1.

Urban Planner and Designer famous

for his words Make no little plans, they
have no magic to stir mens 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
c) Yosemite Park, California
d) Washington Park, Chicago

By Frederick
Law Olmstead

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
c) Madrid
d) Versailles

or Sienna

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
b) Hippodamus
c) Damascus
d) Paleo

Designer of
Miletus and Priene

9. The best representation of the

speculators town of the settlements
in early America:
a) Charleston
b) Williamsburg
c) Philadelphia
d) New York City

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

Built New Lanark

Mills, Manchester

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:

a) Unwin and Parker

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

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
d) none of the above

Sedimentary
rocks pushed to
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
b) geomorphology
c) physiography
d) hydrology

Natural science that

studies the earth;
its composition,
processes that
shaped its surface,
and its history
Study of
topography
including
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

Massive crystalline bedrock, e.g. granite, gneiss

Allowable Bearing Value (psf)

200,000

Rock
2

Metamorphosed rock, e.g. schist, slate

80,000

Sedimentary rocks, e.g. shale, sandstone

30,000

Well compacted gravels and sands

20,000

Compact gravel, sand/gravel mixtures

12,000

Soil materials

Loose gravel, compact coarse sand

8,000

Loose coarse sand; loose sand/gravel mixtures, compact fine

sand, wet coarse sand

6,000

Loose fine sand, wet fine sand

4,000

Stiff clay (dry)

8,000

10

Medium-stiff clay

4,000

11

Soft clay

2,000

12

Fill, organic material, or silt

Source: Code Manual, New York State Building Code Commission

(fixed by field tests)

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

the rate at which

water in a soil pit
or pipe is taken
up by the soil
(used mainly in
wastewater
absorption tests
and measured in
inches per hour)
the rate at which
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%
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

73. In the sector model, housing closest to

Central Business District:
a) low income
b) middle class
c) high income
d) institutional