Hidden EP Quiz No.01
The Hidden Ep is a music album by Secluded. If you are a fan of the techno genre of music, then you must be familiar with this album. Take up the challenge on the album and see how that goes.
- 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
- B.
Human Ecology
- C.
Environmental Management
- D.
Environmental Planning
- 2.Urban planning is "concerned with providing the right place at the right site at the right time" for the right people.
- A.
John Ratcliffe
- B.
Lewis Keeble
- C.
Brian Mcloughlin
- D.
George Chadwick
- E.
Alan Wilson
- 3.Which is not a key feature of 'professional' planning process?
- A.
Proactive
- B.
Problem-solving
- C.
Algorithmic
- D.
Futuristic
- E.
People-driven
- 4.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
- 5.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 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
- 6.A 'city' is a significantly-large urban area which has:
- A.
A cluster of skyscrapers
- B.
A charter or legal proclamation
- C.
A rectilinear or orthogonal street design
- D.
A seaport or an airport
- 7.In a November 2008 ruling of the Supreme Court upholding RA 9009's amendment of Sec. 450 of RA 7160 LGC, the statutory requirements for an LGU's elevation to citihood 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 choices
- 8.Under RA7160 Sec 452, what is the minimum population requirement to approve a Highly Urbanized City?
- A.
At least 200,000
- B.
At least 500,000
- C.
At least 1 million
- D.
At least 10 million
- 9.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
- 10.If 'pre-industrial society' was mainly agricultural, kinship-based, self-sufficient, and relatively parochial, 'industrial society' in contrast
- A.
Minimizes farming to channel capital into factories
- B.
Prioritizes mining of minerals and precious stones
- C.
Aims for mass production thru mechanization & automation
- D.
Relies on the output of white-collar professionals
- 11.Due to greater 'division of labor', there is more heterogeneity of population and classes of workers beginning with
- A.
Primitive subsistence society
- B.
Pre-industrial society
- C.
Industrial society
- D.
Post-industrial society
- 12.The expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this development.
- A.
Decentralization
- B.
Dispersion
- C.
Exurbanization
- D.
Urban Sprawl
- 13.In Michael P. Todaro's Labor Migration Model of Urbanization (1976), the central pull factor or main attraction of Third World cities to rural migrants even when these cities are unprepared to accept migration, is
- A.
"bright lights effect" or lure of city life and neon-lit entertainment
- B.
Possible benefits derived from proximity to seat of power and prestige of central city address
- C.
Abundance and plenitude in cities versus hunger and famine due to insurgency wars in the countryside
- D.
Substantial wage differentials between urban labor and rural labor for the same level of skill, task, or occupation
- 14.According to Dr. Francis Stuart Chapin Jr in the first comprehensive textbook on urban planning ever written ( 1965 ), the explicit goals of urban planning are the following, except one:
- A.
Health & safety
- B.
Convenience & amenity
- C.
tolerance & plurality
- D.
Efficiency & economy
- 15.The following are the 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 at affordable cost
- 16.According to Dr Garrett Hardin, in an open access regime without defined property rights, individuals enjoy free unlimited access to natural resources and right to use without exclusion; each individual is motivated to maximize his or her own benefit from exploiting the resource. When no individual has adequate incentive to conserve the public resource, the resource will likely become overused and overexploited.
- A.
The Stewardship of Nature
- B.
Communitarian Paradox
- C.
Fencesitter's Dilemma
- D.
Tragedy of the Commons
- 17.Related to Thomas Malthus' concept of 'k' as the population size constrained by whatever resource is in silo rt est supply, this principle refers to "the maximum population of a given species that can be supported indefinitely in a 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
- 18.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
- 19.Which basic principle of 'Sustainable Development' means responsibility and accountability to future populations?
- A.
Common Heritage of Humankind
- B.
Lnter-generational Equity
- C.
Caring Capacity
- D.
Parity 0f Compeers
- 20.This type of planning has also been called 'synoptic,' 'static', 'normative,' and 'Utopian', because it assumes a prior that professional planners have the intellige􀀇nce, noble in􀀈tentions. and expertise 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
- 21.The concepts of "input-throughput--output-feedback" comes from what school of planning?
- A.
Communicative Planning
- B.
Liberal Pluralistic Planning
- C.
Incremental Planning
- D.
Systems Theory of Planning
- 22.The main contribution of Norbert Weiner's 'Cybernetics' to the Systems Theory of planning is the principle that planning should be -
- A.
Cyclical, iterative, and self-correcting
- B.
Free-wheeling and open-ended
- C.
Wide-ranging and exhaustive
- D.
Rigorous, exact, and mathematical
- 23.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 a specific course of action?
- A.
System Description
- B.
System Modeling
- C.
System Projection
- D.
System Synthesis
- E.
System Control
- 24.'Allocative' or 'regulatory' or 'policy planning' in the tradition of Herbert Gans and T J Kent is concerned with solving chronic problems of society by allocating resources efficiently and enacting laws, rules and standards. I! is therefore closest to which planning approach?
- A.
Rational-comprehensive
- B.
traditional or command planning
- C.
Strategic planning
- D.
Communicative planning
- 25.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
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