Tourist Zone?

a. Orange c. Brown
b. Violet d. Red

10. Designer of Cite Industrielle , designed between 1898 and

1904.
a. Sir Patrick Geddes c. Victor Gruen
b. Tony Garnier d. Patrick Abercrombie

11. A 75–acre redevelopment in San Jose, California, designed by

Peter Calthorpe & Associates. Originally an industrial town,
redeveloped with new housing and commercial uses. Includes a
historic district with the city’s largest concentration of
Victorian homes.
a. Seaside c. Jackson Taylor
b. Laguna West d. Kentlands

12. New Urbanism Strategy used when redevelopment is no longer an

option while avoiding further physical expansion. Best
utilization of existing infrastructure comes from this
development strategy?
a. Adaptive Re-use
b. Infill
c. Ribbon Development
d. Piecemeal Development

13. Development that has taken place in a haphazard or sporadic

fashion in small, unrelated areas. Piecemeal development is, in
a sense, the opposite of comprehensive development except that,
in addition to being carried out in small quantities, the usage
commonly implies that it is visually as well as physically
unrelated to its surroundings.
a. Redevelopment
b. Infill
c. Ribbon Development
d. Piecemeal Development

14. In modern usage the term is applied to any area where a

minority, or deprived, group is compelled to live.
a. Ghetto c. Slum
b. Blight d. Squatter Area

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15. What masterplan is illustration 1?

a. Seaside
b. Laguna West
c. Jackson Taylor
d. Kentlands

16. These are the compactly developed and developing areas

surrounding the central city in a metropolitan area. These areas
are distinguished from the central city by their more
homogeneous socioeconomic and physical character.
a. Satellite Town c. Neighborhood Unit
b. Precint d. Suburbs

17. Urban Re-development strategy used to describe the idea of

repairing, redecorating and in some cases converting, existing
structurally sound property to a standard compatible with modern
requirements of amenity and health.
a. Urban Renewal c. Conservation
b. Rehabilitation d. Adaptive Re-use

18. Urban Re-development Strategy, the conversion of buildings

into different uses without significantly altering the
structure.
a. Urban Renewal c. Conservation
b. Rehabilitation d. Adaptive Re-use

19. A term often applied to the habit of letting things evolve in

social and economic life in an apparently natural manner and
allowing development to remain in the hands of commercial
interests. It is the reverse of planning by the state and
represents the minimum of interference by government.
a. Ekistic
b. Geometric Determinism
c. Laissez-Faire
d. Precint Planning

20. Urban land use color code for grassland / pasture Zone?
a. Green c. Light green
b. Aqua d. Olive green

21. Urban design controls, it relaxes certain restrictions if

builders and developers provide desirable public features and
amenities such as plazas, arcades, and other open spaces?
a. Incentive Zoning
b. Land Use Planning and Zoning
c. Cluster Zoning
d. Advocacy Zoning

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22. Urban models of urban growth, presents the emergence of large

self-sufficient suburban sectors, each focused on a downtown
independent of the central city?
a. zone theory
b. sector model
c. urban realms
d. multiple nuclei model

23. Urban models of urban growth, recognizes that different

activities have varying accessibility requirements?
a. concentric zone theory
b. sector model
c. urban realms
d. multiple nuclei model

24. What is the largest and simplest function of a city?

a. Economic
b. Housing
c. Transportation
d. defense and protection

25. A broad street of major importance, usually planted with

trees?
a. Avenue c. Expressway
b. Boulevard d. Freeway

26. What is the min. ROW width of Provincial road?

a. 10m c. 20m
b. 15m d. 25m

27. Urban pattern/shape. Radio-centric form with open spaces

between the outreaching corridors of development?
a. Ring c. Sheet
b. Star d. Constellation

28. Key issues in designing responsive environment according to

Ian Bentley. In the old days, important buildings stood out.
a. Permeability
b. Legibility
c. Robustness
d. Visual Appropriateness

29. Kevin Lynch image of the city. Linear elements not considered
as paths. It is visually prominent?
a. Paths c. Landmarks
b. Nodes d. Edges

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30. Assists private developers in undertaking low and middle

income mass housing production by encouraging private financial
institutions and commercial lenders to finance such developments
through certain incentives.
a. Home insurance and guarantee corp
b. Home development mutual fund
c. National home mortgage financing corp
d. HLURB

31. Sole regulatory body for housing and land development.

a. Home insurance and guarantee corp
b. NHA
c. National home mortgage financing corp
d. HLURB

32. This 37 hectare Metro Manila CBD was intended as an

alternative business center in the eastern side of the
metropolis.
a. Ortigas CBD
b. Cubao CBD
c. Fort Bonifacio Global City
d. Filinvest Corporate City

33. Which city/municipality of metro manila has the least density

(year 2015)?
a. Las pinas c. Muntinlupa
b. Velenzuela d. Paranaque

34. Walk-up housing units built for the government sector?

a. Constitutional hill
b. Phil homesite and housing corp
c. Philamlife Homes
d. BLISS

35. Meant only for housing but with a variety of housing types
lined along streets with terminating axes on civic buildings in
a large common green?
a. Letchworth
b. Brasilia
c. Welwyn
d. Hampstead garden suburbs

36. Who make the original master plan for Chandigarh India?
a. Albert Myer
b. Le Corbusier
c. Barron Hausmann
d. Sir Edward Lutyens

37. Who designed the master plan for New Delhi India?
a. Albert Myer
b. Le Corbusier

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c. Barron Hausmann
d. Sir Edward Lutyens

38. Conceptualization done by Clarence Perry and Clarence Stein

__________was defined as the physical environment wherein
social, cultural, educational and commercial are within easy
reach of each other?
a. TOD
b. PUD
c. neighborhood unit
d. city beautiful movement

39. Who proposed the linear city?

a. Soria y Mata c. Kiyonori Kikutake
b. Paolo Soleri d. Albert Myer

40. Why the Burnham plan of Manila was never fully realized?
a. limited space c. it was to grand
b. because of war d. political reason

41. Is an art and science of ordering the land uses and siting the
buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum
level of economy convenience and beauty?
a. Town planning c. City planning
b. Urban planning d. Site Planning

42. Designed Seaside, which signified the start of the New

Urbanism movement.
a. Peter Katz
b. Peter Calthorpe
c. Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
d. David Sucher and Daniel Solomon

43. Determines current housing needs

a. Housing to be replaced
b. Housing for new family formation
c. Housing for special groups
d. All listed items

44. The important period of preparation when all the key

inventions were either introduced or foreshadowed.
a. Eopolis c. Eotechnic
b. Paleotechnic d. Neotechnic

45. The main reason why the nomadic existence of early man
metamorphosed to village settlement and later to the birth of
cities.
a. Insula
b. Sustainable Development
c. True bounded City
d. Agricultural Surplus

46. This code mandates that all Local Government Units shall
prepare their comprehensive land use plans and enact them
through zoning ordinances.

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a. Local Government Code, 1992 R.A. 7161

b. Local Government Code, 1993 R.A. 7260
c. Local Government Code, 1994 R.A. 7162
d. Local Government Code, 1991 R.A. 7160

47. A term coined by Patrick Geddes to describe a large

concentration of urban communities.
a. Megalopolises
b. Conurbation
c. Metropolitan
d. Threshold population

48. Means an area enclosed by a boundary – either real, imaginary,

or legally defined; it also designates, more vaguely, the
immediate surroundings of a religious or other building.
a. Precint
b. Sense of place
c. Block-boosting
d. District

49. The art and science of arranging the uses of portions of land.
These uses are designated in detail by selecting and analyzing
sites, forming land use plans, organizing vehicular and
pedestrian circulation, developing visual form and materials
concepts, readjusting the existing landforms by design grading,
providing proper drainage, and developing the construction
details necessary to carry out the projects.
a. Urban planning
b. Urban design
c. City planning
d. Site planning

50. A process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages.

In contrast to architecture, which focuses on the design of
individual buildings, it deals with the larger scale of groups
of buildings, streets and public spaces, whole neighborhoods and
districts, and entire cities, with the goal of making urban
areas functional, attractive, and sustainable.
a. Site planning
b. Urban planning
c. Urban design
d. City planning
e.

51. The following are Doxiadis defined five elements of human

settlements or ekistics elements, which are essential for an
inclusive approach to human settlements.
a. Man, society, nature, shells, networks
b. Man, neighborhood, nature, roads, landscape
c. Man, housing, roads, nature, amenities
d. Man, nature, housing, transportation, nature

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52. What planning concept is Illustration 2?

a. PUD
b. TOD
c. neighborhood planning
d. post urbanism

53. It is a “forcing” the old population out of the area because

of social or racial differences.
a. Gentrification
b. Invasion
c. Block-boosting
d. Conurbation

54. What planning concept is Illustration 3?

a. Raburn plan
b. Neighborhood Unit
c. Une Cité Industrielle
d. New Urbanism

55. It is centered on two churches (Our Lady of Loreto and Saint

Anthony of Padua). Also known as the first “University Town
a. Pandacan
b. Sampaloc
c. Malate
d. San Miguel

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