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7/24/2019 Ud Questions

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1. Urban Planner and Designer famous

for his words Make no little plans, theyhave no magic to stir mens blood:

a) Le Corbusier

b) Daniel Burnham

c) Parsons

d) Ebenezer Howard


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2. Acknowledged as the oldest

continually inhabited city in the world:

a) Babylon

b) Eridu

c) Damascus

d) Athens


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3. The first planned park in the United States

a) Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

b) Central Park, New York By FrederickLaw Olmstead

c) Yosemite Park, California

d) Washington Park, Chicago


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4. The largest city of the Yellow River

Valley of China:

a) Anyang

b) Gheijin

c) Sunru Ghin

d) Beijing


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5. Designer of the European Planned

City of Savannah in Georgia, USA:

a) Frederick Law Olmstead

b) Col. Frank Nicholson

c) Charles Fourier

d) James Oglethorpe


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6. The first city that signified the rise of

the church, with the church being anintegral part of its urban design:

a) Rome

b) Constantinople or Sienna

c) Madrid

d) Versailles


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7. The military towns of Spanish

settlements :

a) laws of the Indies

b) pueblo civic towns

c) presidio

d) missions religious towns


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8. The first noted urban planner because

of his design of the city of Miletus:

a) Vitruvius

Designer ofMiletus and Prieneb) Hippodamus

c) Damascus

d) Paleo


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9. The best representation of the

speculators town of the settlements

in early America:

a) Charleston

b) Williamsburg

c) Philadelphia

d) New York City

by William Penn


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10. Leader of the Reform Movements

during the Industrial Revolution:

Built New Lanarka) Robert Owens Mills, Manchester

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) James Oglethorpe

d) Soria Y Mata


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11. Author of Tomorrow: a Peaceful Path

to Social Reform and main proponent

of the Garden Cities:

a) Robert Owen

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) James Oglethorpe

d) Soria Y Mata


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12. The first garden city designed by

Raymund Unwin and Barry Parker:

a) Welwyn

b) Hampstead

c) Letcheworth

d) Windsor


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13. Designed the Garden City of Welwyn:

a) Unwin and Parker Letcheworth

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) Louis de Soisson

Proponent of the

d) Clarence Perry neighborhood unit ;with Clarence Stein


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14. World fair in Chicago in 1891, setting

off the City Beautiful Era:

a) the Columbian Exposition

b) the White City

c) World Cities Expo

d) City Beautiful Movement


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15. Designed the reconstruction of Paris

using the principles of the city beautiful

movement:

a) John Nash Londons parks

b) Daniel Burnham Chicago, Cleveland,Manila, Baguio

c) Charles Buckingham

d) Baron Hausmann


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16. Designed Brasilia, the new capital of

Brazil during the City Beautiful era:

a) Albert Meyer Chandigarh

b) Edward Lutyens New Delhi

c) Walter Griffin Canberra

d) Lucio Costa


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17. Frank Lloyd Wrights project proposal

that would allot one acre of land to

each American family:

a) Le Contemporaine

b) Unite D Habitation

c) Broadacres

d) Acreville


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18. Proposed the Linear City that would

serve as a satellite to the city of

Madrid:

a) Jose Marseilles

b) Diego San Andres

c) Soria Y Mata

d) Felipe Selecios


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19. Proposed the Arcology Alternative

or 3D city:

a) Soria Y Mata

b) Paolo Soleri

c) Frank Lloyd Wright

d) Kiyonori Kikutake


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20. Proposed the first Floating City as

an alternative to land reclamation:

a) Soria Y Mata

b) Paolo Soleri

c) Frank Lloyd Wright

d) Kiyonori Kikutake


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21. Believed that planning should first start

at the micro level and thus designed

the neighborhood unit:

a) Clarence Perry and Clarence Stein

b) Ebenezer Howard

c) Frank Lloyd Wright & Louis Sulliven

d) Louis Kahn


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22. The shape of urban cities formed by

two corridors of intense development

crossing the center:

a) radiocentric

b) rectilinear

c) articulated sheet

d) linear


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23. Acknowledged as the icon of middle

class suburbanization during the

1950s:

a) projects 1 to 8

b) Philam-life Homes

c) Forbes Park

d) Quezon City


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24. Largest in land area among Metro

Manilas 12 cities:

a) City of Manila 38.30 sq. km

b) Kalookan City

c) Quezon City 166.20 sq. km

d) Muntinlupa City


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25. Among Lynchs elements of the city,

these are defined as lateral references

that are not coordinate axes:

a) paths

b) edges

c) nodes

d) districts


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26. Among Lynchs elements of the city,

these are defined as intensive foci

from which the observer is traveling:

a) paths

b) edges

c) nodes

d) districts


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27. The third level of Ian Bentleys

responsive environments; important in

terms of physical form and activity

patterns:

a) permeability

b) legibility

c) robustness

d) richness


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28. According to Ian Bentley, responsive

environments that focus on details,

with a wide vocabulary of visual cues

possess:

a) legibility

b) variety

c) visual appropriateness

d) personalization


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29. Designed Seaside, which signified the

start of the New Urbanism movement:

a) Peter Katz

b) Peter Calthorpe

c) Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

d) David Sucher and Daniel Solomon


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30. According to Tonnies, what type of

community life is one in which impersonal,superficial & business-like relationships

prevail?

a) Rural

b) Gesellschaft

c) Damay

d) Gemeinschaft


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31. Determines current housing needs:

a) Housing to be replaced

b) All listed items

c) Housing for new family formation

d) Housing for special groups


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32.Type of urban ecological process in land

use planning patterning in cities orcommunities defined as the entrance

of a new population and / or facilities into

an occupied area

a) Succession

b) Concentration

c) Invasion

d) Decentralization


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33. Gesellschaft Community:

a) Transitory sort of secondary group

contacts prevail

b) Rural environment

c) Primary group contacts predominate

d) Intimate neighborly relationships

prevail


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34. Describes housing shortage or backlog:

a) Difference between no. of acceptable

housing & number of families

b) All listed items

c) Housing for new family formation

d) Housing produced minus existing

housing

35 I h i f b l i hi h


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35. In the increase of urban population, which

of the following factors indicates excess of

in-migration over out-migration?

a) Natural Increase

b) Concentration

c) Net Migration

d) Reclassification

36 F t i di ti N t Mi ti


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36. Factors indicating Net Migration:

a) Excess of births over deaths

b) Excess in young population

c) Excess of in-migration over

out-migration

d) Rural areas having achieved

urban status

37 U b d i t l th t ll


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37. Urban design control that allows

builders and developers more space

if they provide desirable features suchas plazas, arcades, and other open

spaces :

a) flexible zoning

b) incentive zoning

c) cluster zoning

d) land use planning

38 I t ti th t t l f t ffi


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38. Intersections that separate lanes of traffic

by use of islands

a) channelization

b) rotaries

c) clover leafs

d) diamonds

39 Pioneer of city center pedestrian


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39. Pioneer of city center pedestrian

shopping areas in America:

a) Patrick Abercrombie

b) Walter Griffin

c) Victor Gruen

d) John Nash

40 What major problem brought about the


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40. What major problem brought about the

discipline of city planning?

a) Physical chaos

b) Urban growth

c) Land value

d) Crime


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41. Basic subdivision design

a) Grid Iron

b) Radial on Grid iron

c) Curvilinear

d) Radial super blocks


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42. Local collector street

a) Pick up traffic from local residential

streets in one neighborhood

b) Circumventing neighborhoods

c) Major arteries & inter-neighborhoodstreets

d) Solely for residential area served


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43. Zoning law of the U.S.

a) 1916

b) 1945

c) 1900

d) 1930


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44. Gemeinschaft Community

a) Intimate neighborly relationships prevail

b) Impersonal/Superficial relationships prevail

c) Urban Environment

d) Business-like relationship predominate


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45. Residential density

a) Families per neighborhood

b) Families per dwelling unit

c) Families per square block

46. what part of basic data and planning


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46. what part of basic data and planning

studies in a comprehensive development

plan describes the physical setting of thecommunity or region?

a) economic base study

b) land use survey and inventory

c) man-made features

d) history and geography

47. Economist who developed the sector


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47. Economist who developed the sector

model of urban growth and

development:

a) E.W. Burgess Concentric zone

b) Homer Hoyt

c) Chauncey Harris Multiple nuclei

d) James Vance Urban realms

48. The urban model of growth and


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development that presents the

emergence of self-sufficient sectors:

a) concentric zone model

b) sector model

c) multiple nuclei model

d) urban realms model

49. Density control method that regulates


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the proportions between the built area

of the building and the lot area:

a) number of occupants per square meter

b) number of occupants per floor

c) floor area ratio

d) floor space index

50. a general term to describe the idea of


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consciously renewing the outworn

areas of towns and cities:

a) historic preservation

b) urban renewal

c) adaptive reuse

d) urban gentrification

51. a mixed use community with an


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average 670 meter distance of a

transit stop and commercial core area:

a) transit oriented development

b) traditional neighborhood development

c) planned unit development

d) new urbanism

52. a group of architects, planners, and


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urban designers formed to educate

citizens worldwide of the benefits ofnew urbanism:

a) the Council for New Urbanism

b) the Congress for New Urbanism

c) the New Urbanism Movement

d) the Association of New Urbanists

53. According to the theory of New


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Urbanism, neighborhoods must have

a discernible center within a fiveminute walk of all dwellings, and

equivalent to :

a) 200 to 300 meters

b) 300 to 500 meters

c) 600 to 700 meters

d) approximately 1 kilometer

54. Minimum width of sidewalks,


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according to New Urbanism principles:

a) 1.20 meters

b) 2.00 meters

c) 2.50 meters

d) 3.00 meters

55. Required study before developers


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are issued Environment Compliance

Certificates

a) E.I.A.

b) E.C.C.

c) E.I.S.

d) Building permit

56. Run down industrial area in San Jose,

C lif i d l d b P


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California redeveloped by Peter

Calthorpe:

a) Laguna West

b) Jackson-Taylor

c) Kentlands

d) Windsor

57. Architect and Urban Designer who

k d th d i f Sh h i


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worked on the design of Shanghai;

author of Designing Cities:

a) Edmund Bacon

b) Jane Jacobs

c) Camillo Sitte

d) Peter Wong

58. Rocks produced by crystallization from

li id


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a liquid:

a) igneous rocks

b) sedimentary rocks Igneous rocksreduced toparticles

c) metamorphosed rocks

Sedimentaryrocks pushed todeeper levels ofthe earth

d) none of the above

59 Which of the following indicates good


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59. Which of the following indicates good

site planning?

a) best orientation

b) all items listed

c) efficient maintenance

d) maximized land use /

space



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site planning?

a) maximum land use

b) cost efficient

c) all items listed

d) efficient circulation



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site planning?

a) best orientation

b) cost efficient

c) all items listed

d) controlled environmental hazards

62 Imaginary lines that join points of equal


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62. Imaginary lines that join points of equal

elevation on the surface of the land aboveor below a reference surface such as the

mean sea level.

a) topography

b) contours

c) elevation

d) slope

63. the study of the classification of types

and uses of soil for site analyses:


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and uses of soil for site analyses:

a) geology Natural science thatstudies the earth;

b) geomorphologyits composition,processes that

shaped its surface,and its history

c) physiography Study oftopographyincludinggeomorphologyd) hydrology

Study of surfaceand ground water

64. The allowable bearing capacity,

measured in psf of massive crystalline


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measured in psf, of massive crystalline

bedrock, e.g. granite and gneiss:

a) 20,000

b) 30,000

c) 80,000

d) 200,000

BEARING CAPACITY FOR ROCK AND SOIL MATERIALS

Class Material Allowable Bearing Value (psf)


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1 Massive crystalline bedrock, e.g. granite, gneiss 200,000

2 Metamorphosed rock, e.g. schist, slate 80,000

3 Sedimentary rocks, e.g. shale, sandstone 30,000

4 Well compacted gravels and sands 20,000

5 Compact gravel, sand/gravel mixtures 12,000

6 Loose gravel, compact coarse sand 8,000

7 Loose coarse sand; loose sand/gravel mixtures, compact fine

sand, wet coarse sand6,000

8 Loose fine sand, wet fine sand 4,000

9 Stiff clay (dry) 8,000

10 Medium-stiff clay 4,000

11 Soft clay 2,000

12 Fill, organic material, or silt (fixed by field tests)

Source: Code Manual, New York State Building Code Commission

Soil materials

Rock

65. The allowable bearing capacity,

measured in psf of stiff dry clay:


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measured in psf, of stiff dry clay:

a) 5,000

b) 8,000

c) 15,000

d) 25,000

66. The approximate size of one sand

particle:


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particle:

a) 0.50 mm

b) 0.75 mm

c) 1.00 mm

d) 1.25 mm

67. The rate of at which water penetrates

the soil surface (usually measured in


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the soil surface (usually measured in

cm or inches per hour):the rate at which

a) drainage water in a soil pitor pipe is taken

up by the soil(used mainly inwastewaterabsorption testsand measured ininches per hour)

b) infiltration

c) percolation

the rate at whichd) permeability water within thesoil movesthrough a given

volume ofmaterial (alsomeasured in cmor inches perhour)

68. The rate at which water within the soil

moves through a given volume of


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material (measured in cm or inchesper hour):

a) drainage

b) infiltration

c) percolation

d) permeability

69. Angle at which soil can be safely

inclined and beyond which it will fail:


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a) angle of incidence

b) angle of repose

c) right angle

d) 45 degree angle

70 Angle of slopes considered as gentle


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70. Angle of slopes considered as gentle

to mild slopes and moderately difficult:

a) 0 to 5%

b) 5 to 10%

c) 10 to 15%

d) 15 to 20%

71 The following are natural factors taken


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71. The following are natural factors taken

into account for site analysis, except for:

a) geology

b) geomorphology

c) history

d) hydrology

72. Angle of slopes considered gently

rolling and moderately buildable:


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a) 0 to 5%

b) 5 to 10%

0 5% Generally flat Highly buildable

5 10% Gently rolling Moderately buildable

10 15% Gentle to mild slopes Moderately difficult terrain15 20% Mild to steep slopes Difficult terrain

20% and over Harsh, steep slopes Unbuildable

c) 10 to 15%

d) 15 to 20%

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3 t e secto ode , ous g c osest to

Central Business District:

a) low income

b) middle class

c) high income

d) institutional

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