The sole government agency engaged in direct shelter production focused on providing housing assistance to the lowest 30% of urban income-earners.

Mobilizes all necessary resources to broaden the capital base for the effective delivery of housing and other related services, primaly for the low income earners though a viable system of credit insurance, mortgage guarantee and securities.

Sole regulatory for housing and land development

The major government home mortgage institution.

Focuses on the administrtion of a nationwide provident fund for the government's housing program and formulated other investment strategies relative to housing as well as improve its collection efficiancy. (Pag-Ibig Fund)

Lead agency to undertake social housing programs that will cater to the formal and informal sectors in the low income bracket. (Community Mortgage Program and Abot-Kaya Pagahay Fund)

A general term to describe the idea of conciously renewing the outworn areas of towns and cities.

Converting old, usually historic buildings, sections of entire districts to new uses other than their original purpose.

Ter used to describe the idea of repairing, redecorating and in some cases converting existing structurally sound property to a standard compatible with modern requirements of amenity and health.

A type of urban ecological process defined as the entrance of a new population and/or facilities in an already occupied area

Forcing the old population out of the area because of social or racial differences.

An urban ecological process in city land use patterning referring to an increase in population at a certain geographic center

Improving the physical set-up and consequently affecting the market for previous run-down areas

The shift from rural to urban living and the increased concentration of the human population in densely populated cities

It originated in architectural societies, deriving from the obvious logic of parallel plowing. Usually seen in agricultural settlements

He planned Greek towns (Miletus) using a rectilinear pattern of blocks

During the ancient Greece, when a town reaches the largest practical size, a new town is started at another nearby site. The new town would be called the neopolis, while the old one would be referred to as the _____

The main street, oriented north-south of a roman town planning

The secondary main street, oriented east-west of a roman town planning

Settlements were often centered around churches, castles and lords

An ideal city built in Italy

An ideal city proposed by Filarete

Long, straight boulevards (“vista avenues”) served to make large expanses of terrain visible, and thus comprehensible

Planned according to Baroque principles

"Garden Cities" proposed cluster configuration of cities using what he believed were optimum city sizes

It is noted for being the first garden city designed by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker in 1902

Which of the following is not a main goal of the City Beautiful Movement?

Father of American City Planning

Which city/place is not planned by Daniel Burnham?

Brasilia (Brazil) was designed by who?

The only realized city plan of Le Corbusier.

The masterplan was based on an 800m x 1200m block module.

(Based of original plan by Albert Myer)

An unrealized urban plan by Le Corbusier, also often called “The City of Towers” Radical, strict and nearly totalitarian in its order, symmetry and standardization

His vision of an ideal city where each family would own one acre of land. All important transport is done by automobile and the pedestrian can exist safely only within the confines of the one acre plots.

The Linear City was proposed by ____.

An elongated urban formation designed along a fast mass transit system

Proposed by Paolo Soleri, it is a huge structure housing a self-sustaining community isolated from the rest of the world.

Renowned as the first city to which the principles of modern town-planning were applied.