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1. Urbanization began around 4,000 BC in the
2. GREEKS - They understood the importance of
transportation and thus emerges as the first
regional planners of the world.
3. RADIANT CITY - Le Corbusier proposed this
type of development that is anchored on the
objective of decongesting the centers of our
cities by increasing their densities by building
high on small part of the total ground area.
4. CUL-DE-SAC - A residential motor court
around which housing may be arranged.
5. COMMERCIAL - It shall refer to areas
designated principally for trade, services and
business purposes.
6. LINEAR CITY - Arturo Soria y Mata
suggested this type of development running from
Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St.
Petersburg in which he proposed that the logic of
linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-
out.
7. C-3 - An area intended for regional shopping
centers such as large shopping malls and other
regional commercial activities, high-rise hotels,
sports stadium or sports complexes.
8. CITY BEAUTIFUL ERA - This is 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.
9. VITRUVIUS - He is the author of the 10-
volume treatise "de Arkitektura" which relates
experience of Roman architecture and town
planning.
10. RADIOCENTRIC - The most frequent shape
of a city, a large circle with radial corridors of
intense development emanating from the center.
area known as the FERTILE CRESENT
11. BRANCH - This two corridors of intense
development crosses at the center and is usually
found in small cities
12. RENAISSANCE - It was during this period
that the concept of urban design was established.
13. RADIOCENTRIC - This type of development
pattern emerged as towns grew around a
monastery or castle during the medieval times.
14. RELIGION - What was the most important
factor in designing settlement patterns during the
Spanish Period in the Philippines.
15. SPECIAL INSTITUTIONAL ZONE - This
zone is for particular types of institutional
establishments e.g. welfare homes, orphanages,
home for the aged, rehabilitation and training
centers, military
camps/reservation/bases/training grounds, etc.
16. ROBERT MALTHUS - He postulated that
population increases in a geometric ratio while
food production increases arithmetically and that
unless natural catastrophes, war or sexual
restraint control population increase, worldwide
famine or war will follow.
17. THRESHOLD POPULATION - The minimum
population necessary to support a service.
18. HIPPODAMUS - He developed the first
theoretical basis for physical planning
19. ORNAMENT AND DECORATION - These
are ways in which the main elements within the
city are arranged to form a pleasing and
memorable pattern.
20. EKISTICS - The science of Human
Settlements.
21. ZONING TAKES THE FORM OF A
LOCALLY ENACTED ORDINANCE WHICH
EMBODIES AMONG OTHERS, REGULATIONS
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AFFECTING: Uses allowed or disallowed in
each zone or district. Conditions for allowing
them. Deviations legally allowed from the
requirements of the ordinance.
22. Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board
(HLURB)- The sole regulatory body for housing
and land use development. It is charged with
encouraging greater private sector participation
in low-cost housing through liberalization of
development standards, simplification of
regulations and decentralization of approvals for
permits and licenses.
23. FLOOR AREA RATIO - The ratio grid of the
total building floor area to the total lot area
24. Rectangular streets are examples of the
GRID-IRON.
25. GRID - A street pattern that provides ease of
orientation adopted to right angle.
26. GARDEN CITY ERA - The golden era of
urban design in the US.
27. NON-CUMULATIVE ZONING - Each
successive district admits the uses of all the
more rectricted districts.
28. MILAN PLAN - Leonardo da Vinci described
in this book a new concept of urban planning that
was suited for Milan, a city straddling a river
where upstream, the river was directed into 6 or
7 branches, all parallel to the main stream and
rejoining it below the city.
29. DANIEL BURNHAM - Father of American
Town Planning.
30. VON THUNEN - He postulated that land use
diminish intensively in reverse relationship to
increased distance.
31. CITY - An area with a minimum income of
P20M, at least 10,000 has in land area or
minimum population of 150,000.
32. NETWORKS - The links within the
settlement and with other settlements
33. Urban development tends to occur along
major transportation routes because?
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES TEND TO
SERVICE AREAS WHERE THERE IS
POPULATION CONCENTRATION.
POPULATION TENDS TO CONCENTRATE
WHERE TRANSPORTATION IS AVAILABLE.
34. CARRYING CAPACITY - The ability of an
area’s resource system to support the activities
of a given population.
35. EBENEZER HOWARD - He advocated the
concept of the "Social City", a polycentric
settlement, where growth is without limit,
surrounded by a greenbelt.
36. The elements of the human settlements:- I.
NATURE II. MAN III. SOCIETY IV. SHELLS V.
NETWORK VI. HAMLET VII. COMMUNITY
37. URBANIZATION: Growth in the proportion of
a population living in urban areas.
38. NEW TOWN - It shall refer to a town
deliberately planned and built which provides, in
addition to houses, employment, shopping,
education, recreation, culture and other services
normally associated with a city or town.
39. GARDEN CITY - An urban planning
approach that puts priority on people and
environment wherein the model is the traditional
city neighborhood that existed before where
workplaces, shops and houses where within
walking distance of each other.
40. DANIEL BURNHAM - He wrote the Chicago
Plan which was heavily criticized and referred to
as centro-centrist.
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41. FREDERICK LAW OLMSTEAD - He
believed in the use of open space as element of
urban system.
42. MEDIEVAL TIMES - The period in history
wherein towns grew around either a monastery
or castle assuming a radiocentric pattern.
43. POPULATION PYRAMID - A special type of
bar chart that shows the distribution of a
population by age and sex.
44. A central business district usually has : I.
HIGH DAYTIME POPULATION II. LARGE
CONCENTRATION OF OFFICE AND RETAIL
ACTIVITIES III. LARGE DAILY INFLOW AND
OUTFLOW OF COMMUTER
45. MEGAPOLIS - bigger in the hierarchy of
settlements.
46. Exponents of the systems view of planning: I.
BRIAN MCLOUGHLIN II. GEORGE CHADWICK
III. ALAN WILSON
47. Metro Manila is considered a primate city
because IT CONTAINS THE COUNTRY’S
PRIMARY CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
48. COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY YARDS
- Single detached dwelling unit is defined as a
house.
49. CONURBATION - It is merging of two or
more metropolises with a population of 10 million
or more.
50. ZONING - It is the division of a community
into districts or zones according to present and
potential uses of land to maximize, regulater and
direct their use and development.
51. CLIFF - A very steep slope of rock or clay.
52. MEADOW - 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.
53. COMMON WALL - A wall that serves 2
dwelling units, known also as party wall.
54. RIDGE - A long, narrow chain of hills or
mountains.
55. OPTION TO BUY - A written agreement
between parties, but it allows a specific period
during which the buyer can investigate the
property and make a decision.
56. TRAFFIC - A Land Development Decision is
also what kind of decision.
57. CITY PLANNING - The orderly arrangement
of urban streets and public spaces.
58. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Phrase
used to characterize development that meets the
needs of the present generation without
compromising the needs of the future
generations.
59. DEVELOPERS - They develop or improve
the land as well as construct houses.
60. RAVINE - A long, deep, narrow valley
eroded by running water.
61. DANIEL H. BURNHAM - He conceptulized
the “City Beautiful Movement”
62. ADVOCACY PLANNING - 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.
63. PLATTING - The process in which a piece of
land, referred to as the parent tract, is subdivided
into two or more parcels.
64. BASILICA - Niemeyer believed that relating
large areas to each other is freedom as in the
planned city of ___________.
65. AGRICULTURAL SURPLUS - The main
reason why the nomadic existence of early man
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metamorphosed to village settlement and later to
the birth of cities.
66. LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE - This code
mandates that all Local Government Units shall
prepare their comprehensive land use plans and
enact them through zoning ordinances.
67. DENSITY - In architectural terms, it is the
relationship of the number of residential
structures and people to a given amount of
space.
68. PHYSICAL SETTLEMENT - The container
of man, which consists of both the natural and
man-made or artificial element.
69. DEED - Written document to transfer the
property to one person to another.
70. TROBOUNDED CITY - 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.
71. FINAL PLAT - Usually the last stage of the
final site development process prior to issuance
of building permit.
72. HIPPODAMUS OF MILETUS - First Planner
and developed the Gridiron.
73. CITY - A locale with a sizeable
agglomeration of people having characteristics of
an urban being.
74. URBAN DESIGN - 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.
75. INSULA - 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.
76. CAPITAL FACILITIES PLANNING -
Planning for roads, bridges, schools, parking
structures, pubic buildings, water supply, land
waste disposal facilities.
77. GABION WALL - 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.
78. AZIMUTHS - Angles measured clockwise
from any meridian, usually north; however, the
National Geodetic Survey uses south.
79. BUILDABLE AREA - The remaining space
in a lot after deducting the required minimum
open spaces.
80. URBAN SPRAWL - A 20th century problem
emanating from rapid urbanization of areas
surrounding a city which eats up the remaining
adjacent rural open spaces.
81. DWELLING UNIT - A habitable room for 1
family only with facilities for living, sleeping,
cooking, and eating.
82. SUSTAINABLE LANDUSE PLANNING - 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.
83. NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY - The
government arm responsible for the development
and implementation of low cost housing in the
Philippines.
84. EARNEST MONEY - Sometimes called
"subscription money", this is a deposit given to
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the seller to show that the potential buyer has

serious intentions.
85. SUBDIVISION REGULATION - A tool used
to control the manner in which raw land is
subdivided and placed on the market for
residential development.
86. GREENBELT - A wide area of parks of
undeveloped land surrounding a community.
87. RESTRICTION - On land, an encumbrance
limiting its use; usually imposed for community or
mutual protection.
88. PARCEL - 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.
89. AMORTIZATION - A provision made in
advance for the gradual liquidation of a future
obligation by periodic charges against the capital
account.
90. CONCENTRIC ZONE CONCEPT - 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.