Urban Planning Concepts and Definitions

Question 1

Refers to the rational and judicious development, utilization and management of land resources in a sustainable manner to ensure that needs of the present generation can be met without jeopardizing the needs of the future generations.

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Land Use Planning

Question 2

Refers to the rational approach of allocating available land resources as equitably as possible among competing user groups and for different functions consistent with the development plan of the area.

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Land Use Plan

Question 3

Refers to a document embodying specific proposals for guiding, regulating growth and/or development.

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Comprehensive Land Use Plan

Question 4

Involves the allocation of land areas for such space using functions of city life as residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, recreational and other activities in the “built environment”.

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Urban Land Use Planning

Question 5

Enacted through zoning ordinances which shall be the primary and dominant bases for the future use of
land resources.

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Comprehensive Land Use Plan

Question 6

Refers to sites and lands which, considering present characteristics and prevailing conditions, display marked and great potential of becoming urban areas within the period of five (5) years

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Urbanizable Areas

Question 7

Pertains to the way future population and related activities are organized and distributed over the municipal territory, taking into account the need to retain some areas in their open character and to ensure safe and sustainable environments for human habitat.

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Urban Form

Question 8

Refers to all cities regardless of their population density and to municipalities with population density of at least five hundred (500) persons per square kilometer

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Urban Areas

Question 9

Means meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of the future generations.

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Sustainable Development

Question 10

Deals primarily with the non-urban large scale uses such as croplands, forests, pasture lands, mining/quarrying areas and swamplands, with areas occupied by structures treated collectively as “built-up” areas.

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General Land Use Plan

Question 11

A document consisting of statements accompanied by diagrams and illustrations setting out and justifying broad land use policies (but not detailed land allocations) for the area, policies for the management of traffic and provisions of utility and service systems, and measures for the improvement of the physical environment.

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Comprehensive Land Use Plan

Question 12

Basically, concerned with the location intensity and amount of land development required for various space-using functions such as residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, recreation and other activities found in the urban areas.

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Urban Land Use Plan

Question 13

Vacant lands are land parcels bypassed by development and lying unutilized amidst lands that have been converted to some type of functional use.

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In-filling

Question 14

Certain sections of the inner-city areas may be underutilized but have the capacity to accommodate higher densities or greater use intensity.

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Densification

Question 15

May be an alternative means of urban real estate for cities and municipalities bordering on seashore or lakeshore areas

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Reclamation

Question 16

By improving the level of welfare of rural residents their desire to migrate to the urban areas might be dampened to some extent.

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Improved Rural Services

Question 17

When outward expansion of the existing urban areas is severely constrained and upward expansion has reached tolerable limits.

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New Alternative Centers

Question 18

An effective way of decentralizing urban population. But the economic and social costs are tremendous both to relocated families and to society.

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Relocation of Resettlement

Question 19

An implementing tool of the CLUP which provides the different land use districts of the city/municipality.

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Zoning Ordinance

Question 20

TRUE OR FALSE. The CLUP is not an executory plan but rather a guide or framework for more detailed planning of the area.

Answer 20

True