Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By Frederick
Law Olmstead
or Sienna
civic towns
c) presidio
d) missions
religious towns
Designer of
Miletus and Priene
by William Penn
10.
Leader of the Reform Movements
during the Industrial Revolution:
a) Robert Owens
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.
Letcheworth
b) Ebenezer Howard
c) Louis de Soisson
d) Clarence Perry
Proponent of the
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
Londons 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 Wrights 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
Manilas 12 cities:
a) City of Manila
38.30 sq. km
b) Kalookan City
c) Quezon City
d) Muntinlupa City
166.20 sq. km
25.
Among Lynchs 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 Lynchs 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 Bentleys
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
31.
33.
Gesellschaft Community:
a) Transitory sort of secondary group
contacts prevail
b) Rural environment
c) Primary group contacts predominate
d) Intimate neighborly relationships
prevail
36.
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
39.
Pioneer of city center pedestrian
shopping areas in America:
a) Patrick Abercrombie
b) Walter Griffin
c) Victor Gruen
d) John Nash
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.
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
Igneous rocks
reduced to
particles
c) metamorphosed rocks
d) none of the above
Sedimentary
rocks pushed to
deeper levels of
the earth
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
Material
200,000
Rock
2
80,000
30,000
20,000
12,000
Soil materials
8,000
6,000
4,000
8,000
10
Medium-stiff clay
4,000
11
Soft clay
2,000
12
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
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%
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%
5 10%
10 15%
15 20%
20% and over
Generally flat
Gently rolling
Gentle to mild slopes
Mild to steep slopes
Harsh, steep slopes
Highly buildable
Moderately buildable
Moderately difficult terrain
Difficult terrain
Unbuildable