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Planning 2 (Credits to Reviewer 2015)

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 47mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Rebirth of classical towns; plazza planning in Venice; grandeur in civic structure and public spaces; streets were wide regular and circumferential with the piazza at the center as in Italy.

a)

Renaissance

b)

Medieval

c)

Byzantine

d)

Romanesque

2.

He suggested the idea of "Linear City from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg, Russia in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility should be the basis of all city layout.

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Ebenezer Howard

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Arturo Soria Y Mata

3.

He believed the use of open space as element of urban system and the urban park as an aid to social reform.

a)

Clarence Perry

b)

Frederick Olmstead

c)

Clarence Stein

d)

Arturo Soria Y Mata

4.

It combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either.

a)

New Towns

b)

New Urbanism

c)

Garden Cities

d)

Neighborhood

5.

According to him, the city was a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers incl. city hall, a country court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza.

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Ebenezer Howard

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Arturo Soria Y Mata

6.

Approaches town planning as a science which includes planning and design as well as contributions from the sociologist, geographer, economist, demographer, politician, social anthropologist, ecologist, etc. all these he assembles into a total rational and human approach which he calls "Ekistics" - the science of human settlements.

a)

Lewis Mumford

b)

Constantine Doxiadis

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

7.

He developed the neighborhood principle based on the natural catchment area of community facilities such as primary schools and local shops.

a)

Clarence Perry

b)

Frederick Olmstead

c)

Clarence Stein

d)

Arturo Soria Y Mata

8.

He proposed "La Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)" anchored on objective to decongest centers of cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area.

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Arturo Soria Y Mata

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

9.

A center of activity, distinguished by virtue of its active function; it is a district hub of activity.

a)

Town center

b)

Nodes

c)

CBD

d)

Urban core

10.

District visual object that help in orienting people in the city and help identify an area

a)

Districts

b)

Nodes

c)

Landmarks

d)

Edges

11.

The concept of the center is probably the single most important idea with which the designer works because of the following reasons except for one which is:

a)

It gives the city "imageability or a strong image".

b)

Nodes are points, the strategic spots in a city into which an observer can enter, and which are the intensive foci to from which he is traveling.

c)

Emphasize all parts of the city

d)

Lively, pedestrian-friendly downtowns with a mixture of stores, merchants, services, and public spaces.

12.

Refers to all cities regardless of their population density and to municipalities with a population density of at least five hundred persons per hectare

a)

Urban area

b)

Component city

c)

Independent city

d)

Highly urbanized city

13.

Refers to an area with at least 200,000 people and income of Php 50M or more

a)

Component city

b)

Metropolitan area

c)

Highly-urbanized city

d)

Independent component city

14.

Rectilinear land division during ancient times is a result of what?

a)

Herding

b)

Defense

c)

Plow farming

d)

Politics

15.

Radburn represented a dramatic advance in community planning. It introduced the following except this one.

a)

Introduced a hierarchy of roadways

b)

Deliberately separated pedestrian and vehicular traffic

c)

Houses were oriented towards the streets.

d)

Introduced the concept of the residential superblock.

16.

First documented settlement with streets with a narrow main street heading uphill and a wider terminal which might be a social spot.

a)

Jericho

b)

Khriokitia

c)

Catalhuyuk

d)

Damascus

17.

Ancient cities in Indus Valley well-known for their impressive, organized, and regular layout and had advanced and extensive drainage system

a)

Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa

b)

Thebes and Memphis

c)

Eridu and Jericho

d)

Damascus and Babylon

18.

The first noted urban planner who introduced the grid system and the agora

a)

Arthemus

b)

Hippodamus

c)

Miletus

d)

Spartacus

19.

This affected the urban design of most towns during the medieval ages

a)

Wars

b)

Religion

c)

Politics

d)

Feudalism

20.

What became a major element of town planning and urban design during the Renaissance and Baroque periods?

a)

Arts and architecture

b)

Universities

c)

Coastal towns

d)

World trade

21.

The first university town

a)

Paris

b)

Versailles

c)

Vienna

d)

Karlsruhe

22.

A Spanish "Laws of the Indies" town classified as civil

a)

Pueblo

b)

Mission

c)

Poblacion

d)

Presidio

23.

The first garden city designed by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker in 1902

a)

Welwyn

b)

Letchworth

c)

Hampstead

d)

London

24.

This urban quality offers users a choice of experiences thru forms, uses, and meanings

a)

Variety

b)

Robustness

c)

Vitality

d)

Legibility

25.

Environments which can be used for many different purposes supported by factors such as building depth, access and building height

a)

Variety

b)

Robustness

c)

Vitality

d)

Legibility

26.

An environment where there's a variety of sense experiences that users can enjoy

a)

Robustness

b)

Richness

c)

Visual appropriateness

d)

Personalization

27.

A street pattern used in highly mountainous sites following the contours of the topography

a)

Meandering

b)

Geometric

c)

Cul-de-sac

d)

Loops

28.

One disadvantage of this street pattern is the eventual narrowness of certain lot frontages especially along the curvature.

a)

Meandering

b)

Geometric

c)

Cul-de-sac

d)

Loops

29.

The termination of a district or a seam between two communities

a)

Pathways

b)

Districts

c)

Edges

d)

Landmarks

30.

The most important space found within the rules of the Leyes de las Indias

a)

Parish Church

b)

Town Plaza

c)

Fort

d)

Tribunal

31.

The most practical of street layout

a)

Curvilinear

b)

Grid

c)

Meandering

d)

Circumferential

32.

A geographic area within which residents conveniently share the common services and facilities needed in the vicinity of their dwellings

a)

Neighborhood

b)

Organization

c)

Street

d)

Land

33.

A spatial development concept that suggests that by investing heavily in capital intensive industries in the largest urban centers, government in developing 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)

Central Place Theory

c)

Concept of Propulsive Firms

d)

Urban Growth Model

34.

The rehabilitation of deteriorated inner-city housing with favorable locations relative to the CBD

a)

Gentrification

b)

Yuppification

c)

Urban Renewal

d)

Urban Seam

35.

Patrick Geddes coined this term to mean the conglomeration of town aggregates, describing the waves of population to large cities followed by overcrowding slum formation.

a)

Backflow

b)

Broadacre

c)

Amorphic

d)

Connurbation

36.

The maximum distance a consumer is willing to travel to avail of a good or service beyond which people will look to another center

a)

Hierarchy of services

b)

Market area analysis

c)

Market range

d)

Core periphery

37.

Which is not included in the elements of human settlements?

a)

Nature

b)

Man

c)

Network

d)

Community

38.

He wrote the book "The Disappearing City" and later "Broadacres".

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Le Corbusier

c)

Frank Lloyd Wright

d)

Daniel Burnham

39.

Growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas

a)

Urbanization

b)

Demography

c)

Urban sprawl

d)

Connurbation

40.

An urban planning approach that puts priority on people and environment wherein the model is the traditional city neighborhood that existed before where workplaces, shops and houses where within walking distance of each other

a)

Garden City

b)

New Urbanism

c)

Letchworth

d)

Welwyn

41.

He postulated that land use diminish intensively in reverse relationship to increased distance.

a)

von Thunen

b)

William Alonso

c)

Lowdon Wingo Jr.

d)

Robert Malthus

42.

He postulated that population increases in a geometric ration while food production increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will follow.

a)

von Thunen

b)

William Alonso

c)

Lowdon Wingo Jr.

d)

Robert Malthus

43.

Suggested an agropolitan approach of concentrating development activities in rural districts with from about 50,000 to 150,000 people.

a)

Friedman and Douglas

b)

Ebenezer Howard

c)

Doxiadis

d)

Kevin Lynch

44.

He prepared the Greater London Plan of 1944.

a)

Abercrombie

b)

Raymund Unwin

c)

Barry Parker

d)

Lewis Mumford

45.

Describes scenery or elements beyond the actual design that become an important or integral part of the composition. In Chinese gardens it is described as jie jing, in Japanese landscapes shakkel, and in Italian design as integrazione scenica

a)

Borrowed view

b)

Structuring elements

c)

Points of transition

d)

Hierarchy

46.

The practice of forming beds of low-growing foliage plants, all of an even height, in patterns that resemble a carpet both in intricacy of design and in uniformity of surface. Designs can vary from geometrical shapes to images and lettered inscriptions.

a)

Lawn

b)

Carpet bedding

c)

Meadow

d)

Parterre

47.

Literally translates as "green cloth". It is a swath of lawn, usually rectilinear in shape, used to strengthen a visual axis or focus attention on an object. It can define an edge, serve as a form of contrast between the smooth texture of the ground plane and the surrounding plant materials, or function as an element of transition between buildings and the natural landscape.

a)

Tapis Vert

b)

Parterre

c)

Arbor

d)

Espalier