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1) "Make no little plans. They have no magic and probably themselves will
not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering
that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die ... " 
 

  A. Leon Battista Alberti  

  B. Daniel H. Burnham

  C. Baron Georges Eugenes Hausmann

  D. Pierre Charles L'Enfant

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2) In Clarence Stein's Six (6) Principles of Regional Planning (1920), which
one concerns traffic congestion caused by roadside parking?
 

  A. Plan Simply,but comprehensively

  B. Provide ample Site in the right places for community use  

C. Put factories and industrial buildings where they can be used without
 
wasteful transportation of people and goods
  D. Cars should be stored in homes

  E. Bring private land and public land into relationship

  F. Arrange for the occupancy of houses

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3) This was an American movement in the 1890s that stressed the design of
settlements according to the principles of "grandeur, exuberance,
monumentality, drama and tension, cohesiveness, and symmetry" as
demonstrated in the planning of Washington DC, Paris, Chicago, San
Francisco, among others: 
 

  A. City Beautiful Movement

  B. City Functional Movement

  C. City Efficient Movement

  D. New Towns Movement

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4) This pertains to the process wherein large numbers of people, driven by
demographic factors, live together in important locations --a process that is
always accompanied by economic agglomeration, spatial alteration,
and socio-cultural change
 

  A. Industrialization  

  B. Urbanization

  C. Social Transformation

  D. Modernization
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5) Which of the following is not a feature of Frank Lloyd Wright's

'Broadacre City' ( 1932)? 
 

  A. Each person regardless of age has one acre of federal land  

  B. Food garden or small farm would be right next to the house

  C. Manufacture &commerce set up in twelve 15-storey buildings

  D. Work within walking distance from the home

  E. Railroad and freeway to interconnect cities

  F. Densification would preserve much open space

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6) The US Supreme Court's decision in 1926 to uphold the power of an LGU
to regulate land use through ordinance in the landmark case of "Village of
Euclid vs. Ambler Realty Company is reckoned as the watershed moment
for
 

  A. City Beautiful Movement

  B. City Functional Movement

  C. City Efficient Movement

  D. Regional City Movement  

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7) Related to Thomas Malthus' concept of 'k' as the population size
constrained by whatever resource is in silo rt est supply, this principle
refers to "the maximum population of a given species that can be
supported indefinitely in a defined habitat without causing negative
impacts that permanently impair the productivity of that same habitat." 
 

  A. Limits to growth

  B. Tipping point

  C. Range and threshold  

  D. Carrying capacity

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8) In the "Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities.Threats" tool as popularized
by exponents of Strategic Planning, the elements, aspects or characteristics
that need to be reinforced, are enumerated under which quadrant? 
 

  A. 'S'

  B. 'W'  

  C. 'O'

  D. 'T'
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9) In Michael P. Todaro's Labor Migration Model of Urbanization (1976),

the central pull factor or main attraction of Third World cities to rural
migrants even when these cities are unprepared to accept migration, is 
 

  A. "bright lights effect" or lure of city life and neon-lit entertainment

B. Possible benefits derived from proximity to seat of power and prestige
 
of central city address  
C. Abundance and plenitude in cities versus hunger and famine due to
 
insurgency wars in the countryside
D. Substantial wage differentials between urban labor and rural labor for
 
the same level of skill, task, or occupation
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10) Recognized as 'father of landscape architecture,' he also began the 'Parks
and Conservation Movement' in the United States which advanced the idea
 that city parks and greenways can structure urban space, stimulate mixed
uses, dampen class conflict, heighten family and religious values, and serve
as aid to social reform. 
 

  A. Frederic Law Olmstead Sr

  B. John Muir

  C. Gifford Pinchot

  D. George Perkins Marsh  

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11) Under RA7160 Sec 452, what is the minimum population requirement to
approve a Highly Urbanized City?
 

  A. At least 200,000

  B. At least 500,000

  C. At least 1 million

  D. At least 10 million  

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12) The major objective of Le Corbusier's (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) cubist
"Radiant City' design ( 1923) meant for 3 million people consisting of
'uniform 60-storey tower-blocks set in a huge park' was to: 
 
A. Use high-rise structures to improve safety of people and security of vital
 
institutions
  B. Increase city density by building high on a small part of land 
C. Increase the public's enjoyment of environmental amenities and
 
viewscapes from varying heights  
D. Capture the retail market which justifies why prices are necessarily high
 
in central locations or CBDs
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13) The following are the stated goals of 'urban development policy' (NUDHF)
in the Philippines, except one: 
 
  A. To achieve a more balanced urban-rural interdependence
B. To slow down rural-to-urban movement by means of migration control
 
and population management
C. To optimally utilize land and resources to meet the requirements of
 
housing and urban development
D. To undertake a comprehensive and continuing program of urban
  development which will make available housing and services at
affordable cost
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14) Which is a major contribution of classical Greek civilization 700-404 BCE
to town planning? 
 
A. Polytheism or pantheon of Greek gods which sanctified all elements of
 
Nature as being animated by divine spirit
B. The delineation between religious space & secular civic space as
 
separate but complementary spheres in society
C. The concept of 'polis' or (Latin) 'civitas' which means that only residents
 
of cities can truly be called 'civilized'.  
D. The practice of direct democracy and the notion of citizenship which
 
included women, the poor,slaves, and aliens.
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15) In a November 2008 ruling of the Supreme Court upholding RA 9009's

amendment of Sec. 450 of RA 7160 LGC, the statutory requirements for
an LGU's elevation to citihood are 
 
A. Contiguous territory of at least 100 km2 except for island/group of
 
islands  
B. Minimum annual income of P100 million based on 1991 constant
 
prices
  C. Population of at least 150,000

  D. All of the choices

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16) The main contribution of Norbert Weiner's 'Cybernetics' to the Systems
Theory of planning is the principle that planning should be -
 

  A. Cyclical, iterative, and self-correcting

  B. Free-wheeling and open-ended

  C. Wide-ranging and exhaustive  

  D. Rigorous, exact, and mathematical

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17) As defined by PD 1517 and by National Statistics Office, 'urban' area has
the following characteristics except one:
 

  A. It exports substantial quantities of processed products

  B. Core district's density is at least 500 per square kilometer

C. Overall density of at least 1000 persons per square kilometer in its
 
entirety  
  D. Exhibits a street pattern

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18) He wrote the famous book "Garden Cities of Tomorrow"(1902) and became
a most influential thinker with his effort to combine the best features of
'country' as shown in his diagrams of three(3) magnets.
 

  A. Sir Frederic Osborn

  B. Sir Ebenezer Howard

  C. Sir Patrick Leslie Abercrombie  

  D. Sir Raymond Unwin

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19) "First we shape our buildings; thereafter, our buildings shape us." This
quotation is attributed to 
 

  A. Winston Churchill

  B. George Washington

  C. Theodore Roosevelt  

  D. Napoleon Bonaparte

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20) Built below the Acropolis in the heart of the citystate, the 'marketplace' was
the site where ancient Greeks came together not only for trading and buying
of foodstuffs but also for political, social, and other secular activities 
 

  A. 'parthenon'

  B. 'gymnasium'

  C. 'erechtheum'

  D. 'agora'

  E. 'sumposion'  
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21) Tony Garnier (1917) conceptualized a lush green city of about 35,000
inhabitants where 'man would rule by h􀂞imself.' thus there would be no
police, no churches, no rigid forms of social control in this Utopian place
complete with landscaped homes, factories, trade schools, transport and
leisure facilities. 
 

  A. Esplanade

  B. Axle lndustrielle

  C. Post-Industrial Motor City

  D. Linear IndustriaI City

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22) The Garden City Movement shaped the British policy of "urban
containment", with following features, except one: 
 

  A. Greenbelts, green girdles, and clear edges for all cities

  B. Mass transit to link 'mother city' with 'garden cities'  

  C. Homestead of about one acre per family

  D. Preservation of more farmland & open space

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23) Which basic principle of 'Sustainable Development' means responsibility

and accountability to future populations? 
 
  A. Common Heritage of Humankind

  B. Lnter-generational Equity

  C. Caring Capacity  

  D. Parity 0f Compeers

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24) Urban planning is "concerned with providing the right place at the right site
at the right time" for the right people.
 
  A. John Ratcliffe
  B. Lewis Keeble
  C. Brian Mcloughlin
  D. George Chadwick
  E. Alan Wilson
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25) They were considered the earliest regional planners in history (27 BCE
-410 AD) because they planned their cities and settlements with transport
network, civil works, utilities, and military defense, foremost in their
minds? 
 

  A. Macedonian Greeks under Alexander The Great  

  B. Romans under the dictatorial Emperors

  C. Persians under Cyrus the Great

  D. Egyptians under Ramses, Thutrnoses, and Nefertiti

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26) The Garden City Movement in  the United Kingdom directly addressed
large-scale problems caused by the __?
 

  A. The Scientific Revolution

  B. British-American War of Independence  

  C. Industrial Revolution

  D. World War II and the Holocaust

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27) According to Dr. Francis Stuart Chapin Jr in the first comprehensive

textbook on urban planning ever written ( 1965 ), the explicit goals of
urban planning are the following, except one:
 

  A. Health & safety

  B. Convenience & amenity

  C. tolerance & plurality

  D. Efficiency & economy  

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28) According to Dr Garrett Hardin, in an open access regime without defined
property rights, individuals enjoy free unlimited access to natural resources
and right to use without exclusion; each individual is motivated to
maximize his or her own benefit from exploiting the resource. When no
individual has adequate incentive to conserve the public 
resource, the resource will likely become overused and overexploited. 
 

  A. The Stewardship of Nature

  B. Communitarian Paradox  

  C. Fencesitter's Dilemma

  D. Tragedy of the Commons

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29) The most recent re-definition of 'urban' by NSCB (2003) does not include
one of the following. 
 
A. If a barangay has more fishery output and shellcraft activities compared
 
to farms, then it is considered urban
B. If a barangay has population size of 5,000 or more, then it is considered
 
urban;
C. If a barangay has at least one establishment with 100 employees or
 
more, then it is considered urban  
D. If a barangay has 5 or more establishments with a minimum of 10
  employees, and 5 or more facilities within the two-kilometer radius
from the barangay hall, then it is considered urban
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30) Due to greater 'division of labor', there is more heterogeneity of population
and classes of workers beginning with 
 
  A. Primitive subsistence society
  B. Pre-industrial society
  C. Industrial society
  D. Post-industrial society
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31) This type of planning has also been called 'synoptic,' 'static', 'normative,'
and 'Utopian', because it assumes a prior that professional planners have
the intellige􀀇nce, noble in􀀈tentions. and expertise to synthesize extensive
data, analyze a relatively predictable world, and decide rightly on crucial
questions ,of broader public interest. 
 

  A. Equity or activist or advocacy planning

  B. Strategic Planning  

  C. Traditional planning or command planning or imperative planning

  D. Rational-Comprehensive Planning

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32) The concepts of "input-throughput--output-feedback" comes from what
school of planning? 
 

  A. Communicative Planning  

  B. Liberal Pluralistic Planning

  C. Incremental Planning

  D. Systems Theory of Planning

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33) For his grid-iron design of ancient Greek settlements such as Priene,

Piraeus and Rhodes, he is acknowledged as the Father of Town
Planning in Western Civilization 
 

  A. Vitruvius of Rome

  B. Ptolemy
  C. Hippodamus of Miletus

  D. Appolodorus of Damascus
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34) Which is a significant accomplishment of "Advocacy Planning"movement
as fathered by Paul Davidoff (1965)? 
 

  A. Single women with children were assisted to find employment.

B. Social planning was moved from 'backroom negotiations' into the open
 
public forum.
  C. Documentation of long-lasting environmental changes was intensified  
D. Affirmative action and social amelioration were mainstreamed into
 
national policy
E. Businesses were compelled to draw their employees from the ranks of
 
the poor.
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35) Of the Eight-Rungs in the Ladder of Citizen Participation (1969) which

'steps' would require the planner to perform 'facilitation' role rather than
'advice,' 'direction,' or 'manipulation'?
 

  A. Counseling; therapy

  B. Consultation; placation

  C. Informi􀀛g

  D. Partnership; delegated power; citizen control

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36) Which principle of Strategic Planning rallies the organization and unifies its
members around a common purpose? 
 

  A. Solve major issues at a macro level

  B. Avoid excessive inward and short-term thinking

C. Be visionary to convey a desired end-state but be flexible enough to
 
allow and to accommodate changes
D. Engage stakeholders to pull together behind a single gameplan for
 
execution
  E. Establish priorities on what will be accomplished in the future  
  F. Communicate to everyone what is most important

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37) He proposed the 'neighborhood unit' (1929) as a self-contained 'garden

suburb' bounded by major streets, with shops at intersections and·a school
in the middle; its size would be defined by school's catchment area with a
radius of quarter-mile or 402 meters. This incorporated Garden City ideas
and attempted at some kind of social engineering.
 

  A. Clarence Perry

  B. Clarence Stein

  C. Clarence Thomas  

  D. Clarence McKay

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38) Under the Systems Theory of Planning by George Chadwick and Alan
Wilson, under which stage do policy-makers or decision-makers make a
firm resolve to pursue a specific course of action?
 

  A. System Description  

  B. System Modeling

  C. System Projection

  D. System Synthesis

  E. System Control
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39) If 'pre-industrial society' was mainly agricultural, kinship-based, self-

sufficient, and relatively parochial, 'industrial society' in contrast 
 

  A. Minimizes farming to channel capital into factories

  B. Prioritizes mining of minerals and precious stones  

  C. Aims for mass production thru mechanization & automation 

  D. Relies on the output of white-collar professionals

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40) Which is not a key feature of 'professional' planning process?
 

  A. Proactive

  B. Problem-solving  

  C. Algorithmic

  D. Futuristic

  E. People-driven
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41) 'Allocative' or 'regulatory' or 'policy planning' in the tradition of Herbert

Gans and T J Kent is concerned with solving chronic problems of society
by allocating resources efficiently and enacting laws, rules and standards.
I! is therefore 
closest to which planning approach? 
 

  A. Rational-comprehensive

  B. traditional or command planning  

  C. Strategic planning

  D. Communicative planning

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42) The expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into
low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a
process called suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular form of
urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental
consequences associated with this development.
 

  A. Decentralization  

  B. Dispersion

  C. Exurbanization

  D. Urban Sprawl
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43) Frank Lloyd Wright proposed an alternative (1932) to the congestion in

huge metropolis by way of urban decentralization wherein each American
family would be granted at least one acre of federal land in a self-
contained agro-industrial settlement.  
 

  A. Eco-city

  B. Broadacre city

  C. Exurbia

  D. Micropolis  

  E. Suburbia

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44) A 'city' is a significantly-large urban area which has: 
 

  A. A cluster of skyscrapers

  B. A charter or legal proclamation

  C. A rectilinear or orthogonal street design

  D. A seaport or an airport  
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45) Don Arturo Soria y Mata, a Spanish engineer, suggested that the logic of
utility connections (electricity, sewer,concept of telephone lines, gas and
water pipes) be the basis of city layout; thus he considered the impact of
technology in his concept of an elongated urban form running from Cadiz,
Spain up to St. Petersburg,Russia
 

  A. Ciudad Conectada

  B. Ciudad Alongada  

  C. Ciudad Lineal

  D. Ciudad Larga

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46) The New Towns Movement of 1920s might have contributed to scattered
and uncontrolled development in continental America but the main reason
for its suburban sprawl after World War II was__?
 
A. Rapid fall of real estate prices in the countryside due to financial
 
meltdown from sub-prime lending
B. Increased value of rural land due to Hoover's Interstate Highway Act of
 
1956 which funded federal highways and freeways across many states  
  C. The widespread use of commuter trains and monorail

  D. The popularity of automobile as means of transportation

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47) Considered as the "Father of City Planning in America," he prepared plans

for the City of Manila and the City of Baguio from 1903 to 1911 with the
assistance of Pierce Andersson. 
 

  A. John Hay

  B. William Howard Taft

  C. Robert Kennon

  D. Daniel Hudson Burnham

  E. Francis B. Harrison
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48) Presidential Decree 1308 Sec. 2a defines it as referring to 'all activities
concerned with the management and development of land, as well as the
preservation, conservation and management of the human environment
 
  A. Urban Planning
  B. Human Ecology
  C. Environmental Management
  D. Environmental Planning
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49) A member of the advocacy/activist/equity school of planning,

this planner wrote the classic "Eight policies, Rungs in
the Ladder Citizen Participation"  which describes  the varying  degrees
of people's involvement in policies,plans, and programs.
 
  A. Ralph Nader

  B. Susan S. Fainstein  

  C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

  D. Sherry Arnstein

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50) In general, this refers to the characteristic of a process or state that can be
maintained at a certain level indefinitely; in particular, it refers to the
potential longevity of ecological systems to support humankind and other
species. 
 
  A. Resilience
  B. Endurance  
  C. Sustainability
  D. Perpetuity
  E. Durability