1. 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
d. Environmental Planning

2. Urban planning is "concerned with providing the right place at the right site at the right time"
for the right people.
a. John Ratcliffe

3. Which is not a key feature of 'professional' planning process?

c. Algorithmic

4. 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.

5. 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

6. A 'city' is a significantly-large urban area which has:

b. A charter of legal proclamation

7. 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 cityhood are:
a. Contiguous territory of at least 100 km2 except for island/group islands.
b. Minimum annual income of P100 million based 1991 constant prices.
c. Population of at least 150,000
d. All of the choices

8. Under RA7160 Sec 452, what is the minimum population requirement to approve a Highly
Urbanized City?
a. At least 200,000

9. 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
b. Urbanization

10. If 'pre-industrial society' was mainly agricultural, kinship-based, self-sufficient, and relatively
parochial, 'industrial society' in contrast
c. Aims for mass production thru mechanization & automation
 Due to greater 'division of labor', there is
11.

more heterogeneity of population and classes

of workers beginning with
c. Industrial society

12.The expansion of human populations away from central

urban areas into low density, mono functional and usually
cardependent 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.
d. Urban Sprawl

13.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
d. Substantial wage differentials between urban labor and rural labor for the
same level of skill, task, or occupation

14.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:
c. Tolerance and plurality
15.he following are the stated goals of 'urban development policy' (NUDHF) in
the Philippines, except one:
b. To slow down rural-to-urban movement by means of migration control and
population management

16. 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.
d. Tragedy of the Commons

17.Related to Thomas Malthus' concept of 'k' as the population

size constrained by whatever resource is in shortest 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."
d. Carrying capacity

18.n 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.
c. Sustainability

Which basic principle of 'Sustainable

19.

Development' means responsibility and

accountability to future populations?
b. Inter-generational Equity
20.This type of planning has also been called 'synoptic,' 'static', 'normative,'
and 'Utopian', because it assumes a prior that professional planners have the
intelligence, noble intentions and expertise to synthesize extensive data,
analyze a relatively predictable world, and decide rightly on crucial questions,
of broader public interest.
d. Rational-Comparative Planning
21. The concepts of "input-throughput--output-feedback" come from what school of planning?
d. Systems Theory of Planning

22. 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

23. Under the Systems Theory of Planning by George Chadwick and Alan Wilson, under which
stage do policy-makers or decisionmakers make a firm resolve to pursue a specific course of
action?
d. System Synthesis

24. Allocative' or 'regulatory' or 'policy planning' in the tradition of Herbert Gans and TJ Kent is
concerned with solving chronic
problems of society by allocating resources efficiently and enacting laws, rules and standards. It
is therefore closest to which
planning approach?
a. Rational-comprehensive

25. Which principle of Strategic Planning rallies the organization and unifies its members around
a common purpose?
d. Engage stakeholders to pull together behind a single game plan for execution.

26. 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'

27. Which is a significant accomplishment of "Advocacy Planning" movement as fathered by

Paul Davidoff (1965)?
b. Social planning was moved from 'backroom negotiations' into the open public forum.

28. 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.
d. Sherry Arnstein

29. 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.
c. Hippodamus of Miletus

30. Which is a major contribution of classical Greek civilization 700-404 BCE to town planning?
b. The delineation between religious space & secular civic space as separate but
complementary spheres in society.
31. Built below the Acropolis in the heart of the city-state, 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'

32. 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?
b. Romans under the dictatorial Emperors.

33. 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

34. 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.
b. Sir Ebenezer Howard

35. The Garden City Movement in the United Kingdom directly addressed largescale problems
caused by the __?
c. Industrial Revolution.

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

c. Homestead of about one acre per family.

37. 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.
d. Daniel Hudson Burnham

38. "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 ... "
b. Daniel H. Burnham

39. "First we shape our buildings; thereafter, our buildings shape us." This quotation is attributed to
a. Winston Churchill

40. his 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

41. 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
b. City Functional Movement

42. 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:
b. Increase city density by building on a small part of land.

43. 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
c. Ciudad Lineal

44. Tony Garnier (1917) conceptualized a lush green city of about 35,000 inhabitants where 'man would
rule by himself.' 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.
d. Linear Industrial City

45. 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
agroindustrial settlement.
b. Broad acre city

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__?
d. The popularity of automobile as a means of transportation.

47. Which of the following is not a feature of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Broad Acre City' (1932)?
f. Densification would preserve much open space.

48. He proposed the 'neighborhood unit' (1929) as a self-contained 'garden suburb' bounded by major
streets, with shops at
intersections and 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

49. A Scottish biologist who authored the masterpiece entitled "Cities in Evolution" (1915) and who coined
the terms 'folk- workplace', 'city-region' and 'conurbation' is acknowledged as the 'father of regional
planning'
b. Sir Patrick Geddes

50. He led the crafting of the regional 'Greater London Plan of 1944', he designed some of 30 post-war
New Towns approved by theBritish Parliament, including Doncaster area and East Kent, in which he used
open space as structuring element.
a. Sir Patrick Leslie Abercrombie

51. Spring) on bio magnification of pesticides and chemicals in the human food chain; her advocacies bore fruit
in the creation of US
Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental Impact Assessment system in the 1970s.
c. Rachel Louise Carson

52. If 'Earth Hour' is observed on the last Saturday of March, 'Earth Day USA' is celebrated annually on April
22, 'World Town
Planning Day' falls on November 8, 'World Environment Day' is marked on the 51h day of the month of
b. June

53. f 'World Heritage Day' is marked each year on April 18, 'World Biodiversity Day' is observed on May 22,
'World Ocean Day' on
June 8, 'World Indigenous Peoples Day' on August 9, 'World Animal Day' on October 4, and 'World Food Day'
on October 16,
when is 'World Water Day' celebrated?
b. March 22

54. Based on his landmark book, "Design with Nature," 'map overlay' to identify 'ecological constraints' was a
tool devised in 1967
by the first modern environmental planner.
a. Ian L. McHarg

55. his started as a US federal program in 1949 which aimed to rehabilitate the outworn or decaying sections of
any town by
extending fund assistance to LGUs to undertake improvements in streetscapes, parks, green ways, housing,
community centers,
etc., based on anticipation that future tax revenues from real estate will pay for present costs.
d. Urban renewal

56. As chief planner of New York City, he collaborated with Thomas Adams in crafting the "Regional Plan of
New York and its
Environs 1922-1931 ;" he also conceived, and executed public works costing $27 billion between 1324 and
1968 and was
responsible for virtually every parkway, expressway, and public housing project in New York metropolitan area.
d. Robert Moses

57. The design of this city by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer (1957) features large open areas relating to one
other to demonstrate
'freedom' and an overall city layout resembling a 'dove in flight'.
a. Brasilia

58. Ekistics' or the 'science of human settlements' by Dr Konstantinos Doxiadis (1951) was built upon the
concept of "basic needs,"
which were later categorized by Johann Galtung into "material survival & security needs," "social or enabling
needs," and nonmaterial "human needs". Which grouping of needs was elaborated on by Abraham Maslow?
c. Physiological needs, physical safety, love and belongingness, esteem, self-actualization/self-realization.
d. Freedom, security, identity, well-being, ecological balance

59. The following are the basic elements of 'human settlements' according to Dr. Konstantinos Doxiadis. Which
one pertains to the
built environment or physical capital?
c. Shells and network
60. What is the smallest unit in the 'human settlements planning' or Ekistics by Dr Konstantinos Doxiadis
(1951 )?
b. Anthropos

61. In "Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961) and "Economy of Cities" (1969), this planner
maintains that 'diversity'
promotes innovation among proximate firms and spurs the growth of cities, thus s/he advocated for
heterogeneity, variety, and
mixture in the geographic clustering of firms as well as in the composition of city districts and
neighborhoods.
d. Jane Jacobs

62. All of the following schemes are associated with 'New Urbanism' except:
c. Exclusionary Zoning

63. ecause Pre-Spanish aboriginal communities in the Philippines were relatively small and based on
kinship relations, the most
common practice of land tenure in pre-colonial society, wherein one would merely enjoy the 'fruits' of
land, was called
c. Usufruct

64. This was the Spanish spatial strategy of forming dense settlements from scattered dwellings for
purposes of greater, military
defense and political control - literally bringing together dispersed population within hearing distance
of church bells -- which
policy was applied on most Spanish colonies from 16th to18th centuries.
c. Reduccion

65. Under the plaza complex pattern described in 'Le yes de las lndias' ( 1573), what would be
located next to each other around a
Greco-Roman quadrangle of a Spanish colonial settlement?
c. Church, town hall, school, public market

66. Through Presidential Letter of Instruction 367 in 1950 combining National Urban Planning
Commission, Real Property Board,
and Capital City Planning Commission, the government created this first physical planning body.
a. National Planning Commission

67. n 1964, Republic Act 4341 established this center to create a pool of professional planners in the
Philippines.
c. Institute of Planning

68. Presidential Decree No. 01 Integrated Reorganization Plan on September 24, 1972 increased the
number of Philippine regions
to 11, regionalized key ministries and line departments, and created a major planning agency of
government which is known
today as
d. National Economic and Development Authority

69. In 2012, how many administrative regions does the Philippines have?
d. 17
70. Under RA 7160 LGC Sec. 25, which of the following is not among the types of cities in the
Philippines?
c. Megacities

71. In 2011, which Philippine city had the biggest population, net income and IRA?
c. Quezon City

72. This 1997 document is the Philippines' official response to 1992 'UNCED Earth Summit' and contains a policy
framework that
redefines development as the 'drawing out of full human potential' according to the 'appropriate productivity' of nature,
rather
than optimal or maximum exploitation of natural resources to achieve GDP growth.
d. Philippine Agenda 21

73. This School of Thought holds that the settlements form in a balanced manner; they tend to be spread evenly and
symmetrically
in isotropic space, displaying both hierarchy and equilibrium arising from the interdependence between big and small
settlements and from the complementation between their respective scope of functions
b. Central Place Theory

74. his School of Thought maintains that cities are 'theaters of capital accumulation', largely a consequence of class-
based struggle
among groups for strategic dominance and control surplus. Such conflict is usually won by the rich and powerful
through agents
of capital such as multi-national corporations which use the city to amass wealth by raising property values through
commercialization, gentrification, manipulation, and land speculation.
b. Political Economy

75. This School of Thought describes a borderless global economy characterized by free trade and free movement of
capital wherein
nation-states would have 'lean and mean' governments which pursue policies of liberation, deregulation, privatization,
debureaucratization, 'unbundling', 'de-coupling', and similar structural adjustments.

c. Neo-Liberalism

76. Johann Heinreich von Thunen's theory of agricultural rent is symbolized as "LR=Y(p-c)-Ytd' where "Y" is yield or
total harvest,
"P" is price of crop, "C"is production cost of crop, "t" is transport cost and "D" is distance to market. If yield of palay is
3,500 kgs,
NFA buying price is P17.00 per kilo, distance is 5km., given farmer's gross production cost of 45 cents per square
meter per day
for unit production cost of P12.00 per kilo,would palay cultivation be profitable at this specific farm location if transport
cost is
P1.00 per kilo of palay?
b. No

77. In Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory, The catchment area of a central place takes the shape of a hexagon
rather than a
perfect circle. If a particular service or function such as elementary school enrolment is represented by the
formula,"C=2.6r2d,"
what would be the catchment area of elementary school if its radius is 0.50km and diameter is one km?
a. 0.65 sq. km

78. In Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory (1933), neighborhood store is an example of first- order services while
grocery store,
gas station, furniture shop, and post office are examples of
a. Secondary services
79. A chart-like tool to measure 'centrality' of a place particularly its range of economic and social functions, is called
d. Scalogram

80. All of the following are practical applications of Central Place Theory in the Philippines, except one.
c. Location of beach resorts

81. What Christallerian principles form the basis why a state university, a consumer mall, a huge
sports stadium, or a tertiary-level
hospital cannot be established in each and every Philippine municipality?
c. Market range and threshold population

82. The 'hierarchy of settlements' in Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory is characterized by
d. A few large cities, some medium cities, many small settlements

83. ccording to the Chicago school of human ecology, 'Invasion' refers to how pioneers and
opportunists push the 'land frontier'
farther out; when immigrants settle in waves, they define new land uses for themselves in a
process called
c. Succession

84. In the model of mono-centric cities, it is assumed that manufacturers locate close to
transport arteries, blue-collar workers locate
close to their jobs, while traders and retailers pay higher for choice locations in city center to
have command of the market. This
pattern of land use is explained better by which theory of spatial planning?
a. Urban Bid-Rent by Alonso

85. "When all land is identical and there is perfect competition among profit maximizing firms,
land is sold to the highest willing
bidder. As a firm moves closer to the center of a place, transport costs fall which increases the
amount a firm is willing to pay for
land. Thus, land at the center always has the highest value.
b. William Alonso, Richard E. Muth, and Edwin S. Mills

86. 'Leapfrog development' and 'sprawl' are what you commonly see in what Peirce F. Lewis
calls
d. Galactic City

87. The 'multiple nuclei' model of Harris and Ullmann (1945) posits that
b. Diversified economic functions of cities cluster around several points of growth

88. 'Urban development' tends to occur along major transportation routes because
d. People tend to locate where exchange, interchange, and access to other land uses are at
maximum

89. Which theorist of urban land use states categorically that land use follows transport in the
same manner that both population
and business follow roads?
b. Homer Hoyt
90. Which of the following land-use models describes the pattern of radial or axial growth along
lines of least resistance?
c. Sector Model

91. n the model of Homer Hoyt, the sections of urban land with the highest values are those:
d. Along major roadways

92. The original concept of 'megalopolis' as an extended or super-sized urban area is

attributed to
a. Jean Gottman

93. Which characteristic of megalopolis describes its tendency to develop a multi-nuclei or

multi-nodal spatial pattern?
c. Has complex form as 'mother city' breeds smaller offspring cities in sprawling manner.

94. This process deals with efficient placement of activities and land uses such as farms,
settlements, industries, transport hubs,
infrastructure, wilderness etc. across a significantly large area broader than a single city or
town.
c. Regional Planning

95. Klaasen enumerates the criteria for creating planning regions as follows. Which criterion
pertains to the role of a leading center
or a complex of exporting firms or lead industries?
c. Must contain at least one growth point.

96. Which is not a method to delineate a region?

a. Force Field analysis

97. "High-growth regions with expanding economic activity will attract net migration from
other parts of the country, thus favoring them further. Capital investments tend to have a
similar effect: increased demand in expanding centers spur additional investments, which in
turn will increase incomes and demand or cause a further round of investments."
a. Cumulative Causation

98. According to Gunnar Myrdal, 'forward linkage' refers to the 'development of external
economies for an industry's products"
while 'backward linkage' refers to
b. Development of auxiliary industries to supply input

99. 'Residentiary services' refers to domestic living-related services such as housing,

grocery, catering, recreation, etc. while
'services that cut across varied types of firms such as security, banking, insurance, courier
services, etc. are called
c. Diagonal

100. Which thrust of regional planning addresses core-periphery, center-hinterland

economic exchange & spatial integration?
a. Enforce urban growth control such as greenbelts or analogous schemes to protect the
natural environment.