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Module 1 Flashcards

1
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Studies the Earth

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Geology

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2
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Art of Arranging Structures

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Site Planning

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3
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Composite sizes of particles in a soil sample

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Texture

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4
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Slope form that is not detactable on contour maps

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L-shape

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5
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Imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface

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Contours

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6
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Determine the existing availability of utilities on site in terms of adequacy and efficiency

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Drainage/sewage system

Water supply

Electrical power supply

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7
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Permeable geological stratum

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Aquifer

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8
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Studies water of the earth

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Hydrology

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9
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Selects from a list of potential sites

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Site selection process

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10
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Deals with origin, nature, and distribution of landforms

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Geomorphology

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11
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Detailed description/representation on a map of the natural and artificial features of an area

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Topography

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12
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Captures precipitation, filters and stores water and drains water to a shared designation

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Watershed

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13
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Influences the privacy, social contact among people, and freedom of movement of an individual or a group of people

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Density

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14
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Study of the community and its social and economic structures

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Socio-economic factors

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15
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Confined view usually directed toward a terminal or dominant feature

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Vista

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16
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Regulate the type of development

Divides into land-use that are designated by building coverage, density of population and open space

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Zoning regulations

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17
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Contribute to city planning and policy making

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Landscape architects

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18
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Designed Centrap Park in New York

Writer about social conditions in South during slavery

Founder of the profession law

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Frederick Law Olmstead

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19
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Designed the landscaping of Manila Hotel

Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture

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Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr.

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20
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Population density is under what kind of map?

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Thematic map

21
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A given site is configured to an arrangement of elements that evoke activity/ flow

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Spatial Pattern

22
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In order to find the best location for each type of land use, the regional planner/ landscape architect must analyze—

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Slope

Vegetation

Soil type

23
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Allows to coordinate all the information and to make a composite map indicating how to best use the land

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Geographic Information Sytem

24
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Reasons every landscape design has to be different

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Designers have to be original

The zoning requires

Each parcel of land is different

25
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Components of geography

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Cultural

Physical

Economic

26
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Teaches us that advantageous to speed up the flow of drainage water

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Water cycle

27
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This map important physical, biological, and social/cultural attributes.

This may include circulation patterns and traffic volumes, existing utility systems, or architectural character within the surrounding built environment.

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Site Inventories

28
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Summarizes the site’s suitability for the programmed uses

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Site analysis

29
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Defines/spatially articulates, these diagrammatic elements of the concept plan

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Design development

30
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3 basic categories of Sustainable Development Principles

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Social

Environmental

Economic

31
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Generates construction drawings with written construction specifications

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Construction Documentation

32
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Defines the project’s objectives and functional requirements

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Programming

33
Q

Canberra is capital of what country?

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Australia

34
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Spearheaded the City Beautiful Movement

Designed Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Manila and Baguio

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Daniel Burnham

35
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Father of European Urban Planning who designed the Greek first cities

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Hippodamus of Miletus

36
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Greek first cities were created at this period

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700BC

37
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An element of site analysis

Refers to the precipitation, annual rain, humidity, wind direction, solar intensity

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Climate

38
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An architect would have to look at regulations other than the zoning ordinance to find a requirement for

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Required size of utility easement

39
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An element of site analysis

Refers to power, sewage, gas network and motor supply

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Utilities

40
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A property can best be described with

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Location within a subdivision

Meters and bounds

Reference to a section and township

41
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Approving government unit for subdivision project development permit

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LGU

42
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Designing a low cost housing project basis for design

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International Law on Human Settlements

43
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Long term plan that is required of the entire local government unit in the Philippines

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Comprehensive Development Plan

44
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Best circulation design alternative for a site plan

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Separate pedestrian and vehicular circulation systems

45
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Urban planner and author who argues that for any given city, a corresponding set of mental images exist in the minds of the people who experience that city

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Kevin Lynch

46
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Follow symmetrical patterns, straight lines and precise geometry shapes

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Formal Landscape

47
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Program is developed as a solution to a problem at hand

Deals with schematic design

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Synthesis phase

48
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Shows boundaries and ownership of land parcels

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Cadastral map

49
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Direction of the slope faces

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Aspect

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