______ Settlement grows by natural accretion around its source of life – usually a body of water, food basket, or locus of commerce

Human adaptation gives settlement its “shape and pattern”

______ settlement is purposively designed with identifiable core, nodes, transport network, and edges.

Might be a result of royal decree during colonial period, or a statute from modern legislature, or thorough re-planning by a specialist commissioned by local government.

The development of _____ influenced the division of land into separately owned plots aided by the plow which achieved the rectilinear plots guided by the “square measure”

The converging routes and the later roads marking the lines of successive city walls together may produce a plan resembling a spider’s web, and it is to the Middle Ages that some authorities ascribe the first use of the _____ still typical of many European cities

______ became the first template to design the conquest and layout of Spain's territories in the Americas and the Philippines. In the establishment of mission settlements by the Spanish religious, spatial choices, and organization, the code dictated the location of new settlements that later on became town nuclei, the apportionment of land to Spain's loyal soldiers, the church-plaza centric arrangement, and the humane manner by which the conquerors should treat the natives.

______ literally meaning "reduction under the church bells," the reducción became the seed from which villages and later towns evolved and developed, under the watch and supervision of Spain's religious missionaries. The religious gathered the natives in a doctrina or religious mission and, thus, from there preached the Christian doctrine.

The______ mirrored the provisions of the Laws of the Indies, which served as the planning backbone for the first centuries of conquest, pacification and reduction under the fold of Christianity and the protection of the Spanish Crown. Emerging as political units, this arrangement reflects the social stratification prevalent in the period.

______ are watershed events that triggered the genesis of American sanitary order in the Philippines in which American colonial therapeutics justified the use of force in the aggressive overhaul of the physical urban space and the native practices that occurred within its domain.

______ was issued on November 20, 1943 instructing the cultivation of all available lands for the production of food crops. Thiswas prompted by food shortage and an unprecedented rise in essential commodities. The ordinance, which was a reiteration of Executive Order No. 40 signed by Vargas in May 14, 1942, led to the unregulated slash-and-burn agriculture and the destruction of many forest areas.