Sample ALE Questions: Planning Part 3

sample board exam questions for ALE Day 1 AM session on Planning (Site Planning, Urban Design and Community Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning)


1. The type of street pattern wherein the site is divided into square or rectangular blocks.
2. What site planning strategies are conducive to minimizing energy costs and adverse impacts of development?
3. Patrick Geddes coined this term to mean the conglomeration of town aggregates, describing the waves of population to large cities followed by overcrowding and slum formation.
4. It shall refer to a town deliberately planned and built which provides, in addition to houses, employment, shopping, education, recreation, culture and other services normally associated with a city or town.
5. As a Designer-Planner what is your involvement in community participation?
6. What feature of a subdivision will make it more saleable?
7. What kind of development is MRT and LRT here in the Philippines?
8. The most important space found within the rules of the Leyes de las Indias.
9. A city with very high local concentrations of population in skyscrapers separated by very large areas of intervening open space at the ground level.
10. The links within the settlement and with other settlements.
11. Equated with the term townscape - the urban equivalent of landscape, comprising the visible forms of the built-up areas; defined as the spatial pattern or "arrangement" of individual elements within a city system.
12. The field on which unfolds both the building fabric and the public realm of the city.
13. These are not the dividing lines within the city but rather communal rooms and passages.
14. Data gathering of site conditions, include the following except:
15. The use of land which generates the maximum profit without negative consequences especially on the environment.
16. Inherent problems in the site may include the following except:
17. The result of dense concentration of people and residents, mixed blocks of different age and conditions.
18. What was the most important factor in designing settlement patterns during the Spanish Period in the Philippines? 19. A spatial development concept that suggests that by investing heavily in capital intensive industries in the largest urban centers, government in developing countries can stimulate economic growth that will spread outward to generate regional development the economies of scale found in the largest cities. 20. Area that is allowable for conversion to non-agricultural uses. 21. Known for his "Unite' de Habitation" and Radiant City. 22. Analysis of surface drainage pattern includes the following: i. Amount of drainage ii. Directions of drainage iii. Flood zones iv. Presence of aquifer 23. Suggested bed requirement for a medical center according to DOH. 24. Lines of a concentrated activity where ways and places are combined and where life and movement are intensified. 25. The methodological and controlled repair and strengthening of a structure to have it as close to its original state and to prevent further decay and deterioration. 26. Special Development Authorities are created to promote and regulate the development of identified critical areas or zones, specifically watershed areas, lakes, foreshore lands, river basins and contiguous social and economic areas. An example is: 27. A type of planning which emphasizes that the proper role of the planner is not to serve the general public interest but rather to serve the interests of the least fortunate or least well represented groups in society. 28. The process in which a piece of land, referred to as the parent tract, is subdivided into two or more parcels. 29. A wall that serves 2 dwelling units, known also as party wall. 30. This zone is for particular types of institutional establishments e.g., welfare homes, orphanages, home for the aged, rehabilitation and training centers, military camps/reservation/bases/training grounds, etc.

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1. General Principles of Site and Physical Planning a. Hierarchy of site and physical plans, definitions and classifications; b. History and scope of site and physical planning; and c. General planning process. 2. Urban and Regional Planning a. History of the urban and regional planning; b. Theories of urban and regional planning; c. Comprehensive land and water use planning (CLWUPs); d. Zoning ordinances (ZOs); and e. Urbanization and urban social relationships. 3. Housing and Human Settlements Planning a. Definitions and classifications; b. State housing policies, programs and agencies; c. State housing finance, production and practices; 4. The Art and Science of Site and Physical Planning a. Map and plan typology, identification and reading/ appreciation; b. Site appreciation, analyses and programming; c. Primary considerations in site and physical planning e.g. physical, aesthetic, ecologi¬cal, socio-psychological, management, maintenance, etc.; d. Subdivision Planning, Deed of Restriction and Development Guidelines; e. Master Development Planning (MDP); and f. Site Development Planning (SDP) for areas immediately surrounding buildings/ structures.

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