1.

Urban Planner and Designer famous

for his words “Make no little plans, they
have no magic to stir men’s blood”:
a) Le Corbusier

b) Daniel Burnham

c) Parsons

d) Ebenezer Howard
2. Acknowledged as the oldest
continually inhabited city in the world:

a) Babylon

b) Eridu

c) Damascus

d) Athens
3. The first planned park in the United States

a) Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

b) Central Park, New York By Frederick

Law Olmstead
c) Yosemite Park, California

d) Washington Park, Chicago

4. The largest city of the Yellow River
Valley of China:

a) Anyang

b) Gheijin

c) Sunru Ghin

d) Beijing
5. Designer of the European Planned
City of Savannah in Georgia, USA:

a) Frederick Law Olmstead

b) Col. Frank Nicholson

c) Charles Fourier

d) James Oglethorpe
6. The first city that signified the rise of
the church, with the church being an
integral part of its urban design:

a) Rome

b) Constantinople or Sienna

c) Madrid

d) Versailles
7. The military towns of Spanish
settlements :

a) laws of the Indies

b) pueblo civic towns

c) presidio

d) missions religious towns

8. The first noted urban planner because
of his design of the city of Miletus:

a) Vitruvius
Designer of
b) Hippodamus
Miletus and Priene

c) Damascus

d) Paleo
9. The best representation of the
“speculators town” of the settlements
in early America:

a) Charleston

b) Williamsburg

c) Philadelphia by William Penn

d) New York City

10. Leader of the Reform Movements
during the Industrial Revolution:

Built New Lanark

a) Robert Owens Mills, Manchester

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) James Oglethorpe

d) Soria Y Mata
11. Author of “Tomorrow: a Peaceful Path
to Social Reform” and main proponent
of the Garden Cities:

a) Robert Owen

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) James Oglethorpe

d) Soria Y Mata
12. The first garden city designed by
Raymund Unwin and Barry Parker:

a) Welwyn

b) Hampstead

c) Letcheworth

d) Windsor
13. Designed the Garden City of Welwyn:
Letcheworth
a) Unwin and Parker

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) Louis de Soisson
Proponent of the
d) Clarence Perry neighborhood unit;
with Clarence Stein
14. World fair in Chicago in 1891, setting
off the City Beautiful Era:

a) the Columbian Exposition

b) the White City

c) World Cities Expo

d) City Beautiful Movement

15. Designed the reconstruction of Paris
using the principles of the city beautiful
movement:
a) John Nash London’s parks

b) Daniel Burnham Chicago, Cleveland,

Manila, Baguio

c) Charles Buckingham

d) Baron Hausmann
16. Designed Brasilia, the new capital of
Brazil during the City Beautiful era:

a) Albert Meyer Chandigarh

b) Edward Lutyens New Delhi

c) Walter Griffin Canberra

d) Lucio Costa
17. Frank Lloyd Wright’s project proposal
that would allot one acre of land to
each American family:
a) Le Contemporaine

b) Unite D Habitation

c) Broadacres

d) Acreville
18. Proposed the Linear City that would
serve as a satellite to the city of
Madrid:
a) Jose Marseilles

b) Diego San Andres

c) Soria Y Mata

d) Felipe Selecios
19. Proposed the “Arcology Alternative”
or 3D city:
a) Soria Y Mata

b) Paolo Soleri

c) Frank Lloyd Wright

d) Kiyonori Kikutake
20. Proposed the first “Floating City” as
an alternative to land reclamation:

a) Soria Y Mata

b) Paolo Soleri

c) Frank Lloyd Wright

d) Kiyonori Kikutake
21. Believed that planning should first start
at the micro level and thus designed
the “neighborhood unit”:
a) Clarence Perry and Clarence Stein

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) Frank Lloyd Wright & Louis Sulliven

d) Louis Kahn
22. The shape of urban cities formed by
two corridors of intense development
crossing the center:

a) radiocentric

b) rectilinear

c) articulated sheet

d) linear
23. Acknowledged as the icon of middle
class suburbanization during the
1950s:
a) projects 1 to 8

b) Philam-life Homes

c) Forbes Park

d) Quezon City
24. Largest in land area among Metro
Manila’s 12 cities:
a) City of Manila 38.30 sq. km

b) Kalookan City

c) Quezon City 166.20 sq. km

d) Muntinlupa City
25. Among Lynch’s elements of the city,
these are defined as lateral references
that are not coordinate axes:
a) paths

b) edges

c) nodes

d) districts
26. Among Lynch’s elements of the city,
these are defined as intensive foci
from which the observer is traveling:
a) paths

b) edges

c) nodes

d) districts
27. The third level of Ian Bentley’s
responsive environments; important in
terms of physical form and activity
patterns:

a) permeability

b) legibility

c) robustness

d) richness
28. According to Ian Bentley, responsive
environments that focus on details,
with a wide vocabulary of visual cues
possess:

a) legibility

b) variety

c) visual appropriateness

d) personalization
29. 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

30. According to Tonnies, what type of
community life is one in which impersonal,
superficial & business-like relationships
prevail?

a) Rural

b) Gesellschaft

c) Damay

d) Gemeinschaft
31. Determines current housing needs:

a) Housing to be replaced

b) All listed items

c) Housing for new family formation

d) Housing for special groups

32.Type of urban ecological process in land
use planning patterning in cities or
communities defined as the entrance
of a new population and / or facilities into
an occupied area

a) Succession

b) Concentration

c) Invasion

d) Decentralization
33. Gesellschaft Community:

a) Transitory sort of secondary group

contacts prevail

b) Rural environment

c) Primary group contacts predominate

d) Intimate neighborly relationships

prevail
34. Describes housing shortage or backlog:

a) Difference between no. of acceptable

housing & number of families

b) All listed items

c) Housing for new family formation

d) Housing produced minus existing

housing
35. In the increase of urban population, which
of the following factors indicates excess of
in-migration over out-migration?

a) Natural Increase

b) Concentration

c) Net Migration

d) Reclassification
36. Factors indicating Net Migration:

a) Excess of births over deaths

b) Excess in young population

c) Excess of in-migration over

out-migration

d) Rural areas having achieved

urban status
37. Urban design control that allows
builders and developers more space
if they provide desirable features such
as plazas, arcades, and other open
spaces :
a) flexible zoning

b) incentive zoning

c) cluster zoning

d) land use planning

38. Intersections that separate lanes of traffic
by use of islands

a) channelization

b) rotaries

c) clover leafs

d) diamonds
39. Pioneer of city center pedestrian
shopping areas in America:

a) Patrick Abercrombie

b) Walter Griffin

c) Victor Gruen

d) John Nash
40. What major problem brought about the
discipline of city planning?

a) Physical chaos

b) Urban growth

c) Land value

d) Crime
41. Basic subdivision design

a) Grid Iron

b) Radial on Grid iron

c) Curvilinear

d) Radial super blocks

42. Local collector street

a) Pick up traffic from local residential

streets in one neighborhood

b) Circumventing neighborhoods
c) Major arteries & inter-neighborhood
streets
d) Solely for residential area served
43. Zoning law of the U.S.

a) 1916

b) 1945

c) 1900

d) 1930
44. Gemeinschaft Community

a) Intimate neighborly relationships prevail

b) Impersonal/Superficial relationships prevail

c) Urban Environment

d) Business-like relationship predominate

45. Residential density

a) Families per neighborhood

b) Families per dwelling unit

c) Families per square block

46. what part of basic data and planning
studies in a comprehensive development
plan describes the physical setting of the
community or region?

a) economic base study

b) land use survey and inventory

c) man-made features

d) history and geography

47. Economist who developed the sector
model of urban growth and
development:

a) E.W. Burgess Concentric zone

b) Homer Hoyt

c) Chauncey Harris Multiple nuclei

d) James Vance Urban realms

48. The urban model of growth and
development that presents the
emergence of self-sufficient sectors:

a) concentric zone model

b) sector model

c) multiple nuclei model

d) urban realms model

49. Density control method that regulates
the proportions between the built area
of the building and the lot area:
a) number of occupants per square meter

b) number of occupants per floor

c) floor area ratio

d) floor space index

50. a general term to describe the idea of
consciously renewing the outworn
areas of towns and cities:

a) historic preservation

b) urban renewal

c) adaptive reuse

d) urban gentrification
51. a mixed use community with an
average 670 meter distance of a
transit stop and commercial core area:
a) transit oriented development

b) traditional neighborhood development

c) planned unit development

d) new urbanism
52. a group of architects, planners, and
urban designers formed to educate
citizens worldwide of the benefits of
new urbanism:

a) the Council for New Urbanism

b) the Congress for New Urbanism

c) the New Urbanism Movement

d) the Association of New Urbanists

53. According to the theory of New
Urbanism, neighborhoods must have
a discernible center within a five
minute walk of all dwellings, and
equivalent to :

a) 200 to 300 meters

b) 300 to 500 meters

c) 600 to 700 meters

d) approximately 1 kilometer
54. Minimum width of sidewalks,
according to New Urbanism principles:

a) 1.20 meters

b) 2.00 meters

c) 2.50 meters

d) 3.00 meters
55. Required study before developers
are issued Environment Compliance
Certificates

a) E.I.A.

b) E.C.C.

c) E.I.S.

d) Building permit
56. Run down industrial area in San Jose,
California redeveloped by Peter
Calthorpe:

a) Laguna West

b) Jackson-Taylor

c) Kentlands

d) Windsor
57. Architect and Urban Designer who
worked on the design of Shanghai;
author of “Designing Cities”:

a) Edmund Bacon

b) Jane Jacobs

c) Camillo Sitte

d) Peter Wong
58. Rocks produced by crystallization from
a liquid:

a) igneous rocks

b) sedimentary rocks Igneous rocks

reduced to
particles
c) metamorphosed rocks
Sedimentary
rocks pushed to
d) none of the above deeper levels of
the earth
59. Which of the following indicates good
site planning?

a) best orientation

b) all items listed

c) efficient maintenance

d) maximized land use /

space
60. Which of the following indicates good
site planning?

a) maximum land use

b) cost efficient

c) all items listed

d) efficient circulation
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 Natural science that
studies the earth;
it’s composition,
processes that
b) geomorphology shaped its surface,
and its history

c) physiography Study of
topography
including
d) hydrology geomorphology

Study of surface
and ground water
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
 BEARING CAPACITY FOR ROCK AND SOIL MATERIALS

Class Material Allowable Bearing Value (psf)

1 Massive crystalline bedrock, e.g. granite, gneiss 200,000

Rock
2 Metamorphosed rock, e.g. schist, slate 80,000

3 Sedimentary rocks, e.g. shale, sandstone 30,000

4 Well compacted gravels and sands 20,000

5 Compact gravel, sand/gravel mixtures 12,000

6 Soil materials Loose gravel, compact coarse sand 8,000

7 Loose coarse sand; loose sand/gravel mixtures, compact fine 6,000

sand, wet coarse sand

8 Loose fine sand, wet fine sand 4,000

9 Stiff clay (dry) 8,000

10 Medium-stiff clay 4,000

11 Soft clay 2,000

12 Fill, organic material, or silt (fixed by field tests)

Source: Code Manual, New York State Building Code Commission

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):
the rate at which
a) drainage water in a soil pit
or pipe is taken
up by the soil
b) infiltration (used mainly in
wastewater
absorption tests
and measured in
c) percolation inches per hour)

the rate at which

d) permeability water within the
soil moves
through a given
volume of
material (also
measured in cm
or inches per
hour)
68. The rate at which water within the soil
moves through a given volume of
material (measured in cm or inches
per hour):

a) drainage

b) infiltration

c) percolation

d) permeability
69. Angle at which soil can be safely
inclined and beyond which it will fail:

a) angle of incidence

b) angle of repose

c) right angle

d) 45 degree angle
70. Angle of slopes considered as gentle
to mild slopes and moderately difficult:
a) 0 to 5%

b) 5 to 10%

c) 10 to 15%

d) 15 to 20%
71. The following are natural factors taken
into account for site analysis, except for:
a) geology

b) geomorphology

c) history

d) hydrology
72. Angle of slopes considered gently
rolling and moderately buildable:
a) 0 to 5%

b) 5 to 10%

c) 10 to 15%

d) 15 to 20%

0 – 5% Generally flat Highly buildable

5 – 10% Gently rolling Moderately buildable
10 – 15% Gentle to mild slopes Moderately difficult terrain
15 – 20% Mild to steep slopes Difficult terrain
20% and over Harsh, steep slopes Unbuildable
73. In the sector model, housing closest to
Central Business District:
a) low income

b) middle class

c) high income

d) institutional