BALTAZAR, Rachel P.

GE 5

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING 9. Through President Letter of Instruction 367 in 1950

1. Which is not a key feature of ‘professional’ planning combining National Urban Planning Commission, real
process? Property Board, and Capital City Planning Commission,
a) Proactive the government created this first physical planning
b) Problem Solving body.
c) Algorithmic a) National Planning Commission
d) Futuristic b) National Disaster Coordinating Council
2. A ‘city’ is a significantly-large urban area which has c) National Environment Protection Agency
a) A cluster of skyscrapers d) Human Settlements Regulatory Commission
b) A charter of legal proclamation 10. In 1964, Republic Act 4341 established this center to
c) A rectilinear or orthogonal street design create a pool of professional planners in the Philippines.
d) A seaport or an airport a) Local Govt Academy
3. Under RA 7160 Sec 452, what is the minimum b) Development Academy of the Philippines
population requirement to approve a highly Urbanized c) Institute of Planning
City? d) UPLB Institute of Environmental Science and
a) At least 200,000 Management
b) At least 500,000 11. ‘Urban development’ tends to occur along major
c) At least 1 million transportation routes because
d) At least 10 million a) Power/water connections and other utilities are
4. This pertains to the process wherein large numbers of naturally linear
people, driven by demographic factors, live together in b) Business cannot take place without roads and
important locations - a process that is always vehicles
accompanied by economic agglomeration, spatial c) Migration usually occurs lineally from point A to
alteration, and sociocultural change. point B such as in exodus, processions, or
a) Industrialization Diasporas
b) Urbanization d) People tend to locate where exchange,
c) Social Transformation interchange, and access to other land uses are at
d) Modernization maximum
5. The expansion of human populations away from central 12. In ‘Ernest Burgess’ concentric Model (1925), factories &
urban areas into low density, mono functional and work-shops would most likely locate in
usually car-dependent communities, in a process called a) Innermost circle
suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular b) Outermost circle
form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social c) The second circle from the center
and enviromental consequences associated with this d) The third circle from the center
development. 13. Which of the following land-use models describes the
a) Decentralization pattern of radial or axial growth along lines of least
b) Dispersion resistance?
c) Exurbanization a) Multiple Nuclei
d) Urban Sprawl b) Concentric Zone
6. In general, this refers to the characteristics of a process c) Sector Model
or state that can be maintained at a certain level d) Polycentric Model
indefinitely; in particular, it refers to the potential 14. This process deals with efficient placement of activities
longevity of ecological systems to support humankind and land uses such as farms, settlements, industries,
and other species. transport hubs, infrastructure, wilderness etc. across a
a) Resilience significantly large area broader than a single city or
b) Endurance town.
c) Sustainability a) Watershed Planning
d) Perpetuity b) Area Development Planning
7. What is the smallest unit in the ‘human settlements c) Regional Planning
planning’ or Ekistics. d) Physical Planning
a) House 15. Under RA 7279 UDHA Sec.28, the following are legal
b) Anthropos forms of eviction or demolition of informal settlements.
c) Organism Which one concerns most directly the safety of the
d) Neighborhood general public in terms of water security?
8. Because Pre-Spanish aboriginal communities in the a) When persons occupy railroad tracks, RROW,
Philippines were relatively small and based on kinship sidewalks, transmission lines, dump sites, parks,
relations, the most common practice of land tenure in playgrounds and other public places
pre-colonial society, wherein one would merely enjoy b) When persons occupy easements of pipelines,
the ‘fruits’ of land, was called reservoirs, esteros, creeks, rivers, shorelines, and
a) Primitive communism beaches
b) Slash-and-burn c) When government infrastructure projects with
c) Usufruct available fundings are about to be implemented
d) Tenancy
 d) When there is a court order of eviction of settlers d) Advice the President on matters concerning on
from a legally-owned private property social development, education,manpower, health
16. Below are some of the documented deficiencies of and nutrition, population and family planning,
governments socialized housing with row house design. housing, human settlements, and the delivery of
Which deficiency is considered the principal cause of other social services
the failure of off-city relocation in the Philippines? 23. Which of the following is not a function of the Housing
a) 24sq.m. is inappropriate for large urban families and Urban Development Coordinating Council?
which are typically extended a) Custodian and keeper of all resources of
b) Each dwelling unit has no space for waste sorting, government related to housing and urban
composting, gardening, and domestic crop development
production b) Determine participation and coordinate activities
c) Each dwelling has no provision for natural cooling of key housing agencies in national housing
and energy conservation by means of protective program
trees c) Monitor, review and evaluate the effective
d) Most housing projects have no provisions for exercise by government housing agencies of their
near-site workplaces or employment centers assigned functions
17. Which factor increases a population’s ‘vulnerability’ to d) Assist in the maximum participation of the private
disaster? sector in all aspects of housing and urban
a) Young-age and old-age dependency development
b) Lack of resources to change physical location 24. Is the legislative act of delineating areas or districts
c) Crowding & congestion within the territorial jurisdictions of cities and
d) All of the above municipalities that may be put to specific uses and their
18. Which of the following will not reduce vulnerability to regulations, subject to the limitations imposed by law or
hazards competent authority
a) Maintaining ‘healthy’ natural systems a) Land Classification
b) Restricting development in hazardous areas b) Zoning
c) Stockpiling emergency goods and disaster relief c) Land use conversion
d) Requiring safer building standards d) Land Reclassification
19. Why do land values at the center of an overpopulated 25. This is an analytical statistic that measures a region’s
city fall drastically? industrial specialization relative to a larger geographic
a) Pollution, land degradation, disease unit - usually the country.
b) Urban blight, decay, and criminality a) Demography
c) Congestion, overcrowding, traffic b) Location Quotient
d) All of the above c) Standard Deviation
20. An LGU regulation prohibiting a landowner from using d) Input-Output Analysis
his/her residential lot as a firing range is considered an 26. A conceptual model for zero-emission and zero-waste
exercise of the power of the State called urban design, which arose in the 1990s, promoting
a) Eminent Domain compact energy-efficient urban development. It also
b) Police Power espouses the practice of creating sustainable
c) Taxation communities and lifestyles beneficial to human and the
d) Servitude environment.
21. Under Executive Orders 127, 127-A, and 292, which of a) Greenbelt
the following is not a function of the Department of b) Green Urbanism
FInance? c) New Urbanism
a) Formulation, institutionalization and d) Sustainable Development
administration of fiscal policies 27. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of
b) Supervision of the revenue operations of all local society in Ekistics.
govt units a) Nature
c) Conceptualization of major govt investment on b) Society
infrastructure and utilities c) Cloister
d) Review, approval and management of all public d) Networks
sector debt, domestic or foreign 28. It is a term used to describe a condition of unplanned,
22. Which of the following is not a function of the National uncoordinated, and generally low-density development
Economic and Development Authority? spreading outward from the city center.
a) Proper allocation of expenditures for each a) Greenbelt
development activity between current operating b) Urban sprawl
expenditures and capital outlays c) Sustainable development
b) Evaluation of the fiscal, monetary and balance of d) Green urbanism
payments implications of major national projects 29. Department of Human Settlements and Urban
c) Privatization and Public accountability of Development Act
corporations ans assets owned, controlled or a) RA 11201
acquired by the govt b) RA 11211
c) RA 11221
 d) RA 11231 d) PD 1216
30. As provided by in RA 7279 - s developer of a subdivision 39. Urban Development and Housing Act
project is required to develop an equivalent of 20% of a) RA 1517
the project for b) RA 7279
a) Commercial area c) RA 8532
b) Open space d) CA 141
c) Economic housing 40. Condominium Law
d) Socialized housing a) PD 957
31. Is a land development scheme wherein the project site b) RA 6552
is comprehensively planned as an entity via unitary site c) RA 4726
plan which permits flexibility in planning/ design, d) RA 9700
building setting, complementarity of building types and 41. Minimum population necessary to support a service
land uses, usable open spaces and perservation of a) Threshold population
significant natural land features b) Local Population
a) Transit-oriented development c) Regional Population
b) Urban renewal d) Expected Population
c) Planned Unit Development 42. The art and science of formulating, developing,
d) Adaptive Reuse implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions
32. Is the classification and administration of all designated that enable an organization to achieve its objectives.
protected areas to maintain essential ecological a) Strategic Planning
processes and life support systems, to preserve genetic b) Problem Identification
diversity, to ensure sustainable use of resources found c) Data Collection
therein, and to maintain their natural conditions to the d) Systems Model
greatest extent possible. 43. Patrick Geddes coined this term to mean the
a) Central Business District conglomeration of town aggregates describing the
b) Heritage Zone waves of population to large cities followed by
c) National Integrated Protected Area System overcrowding and slum formation.
33. Refers to historical, anthropological, archaeological, a) Conurbation
artistic, geographical areas, center district, and settings b) Central Place
that are culturally significant to the country, as declared c) Unit
by the National Museum and/or the National Historical d) Ekistics
Commission of the Philippines. 44. The ability of an area’s resource system to support the
a) CBD activities of a given population.
b) Heritage Zone a) Threshold Limit
c) NIPAS b) Carrying Capacity
d) Landmarks c) Source limit
34. There are many determinants of land use. Which of the d) Resilience
following is not a physical determinant of land use: 45. Setting up a fixed permanently reserved zones of
a) Patterns of land ownership unbuilt on land around and between cities, to limit the
b) Climate cities, to limit the cities overgrowth and to prevent their
c) Geology merging into each other.
d) Topography a) Buffer
35. The minimum carriageway of major roads of socialized b) Greenbelt
housing project is c) Easement
a) 3 m d) Salvage zone
b) 10 m 46. These development forms a mini-community in which
c) 0.5 m these parts are shared: semi-private open spaces, paths
d) 6 m and stairways, parking facilities, children’s play areas,
36. Which of the following is not a key shelter agency etc.
a) Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board a) Regional development
b) National Housing Authority b) Planning development
c) Homeowners’ Association c) Economic development
d) Social Housing Finance Corporation d) Cluster development
37. This refers to use restrictions in particular areas or the 47. The rehabilitation of deteriorated inner city housing
delineation of allowable uses in particular areas with favorable locations to the CBD.
a) Subdivision a) Urbanization
b) Zoning b) restoration
c) Police power c) Gentrification
d) Eminent domain d) Critical analysis
38. Law defining “open space” in residential subdivision 48. A spatial development concept that suggests that by
a) PD 957 investing heavily in capital intensive industries in the
b) RA 6552 largest urban centers, government in developing
c) RA 9653 countries can stimulate economic growth that will
 spread outward to generate regional development the
economies of scale found in the largest cities.
a) Growth pole concept
b) System concept
c) Problem identification
d) Topology concept
49. In the planning process - the first step is to: organize.
Which of the following activities is not included in this
step?
a) Assemble the personnel, resources, and support
needed for the planning process
b) Organize and orient the planning team
c) Make inventory of existing information
d) Establishing development thrusts and spatial
strategies
50. The SWOT analysis is a tool used in planning which
provides a framework for identifying and analyzing the
internal and external factors that can have an impact on
development. It is a matrix that list down:
a) Strengths, weakness, organization, and threats
b) Treats, opportunities, weakness, and strengths
c) Sustainability, workability, order, and transparency
d) Solution, weakness, obstruction, and tools