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REVIEW QUESTIONAIRE
Part I
Answer the following on the blank space provided before the number. Read
each question carefully.
_____1. Which of the following would probably not be considered an element of a city’s
image?
a. A group of houses c. A freeway
b. A neighborhood bar d. A rice paddies
_____2. Social Contact and interaction in a pavilion would be promoted most by which of
the following design decision?
a. Making the dimensions of the pavilion small enough so the anticipated
number of users would cross into each other’s personal distance,
b. Designing benches around the support columns so people would have a
place to sit and talk
c. Organizing the cooking and servicing area distinct from the dining area and
entrance
d. Providing an informal variety of spaces of different sizes, locations and uses.
_____3. A speculative office building probably would not be built if the developer
discovered that:
a. All of the catchments area was not served by arterial street.
b. The site consisted of mostly sandy soil with a 6-foot top layer of expansive
clay
c. The vacancy rate of office space in the city was three times the national
average
d. The neighborhood community objected to the sight of the parking lots.
_____4. Which of the following causes the foundation problems:
a. Extensive underground rock formations just below the surface
b. A 5-foot water table
c. Expansive clay and organic soil
d. All of the above
_____5. In planning a new building, an architect would have to look at regulations other
than the zoning ordinance to find a requirement for which of the following:
a. The width of the loading berth c. The required size of utility
easement
b. Minimum lot size d. Parking area size
c. Permissible roof covering
_____6. Which of the following statement is incorrect?
a. A 1 ½ % slope is suitable for rough parking
b. Landscaped areas near buildings should have a 2% slope
c. A safe sidewalk would slope 2 ½ %.
d. Roads in northern climates can safely have up to 12% grade.
_____7. Which of the following would result to the best site circulation?
a. Planning the service entry drive separated from the automobile entry and
drive
b. Making parking areas oversize to accommodate pedestrian circulation
c. Designing all two-way roads at least 24-feet wide
d. Limiting parking area traffic to a single entrance away from the pedestrian
walks
e. Laying out walks parallel to parking areas.
_____8. A property can best be described with which of the following?
a. Metes and bounds c. Reference to a section and township
b. Location within a subdivision d. All of the above
_____9. If land is limited, which of the following is the best way to plan parking lots?
a. A two-way circulation with 90-degree parking on both sides of the drive
b. 30-degree parking on both sides of a one-way loop system
c. Combining service circulation with parking at a45-degree angle
d. 90-degree parking on one side of a one-way circulation drive.
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_____11. The owner of the lots shown below wants to develop a building with the
maximum allowable gross area. If the FAR is 2.0 and the owner builds to the
setback lines, how high will the building be?
300 feet
30’ rear setback
Matching type:
_____13. Settlements during the pyramid time a. Agora
_____14. Greek architect and planner b. Hanging garden
_____15. Greek concept of market place c. Fortifications
_____16. Earliest city of Babylon empire d. Gridiron
_____17. The eternal city that introduced urban planning e. Necropolis
_____18. Also called the street grid f. Automobiles
_____19. Made possible the introduction suburbs g. Hippocampus
_____20. Protects Roman cities to canons h. Housing
_____21. Industrial period introduced the lack of this i. Rome
urban component
_____22. Center of most Roman cities j. Forum (political)
Multiple Choice
_____23. Which of the following is a long-term plan that is required of the entire local
government unit in the Philippines?
a. Urban plan c. Social plan
b. Comprehensive development plan d. Site plan
_____24. Which of the following best describe the theory of the relationship of Downtown
Davao and Calinan Poblacion?
a. Concentric zone c. Sector
b. Multiple-nuclei theory d. Central place theory
_____25. What is the land classification or land use of the Puan Area based on the
approved Zoning Ordinance of Davao City?
a. Residential c. Protected-water resource
b. Commercial d. Industrial
_____26. Which of the following best describe the setback from a water line?
_____57. It is a more permanent whose members share the goal or at least pretend to do
so as long as the benefits of membership commands their loyalty. Benefits may
be material: money in form of salaries, commissions or others: psychological
benefits: status and prestige, friendship or identification with norms of ideology.
a. Government
b. Community
c. Organization
d. Local Government
_____79. The curricula of schools of planning were revised to include economics, other
social sciences, and articulated decision-making structures. Planning for land-
use, schools, recreation, traffic, and transit were treated as questions of
statistical probability rather than as sets of issues that could be resolved through
design. Professional planners developed practices in historic preservation,
community advocacy, and environmental protection.
_____80. The modern practice of urban design began in the 1960s as a reaction against
CIAM planning concepts and the dominance of urban planning by engineering
considerations. Urban designers reshaped government regulations and public
_____92. Site Design entails the whole range of concerns relating to the development, or
redevelopment, of a piece of ground for some planned purposes. Common
purpose is the construction of a building on the ground of a site; thus,
building/site relations and interactions to direct physical connections and sharing
of the site space are experienced or perceived.
_____93. Site drainage, as it affects both the site and the building, will be strongly
defined. It is best to direct surface drainage away from the building edges,
especially when there are basement spaces. Controlled drainage on a tight
site or one with problem site edges may present a different situation, and
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