Housing - Module 1-2

Prelims Reviewer

Housing (Dictionary Definition)

A building that serves as living quarters for one or a few families

Housing (Architecture/Geography Definition)

Refers to physical and spiritual aspects related to real geography and then it is necessary to consider terms such as territory, land, location, place, built space, area, material elements, etc.

Housing (Urban Space Definition)

Refers to the meanings joints that various housing spaces have in the social life, for different people and different interaction situations.

Human Settlement

Physical components of shelter and infrastructure ; Services to which the physical elements provide support

Environmental Factors

Vernacular Architecture are focused on _________

Special Skills

According to Amos Rapoport: Main difference between primitive and pre-industrial buildings is the incorporation or use of _______

Individuality

Pre-Industrial vernacular often permit much more ____ and differentiation that in primitive building

4 Factors of the Traditional House Built Form

1. Climates and Environment

2. Materials and Technology

3. Religion

4. Economic Ways of Life

True

True or False: Climate is important in creation of built form, but cultural aspects are arguably more important

3 Facets of Housing

Physical Structure, Social, Cultural

Physical ; Social

Housing has multiple functions as both a _______ and _____ system - and which seeks to enhance and harmonize the environmental, social, cultural and economic dimensions of housing sustainability."

Physical structure

Housing as ____________: Residential buildings/shelters their design, material qualities, their arrangement in space, and their ecological interactions with the physical environment

Social structure

Housing as ____________: residence-based activities, their character, social qualities, and their socio-economic interactions in space with the immediate communities and wider society.

Cultural Attribute

Housing as _____________: Evidenced in the production of the housing and settlements, including the location, layout, types of spaces created, materials chose, methods of construction, and the decoration of dwellings, as well as ceremonies concerning building

Urbanization

The spatial concentration of people

Economic Activity

_________is arguably the most important social transformation in the history of civilization since man changed from being a nomadic hunter-gatherer and adopted a settled, subsistence agricultural way of life.

Cities

_________ are the foundation of modern civilization ; they are the engine room of economic growth and the centers of culture, entertainment, innovation, education, knowledge and political power

True

True or False: Housing shortages are not present at high-income levels in South Asia, but are a concern among middle and low-income groups

De-commodification

Delivering public housing as commodified asset goods has helped to resist potential _____________ that would threaten to extend the autonomy of workers and a sense of social rights to public goods.

Increased demand for urban housing

Result of rapid population growth, increased urbanization, high income inequality, and displacement of people by natural disasters and conflict.

Population Ageing

is threating to destablize the balance between working and retired populations that sustained these economies during the high growth era.

Socioeconomic stresses

Higher propensity for unemployment that only affects public resources, but also erodes the capacity of households to sustain stable life-course and owner-occupied housing careers.

Japan, Korea, Taiwan

These countries have underwent social policy transformations after the 1997 financial crisis.

Democratic tensions have shaped approaches to and support of developmentalism

Hong Kong & Singapore

Small city states with little undeveloped land and agricultural sectors that account for 0.01 percent or less of their GDP

China

Resembles in some ways the developmental startes but with much larger area and population

True

True or False: China went 2 decades of intensive housing privatization till 2010

True

True or False: Different furrow in terms of accelerated urban growth which may be attributed to China being led by a communist party and its market oriented growth since 1978

True

True or False: Government involvement in housing has the following effects:

• Increased urbanization rates

• GDP from construction industry

• Sharp increases in land and house prices

• Commodified Housing

• Development of consumption oriented, middle class societies made up of a welfare self reliant household with access to family owned housing assets.

True

True or False: Barter is the basic economic activity during Pre-Colonial Period in Philippine Settlements

True

True or False: Galleon Trade at Manila was the major economic activity during Spanish Colonial Period in the Philippines

Laws of the Indies

Introduced the Plaza Complex, and the corresponding plan that corresponds to the social classes of the town’s people.

Mestizos, Principalia

Binondo, Ermita, Quiapo & Trazo are for the _______ & ______

True

True or False: Tondo is for the lower class during Spanish Colonial Period

Treaty of Paris in 1898

Ended the Spanish Colonization

True

True or False: Land ownership shifted from Church and Crown to private individuals during American Colonial Period

Bungalows

American housing styles

American Colonial Period

Period where Indigenous communities lost ownership of their ancestral lands to give way to military bases and commercial agriculture

Payne-Aldridge Act of 1909 & Underwood & Simmons Act of 1913

Free trade with the US without tariffs

True

True or False: Free trade during American Colonial Period led to increased labor demand and higher wages. However the benefits were mostly for landowners and exporters.

Philippine National Bank

____________ was established during American Colonial Period, to provide low-interest loans to Filipino farmers and businesses but had limited impact in rural housing

R-1 Occupancy

Low Density Residential Zone

R-2 Occupancy

Medium Density Residential Zone

R-3 Occupancy

High Density Residential Zone

R-4 Occupancy

Townhouses

R-5 Occupancy

Very High Density Residential Zone

3.9 million

The housing backlog in the Philippines is ______ households

True

True or False: The highest demand of housing units would come from the economic housing segment, followed by socialized housing, and low-cost housing.

Socialized Housing

Projects costing P450,000 or below

Economic Housing

Projects costing from P450,000 to P1.7 million

Subdivision and Housing Developers Association

SHDA stands for

Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Associations

CREBA stands for

National Real Estate Association of the Philippines

NREA stands for

Organization of Socialized Housing Developers of the Philippines

OSHDP stands for

True

True or False: Housing is a right, not a commodity

Community can be defined as including three elements namely: _____, ______, ______

1. Territory or Place

2. Social Organizations or Institutions

3. Social Interaction

Jane Jacobs

Rejects the notions that neighborhoods have identifiable geographic dimensions and that the ideal neighborhood is one that is a cozy, Inward-tuned and self sufficient urban village.

Neighborhood

Is place based or is associated with a specific geography

Community

Often associated with people living their lives in some common or shared way.

True

True or False: A key measure of the strength of a community is not the quality of street maintenance or the aesthetics of buildings but rather the extent to which community members interact with each other.