General Flashcards
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
d. Environmental Planning
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 Mclughlin
d. George Chadwick e. Alan Wilson
a. John Ratcliffe
Which is not a key feature of ‘professional’ planning process? a. Proactive
b. Problem solving
c. Algorithmic
d. Futuristic
e. People-driven
c. Algorithmic
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
d. Exhibits a street pattern
a. It exports substantial quantities of processed products.
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 twokilometer radius from the barangay hall, then it is considered urban
a. If a barangay has more fishery output and shellcraft activities compared to farms, then it is considered urban
A ‘city’ is a significantly-large urban area which has:
a. A cluster of skyscrapers
b. A charter of legal proclamation
c. A rectilinear or orthogonal street design
d. A seaport or an airport
b. A charter of legal proclamation
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
d. All of the choices
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
a. At least 200,000
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 economicagglomeration, spatial
alteration, and socio-cultural change a. Industrialization
b. Urbanization
c. Social Transformation
d. Modernization
b. Urbanization
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
c. Aims for mass production thru mechanization & automation
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
c. Industrial society
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.
a. Decentralization
b. Dispersion
c. Exurbanization
d. Urban Sprawl
d. Urban Sprawl
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. “blight 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
d. Substantial wage differentials between urban labor and rural labor for the same level of skill, task, or occupation
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 and amenity
c. Tolerance and plurality
d. Efficiency & economy
c. Tolerance and plurality
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
b. To slow down rural-to-urban movement by means of migration control and population management
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
d. Tragedy of the Commons
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.”
a. Limits to growth
b. Tipping point
c. Range and threshold
d. Carrying capacity
d. Carrying capacity
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
c. Sustainability
Which basic principle of ‘Sustainable Development’ means responsibility and accountability to future populations?
a. Common Heritage of Humankind
b. Inter-generational Equity
c. Caring Capacity
d. Parity of Compeers
b. Inter-generational Equity
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.
a. Equity or activist or advocacy planning
b. Strategic Planning
c. Traditional planning or command planning or imperative planning
d. Rational-Comparative Planning
d. Rational-Comparative Planning
The concepts of “input-throughput–output-feedback” come from what school of planning?
a. Communicative Planning
b. Liberal Pluralistic Planning
c. Incremental Planning
d. Systems Theory of Planning
d. Systems Theory of Planning
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
a. Cyclical. Iterative, and self-correcting
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?
a. System Description
b. System Modeling
c. System Projection
d. System Synthesis
e. System Control
d. System Synthesis
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
b. Traditional or command planning
c. Strategic planning
d. Communicative planning
a. Rational-comprehensive