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WorksheetsTAPP, SPP, BUILDING CODE
Total questions: 77
Worksheet time: 1hrs 17mins
Motor courts in subdivision shall have a right-of-way of NOT less than meters.
3
4
5
6
What is the width of the major road right-of-way, in meters, for subdivision of projects size 2.5 hectares and below?
10
4
6
8
What is the width of the major road right-of-way, in meters, for subdivision of projects size above 5 to 10 hectares?
6
10
9
12
What is the width of the minor road right-of-way, in meters, for subdivision of projects size above 5 to 10 hectares?
6
12
8
10
The following statement is NOT relevant to space planning
How people will move through the spaces is considered.
Who will use the space should be considered.
How people spend their time in the building is considered
How the building design character will adapt to the community is considered
The following statement is NOT relevant to space planning.
Privacy of people is considered.
Proper selection of competent engineering consultants is considered
Elements like lighting and ventilation are considered
Accessibility or making the space easy to use is considered
What should a prospective home builder/owner first do before proceeding with his/her project?
Select his/her engineer
Select his/her construction manager
Select his/her budget
Select his/her Architect
What should an architect first do when he/she comes across a prospective client?
Submits professional brief and fee proposal
Sign service agreement
Submits concept designs
Undertake preliminary research
Which of the process comes first?
Prepare contract documents
Sign a service agreement
Prepare design development
Submits design concept
What stage of the process does the professional fee of the architect is approved by the owner?
After the submission of the schematic design
During the submission of the schematic design
Before the submission of the schematic design
During the submission of the concept design
What stage of the process does the probable cost of the project is submitted to the owner?
Before signing the service agreement
After the approval of the schematic design
During the submission of the schematic design
After signing the service agreement
The law that governs the design of low-cost housing is
RA 9266
PD 1096
BP 220
BP 344
A lot or land intended for construction site can be best described by its ___.
TCT
Lot Plan
Site survey
OCT
A lot or land intended for construction site can be best described by its ___.
Right of way
Highway
Alley
Street
What is RROW?
Recreational Right Of Way
Rough Road Of Ways
Road Right Of Way
Right Road Of Way
What is an OCT?
Overland Committee for Transport
Original Certificate of Title
Over-all Certificate of Title
Original Copy of Title
Defined as intensive foci from which the observer is traveling
Paths
Edges
Nodes
Districts
Most dominant element for most person's image of the city.
Paths
Nodes
Edges
Districts
Responsive environments that focus on details, with a wide vocabulary of visual cues possess.
Legibility
Visual Appropriateness
Variety
Personalization
The shape of urban cities formed by two corridors of intense development crossing the center.
Radio-centric
Articulated Sheet
Rectilinear
Linear
Acknowledged as the icon of middle class suburbanization during the 1950s
Projects 1 to 8
Philam-Life Homes
Forbes Park
Quezon City
Largest in land area among Metro Manila’s 12 cities:
City of Manila
Kalookan City
Quezon City
Muntinlupa City
Among Lynch’s elements of the city, these are defined as lateral references that are not coordinated axes:
Paths
Edges
Nodes
Districts
Among Lynch’s elements of the city, these are defined as lateral references that are not coordinated axes:
Paths
Edges
Nodes
Districts
The third level of Ian Bentley’s responsive environments; important in terms of physical form and activity patterns:
Permeability
Legibility
Robustness
Richness
Designed Seaside, which signified the start of the New Urbanism movement:
Peter Katz
Peter Calthorpe
Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
David Sucher and Daniel Solomon
According to Tonnies, what type of community life is one in which impersonal, superficial & business-like relationships prevail
Rural
Damay
Gesselschaft
Gemeinschaft
Determines current housing needs:
Housing to be replaced
Housing for new family formation
Housing special groups
All of the Above
The first planned park in the United States
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Central Park, New York
Yosemite Park, California
Washington Park, Chicago
The largest city of the Yellow River Valley of China
Anyang
Ghejin
Sunru ghin
Beijing
Designer of the European planned city of Savannah in Georgia, USA
Frederick Law Olmstead
Col. Frank Nicholson
Charles Fourier
James Oglethorpe
The first city that signified the rise of the church, with the church being an integral part of its urban design
Rome
Constantinople
Madrid
Versailles
The military towns of Spanish settlements
Laws of the Indies
Pueblo
Presidio
Missions
The first noted urban planner because of his design of the city of Miletus
Vitruvius
Hippodamus
Damascus
Paleo
The best representation of the “speculators town” of the settlements in early America
Charleston
Williamsburg
Philadelphia
New York City
Leader of the Reform Movements during the Industrial Revolution
Robert Owens
Ebenezer Howard
James Oglethorpe
Soria Y Mata
Author of “Tomorrow: a Peaceful Path to Social Reform” and main proponent of the Garden Cities
Robert Owen
Ebenezer Howard
James Oglethorpe
Soria Y Mata
The first garden city designed by Raymund Unwin and Barry Parker:
Welwyn
Hampstead
Letcheworth
Windsor
Designed the Garden City of Welwyn:
Unwin and Parker
Ebenezer Howard
Louis de Soisson
Clarence Perry
World fair in Chicago in 1891, setting off the City Beautiful Era:
The Columbian Exposition
The White City
World Cities Expo
City Beautiful Movement
Designed the reconstruction of Paris using the principles of the city beautiful movement:
John Nash
Daniel Burnham
Charles Buckingham
Baron Hausmann
Designed the Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil during the City Beautiful era:
Albert T Meyer
Edward Lutyens
Walter Griffin
Lucio Costa
Frank Lloyd Wright’s project proposal that would allot one acre of land to each American family:
Le Contemporaine
Unite D Habitation
Broadacres
Acreville
Proposed the Linear City that would serve as a satellite to the city of Madrid
Jose Marseilles
Diego San Andres
Soria Y Mata
Felipe Selecios
Proposed the “Arcology Alternative: or 3D city:
Soria Y Mata
Paolo Soleri
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kiyonori Kikutake
Proposed the first “Floating City” as an alternative to land reclamation:
Soria Y Mata
Paolo Soleri
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kiyonori Kikutake
Believed that planning should first start at the micro level and thus designed the “neighborhood unit”:
Clarence Perry and Clarence Stein
Ebenezer Howard
Frank Lloyd Wright & Louis Sullivan
Louis Kahn
Describes the housing shortage or backlog.
Difference between number of acceptable housing & number of families
Housing for new family formation
Housing produced minus existing housing
All of the above
Type of urban ecological process in land use planning patterning in cities or communities defined as the entrance of a new population and/or facilities into an occupied area
Succession
Invasion
Concentration
Decentralization
In the increase of urban population, which of the following factors indicates excess of in-migration over out-migration.
Natural increase
Reclassification
Concentration
Net Migration
Factors indicating Net Migration.
Excess of births over deaths
Excess in young population
Excess of in-migration over out-migration
Rural areas having achieved urban status
Urban design control that allows builders and developers more space if they provide desirable features such as plazas, arcades, and other open spaces
Flexible Zoning
Incentive Zoning
Cluster Zoning
Land Use Planning
The largest and simplest function of a city
Economic
Government
Housing
Transportation
Intersections that separate lanes of traffic by use of islands.
Channelization
Rotaries
Clover leaf
Diamonds
Basic subdivision design.
Grid iron
Radial on grid iron
Curvilinear
Radial super blocks
What major problem brought about the discipline of city planning?
Physical Chaos
Land Value
Urban growth
Crime
What part of basic data and planning studies in a comprehensive development plan describes the physical setting of the community or region?
Economic base study
Man-made features
Land use survey and inventory
History and geography
The urban model of growth and development that presents the emergence of self-sufficient sectors.
Concentric zone model
Multiple nuclei model
Sector model
Urban realms model
Density control method that regulates the proportions between the built area of the building and the lot area.
Number of occupants per square meter
Floor area ratio
Number of occupants per floor
Floor space index
A general term to describe the idea of consciously renewing the outworn areas of towns and cities.
Historic preservation
Adaptive reuse
Urban renewal
Urban gentrification
A mixed use community with an average 670 meters distance of a transit stop and commercial core area. PETER CALTHORPE
Transit oriented development
Traditional neighborhood development
Planned unit development
New urbanism
A group of architects, planners, and urban designers formed to educate citizens worldwide of the benefits of new urbanism.
The Council of New Urbanism
The Congress for New Urbanism
The New Urbanism Movement
The Association of New Urbanists
According to the new theory of New Urbanism, neighborhoods must have a discernible center within a five minute of walk of all dwellings, and equivalent to ___.
200 to 300 meters
300 to 500 meters
600 to 700 meters
Approximately 1 kilometer
Minimum width of sidewalks, according to new urbanism principles
1.20 meters
2.00 meters
2.50 meters
3.00 meters
Which of the following indicates good site planning
Maximized land use/space
Controlled environmental hazards
Efficient maintenance
All of the above
One of the key housing agencies of HUDCC that concentrates on the production aspect of housing
HLURB
NHA
NHMFC
HIGC
One of the funding agencies of Housing, locally known as the Pag-ibig Fund.
GSIS
HDMF
SSS
143 Fund
An urban design control that is used to limit height and building bulk, creates setbacks and open space, and ultimately generate a relatively uniform urban fabric, computed as the ratio of the total floor area and the lot area.
Building Code
Floor Area Ratio
Floor Space index
Land Zoning
The salient provision of this law requires developers of proposed subdivision project at least 20% of the total subdivision area or total subdivision project cost for socialized housing.
RA 7279
RA 1432
RA 4266
RA 1680
The wet and dry market is its main feature with quasi-residential commercial or mixed-use development.
Central Business District
Town Center
Neighborhood Center
Minor CBD
Refers to the acquisition of land at values based on existing use in advance of actual need to promote planned development and socialized housing programs.
Land investing
Land Swapping
Land Banking
Land Assembly
Refers to the process of land acquisition by exchanging land for another piece of land of equal value, or for shares of stock in a government or quasi-government corporation.
Land investing
Land swapping
Land banking
Land assembly
Refers to those areas declared as such under existing statutes and pertinent executive issuances.
Idle lands
Areas of priority development
Blighted lands
Component lands
Refers to the areas where the structures are dilapidated, obsolete and unsanitary, tending to depreciate the value of the land and prevent normal development and use of the area.
a. Idle lands
b. Blighted lands
c. Areas for priority development
d. Component lands
Constructed and financed by the private sector as a business venture and sold at prevailing market prices and interest.
a. Condominium Project
b. Economic and Socialized Housing
c. Subdivision Project
d. Open Market Housing
Housing project for moderately low-income families with lower interest rates and longer amortization periods
a. Condominium Project
b. Economic and Socialized Housing
c. Subdivision Project
d. Open Market Housing
As per NSO, what structure is 3 or more units, intended for residential use only, usually consisting of 3 or more housing units?
a. Single House
b. Duplex
c. Multi-Unit Residence
d. Medium-Density Residence
