ENVI PLANNING 1-15

Environmental Planning

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

John Ratcliffe

Urban planning is "concerned with providing the right place at the right site at the right time" for the right people.

Algorithmic

Which is not a key feature of 'professional' planning process

It exports substantial quantities of processed products

As defined by PD 1517 and by National Statistics Office, 'urban' area has the following characteristics except one

If a barangay has more fishery output and shellcraft activities compared to farms, then it is considered urban

The most recent re-definition of 'urban' by NSCB (2003) does not include one of the following.

A charter or legal proclamation

A 'city' is a significantly-large urban area which has:

All of the choices

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

At least 200,000

Under RA7160 Sec 452, what is the minimum population requirement to approve a Highly Urbanized City?

Urbanization

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

Aims for mass production thru mechanization & automation

If 'pre-industrial society' was mainly agricultural, kinship-based, self-sufficient, and relatively parochial, 'industrial society' in contrast

Industrial society

Due to greater 'division of labor', there is more heterogeneity of population and classes of workers beginning with

Urban Sprawl

The expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, mono-functional 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.

Substantial wage differentials between urban labor and rural labor for the same level of skill, task, or occupation

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

tolerance and plurality

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:

To slow down rural-to-urban movement by means of migration control and population management

The following are the stated goals of 'urban development policy' (NUDHF) in the Philippines, except one: