EnP Sample Review Questions 2016

Basic Concepts & History of Planning in the Philippines

1. Presidential Decree 1308 Sec. 2a defines it as referring to ‘all activities concerned with the management and
development of land, as well as the preservation, conservation and management of the human environment”.
a. Urban Planning c. Environmental Management
b. Human Ecology d. Environmental Planning

2. Which is not a key feature of ‘professional’ planning process?

3. As defined by PD 1517 and by National Statistics Office, ‘urban’ area has the following characteristics except
one:
a. it exports substantial quantities of processed products
b. core district’s density is at least 500 per square kilometer
c. overall density of at least 1000 persons per square kilometer in its entirety
d. exhibits a street pattern

4. The most recent re-definition of ‘urban’ by NSCB (2003) does not include one of the following:
a. If a barangay has more fishery output and shellcraft activities compared to farms, then it is considered
urban;
b. If a barangay has a population size of 5,000 or more, then it is considered urban;
c. If a barangay has at least one establishment with 100 employees or more, then it is considered urban;
d. If a barangay has 5 or more establishments with a minimum of 10 employees, and 5 or more facilities within
the two-kilometer radius from the barangay hall, then it is considered urban.

5. A ‘city’ is a significantly-large urban area which has:

6. In a November 2008 ruling of the Supreme Court upholding RA 9009’s statement of Sec. 450 of RA 7160 LGC,
the statutory requirements for an LGU’s elevation to cityhood are
a. contiguous territory of at least 100 km2 except for island/group of islands
b. minimum annual income of P100 million based on 1991 constant prices
c. population of at least 150,000
d. all of the above

7. Under RA 7160 LGC Sec 452, what is the minimum population requirement to approve a Highly Urbanized City?
a. at least 200,0000 b. at least 500,000 c. at least 1 million d. at least 10 million

8. This pertains to the process wherein large numbers of people, driven by demographic factors, live together in
important locations – a process that is always accompanied by economic agglomeration, spatial alteration and
socio-cultural change.
a. Industrialization b. Urbanization c. Social Transformation d. Modernization

9. This refers to low-density urban use of land expanded faster than population growth requires amorphic manner
at the margins of existing urban centers. Over time, more and more houses and urban centers that would require
more energy use per person and more government resources to provide the area for extensions of roads and
utilities.
a. Decentralization b. Dispersion c. Exurbanization d. Sprawl

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10. The following are stated goals of ‘urban development policy’ (NUDHF) in the Philippines, except one:
a. To achieve a more balanced urban-rural interdependence
b. To slow down rural-to-urban movement by means of migration control and population management
c. To optimally utilize land and resources to meet the requirements of housing and urban development
d. To undertake a comprehensive and continuing program of urban development which will make available
housing and services to affordable cost

11. Related to Thomas Malthus’ concept of ‘k’ as the population size constrained by whatever resource is in shortest
supply, this principle refers to “the maximum population of a given species that can be supported indefinitely in
defined habitat without causing negative impacts that permanently impair the productivity of that same habitat”.
a. limits to growth b. tipping point c. range and threshold d. carrying capacity

12. In general, this refers to the characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level
indefinitely, in particular, it refers to the potential longevity of ecological systems to support humankind and other
species.
a. Resilience b. Endurance c. Sustainability d. Perpetuity e. Durability

13. Which basic principle of ‘Sustainable Development’ means responsibility and accountability to future
populations?
a. Common Heritage of Humankind c. Caring Capacity
b. Inter-generational Equity d. Parity of Compeers

14. This type of planning has also been called ‘synoptic’, ‘static’, ‘normative’ and ‘Utopian’, because it assumes a
priori that professional planners have the intelligence, noble intentions, and exercise to synthesize extensive
data, analyze a relatively predictable world, and decide rightly on crucial questions of broader public interest.
a. equity or activist or advocacy planning
b. Strategic Planning
c. traditional planning or command planning or imperative planning
d. rational-comprehensive planning

15. The concept of “input – throughput – output – feedback” comes from what school of planning?
a. Communicative Planning c. Incremental Planning
b. Liberal Pluralistic Planning d. Systems Theory Planning

16. The main contribution of Nobert Weiner’s ‘Cybernitics’ to the Systems Theory of planning is the principle that
planning should be –
a. cyclical, iterative, and self-correcting c. wide-ranging and exhaustive
b. free-wheeling and open-minded d. rigorous, exact, and mathematical

17. Under the Systems Theory of Planning by George Chadwick and Alan Wilson, under which stage do policy-
makers or decision-makers make a firm resolve to pursue course of action?
a. System Description c. System Projection e. System Control
b. System Modeling d. System Synthesis

18. ‘Allocative’ or ‘regulatory’ or ‘policy planning’ in the tradition of Herbert Gans and TJ Kent is concerned with
solving chronic problems of society by allocating resources efficiently and enacting laws, rules and standards. It
is therefore closest to which planning approach?
a. Rational-comprehensive planning c. strategic planning
b. Traditional or command planning d. communicative planning

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19. Which principle of Strategic Planning rallies the organization and unifies its members around a common
purpose?
a. “solve major issues at a macro level”
b. “avoid excessive inward and short-term thinking”
c. “be visionary to convey a desired end-state but be flexible enough to allow and to accommodate changes”
d. “engage stakeholders to pull together behind a single gameplan for execution”
e. “establish priorities on what will be accomplished in the future”
f. “communicate to everyone what is most important”

20. In the “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats” tool as popularized by exponents of Strategic Planning,
the elements, aspects or characteristics that need to be reinforced, are enumerated under which quadrant?
a. ‘S’ b. ‘W’ c. ‘O’ d. ‘T’

21. Which is a significant accomplishment of “Advocacy Planning” movement as fathered by Paul Davidoff (1965)?
a. Single women with children were assisted to find employment.
b. Social Planning was moved from ‘backroom negotiations’ into the open public forum.
c. Documentation of long-lasting environmental changes was intensified.
d. Affirmative action and social amelioration were mainstreamed into national policy.
e. Businesses were compelled to draw their employees from the ranks of the poor.

22. A member of the advocacy/activist/equity school of planning, this planner wrote the classic “Eight Rungs the
Ladder of Citizen Participation” which describes the varying degrees of people’s involvement in policies, plans,
and programs.
a. Ralph Nader b. Susan S. Fainstein c. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr e. Sherry Arnstein

23. Of the Eight-Rungs the Ladder of Citizen Participation (1969), which ‘steps’ would require the planner to perform
‘facilitation’ role rather than ‘advice’, ‘direction’ or ‘manipulation’?
a. counseling; therapy c. informing
b. consultation; placation d. partnership; delegated power; citizen control

24. “Make no little plans. They have no magic and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim
high in hope and work, remembering that noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die …”
a. Leone Battista Alberti c. Baron Georges Eugenes Hausmann
b. Daniel H. Burnham d. Pierre Charles L’Enfant

25. If ‘Earth Hour’ is observed on the last Saturday of March, ‘Earth Day USA’ is celebrated annually on April 22,
‘World Town Planning Day’ falls on November 8, ‘World Environment Day’ is marked on the 5th day of the month
of
a. May b. June c. September d. October

26. If ‘World Heritage Day’ is marked each year on April 18, ‘World Biodiversity Day’ is observed on May 22, ‘World
Ocean Day’ on June 8, ‘World Indigenous Peoples Day’ on August 9. ‘World Animal Day’ on October 4, and
World Food Day’ on October 16, when is ‘World Water Day’ celebrated?
a. January 13 b. March 22 c. June 24 d. October 31

27. Based on his landmark book, “Design with Nature”, ‘map overlay’ to identify ‘ecological constraints’ was a tool
devised in 1967 by the first modern environmental planner.
a. Ian L. McHarg b. Konstantinos Doxiadis c. Francis Stuart Chapin Jr d. Emma Bombeck

28. This started as a US federal program in 1949 which aimed to rehabilitate the outworm or decaying sections of
nay town by extending fund assistance to LGUs to undertake improvements in streetscapes, parks, greenways,

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housing, community centers, etc. based on the anticipation that future tax revenues from real estate will pay the
present costs.
a. Land re-adjustment b. urban restructuring c. infill and densification d. urban renewal

29. An approach in urban planning that puts premium on people and nature by building upon the historic city or
traditional neighborhood in such a way that workplaces, shops and homes would be within walking distance of
each other.
a. Neo-Populism b. Eco-village c. New Urbanism d. Dynapolis e. Transit-Oriented Development

30. All of the following schemes are associated with ‘New Urbanism’ except:
a. Mixed Use Zoning b. Neo-Traditional Design c. Exclusionary Zoning d. Pedestrianization

31. Because pre-Spanish aboriginal communities in the Philippines were relatively small and based on kinship
relations, the most common practice of land tenure in pre-colonial society, wherein one would merely enjoy the
‘fruits’ of land, was called
a. primitive communism b. Islamic feudalism c. usufruct d. tenancy e. swidden slash-and-burn

32. This was the Spanish spatial strategy of forming dense settlements from scattered dwellings for purposes of
greater military defense and political control – literally bringing together dispersed population within hearing
distance of church bells – which policy was applied on most Spanish colonies from 16th to 18th centuries.
a. El Alcante del Campanario b. Presidio y Fortaleza c. Reduccion d. Evangelization

33. Under the plaza complex pattern described in ‘Leyes de las Indias’ (1573), what would be located next to each
other around a Greco-Romanian quadrangle of a Spanish colonial settlement?
a. Garden, fountains, monuments, statues, gallery and promenade
b. Governor’s mansion, bishop’s palace, general’s manor, haciendero’s villa, military garrison
c. Church, town hall, school, public market
d. Houses of peninsulares, insulares, creoles, mestizos, principales and ilustrados

34. Through Presidential Letter of Instruction 367 in 1950 combining National Urban Planning Commission, Real
Property Board and Capital City Planning Commission, the government created this first physical planning body.
a. National Planning Commission c. National Environmental Protection Agency
b. National Disaster Coordinating Council d. Human Settlements Regulatory Commission

35. In 1964, Republic Act 4341 established this center to create a pool of professional planners in the Philippines.
a. Local Government Academy c. Institute of Planning
b. Development Academy of the Philippines d. UPLB Institute of Environmental Science & Mgt.

36. Presidential Decree No. 01 Integrated Reorganization Plan on September 24, 1972 increased the number of
Philippine regions to 11, regionalized key ministries and line departments, and created a major planning agency
of government which is known today as
a. Philippine Economic Zone Authority c. Congressional Planning and Budget Office
b. National Land Use Committee d. National Economic and Development Authority

37. In 2015, how many administrative regions does the Philippines have?
a. 15 b. 16 c. 17 d. 18

38. Under RA 7160 LGC Sec. 25, which of the following, is not among the types of cities in the Philippines.
a. Highly Urbanized Cities b. Independent Cities c. Mega Cities d. Component Cities

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39. In 2011, which Philippine City had the biggest population, biggest gross income, highest net income and biggest
IRA?
a. City of Manila b. Makati City c. Quezon City d. Cebu City

40. This 1997 document is the Philippines’ official response to 1992 UNCED ‘Earth Summit’ and contains a policy
framework that redefines development as the ‘drawing out of full human potential’ according to the ‘appropriate
productivity’ of nature, rather than optimal or maximum exploitation of natural resources to achieve GDP growth.
a. Philippine Strategy for Sustainable Development c. Strategic National Action Program
b. Philippine Covenant on Total Human Development d. Philippine Agenda 21