1st Semester S.Y.

2018-2019

Technological Institute of the Philippines - Manila

ACC Reviewer - Planning (Urban Planning)

CLUP • Comprehensive Land Use Plan

• A 10 year planning document prepared by local government units to rationalise the allocation and proper
use of land resources
• Serve as basis for the preparation and formulation of the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) and
the Local Development Plan (LDIP) of the LGUs.
ZONING ORDINANCE • It is a written regulation and law that defines how property in specific geographic zones can be used.
• Mechanism of implementing Comprehensive Land Use Plan
• the legal document that enforces specific and detailed rules and regulations regarding land uses, and the
systems, procedures and incentives and/or sanctions for its implementation.
ZONING MAP • It is a duly authenticated map defining the divisions of different planned land uses and regulations of land
in to zones in a City/Municipality. It is the spatial translation of the regulations to efficiently carry out the
provisions of the Zoning Ordinance.
POLICY • It refers to a statement indicating specific. guidelines, methods, procedures, rules and forms that will guide
all development activities.
THREE EVILS OF • POVERTY
DEVELOPMENT • INEQUALITY
• UNEMPLOYMENT
NEDA • National Economic and Development Authority
• In 1972 through PD 1, this government agency was created to replace the National Economic Committee
(NEC). It subdivided the country into 11 administrative regions with as regional center or capital
designated and a Regional Development Council.
HLURB • Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board
• Providing for the preparation and implementation of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of local
government units pursuant to the Local Government Code of 1991 and other pertinent laws.
NHA • National Housing Authority
• It shall provide technical and other forms of assistance in the implementation of their respective urban
development and housing programs with the objective of augmenting and enhancing local government
capabilities in the provision of housing benefits to their constituents
HUDCC • Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council
• shall, through the key housing agencies, provide local government units with necessary support.
• Overseas all the housing related agencies.
LAWS OF THE INDIES • In 1573 during the Spanish colonial times, these laws provided guidelines for site selection; layout and
dimensions of squares, streets and other land uses, recreation/ open space, cultivation and pasture lands,
sites for garbage-producing uses; and the main phases of planning and construction.
• The “Laws of the Indies” were decreed by King Philip II in 1573.
• The laws guided Spanish colonists on how to create and expand towns in Spanish territories in America
and in the Philippines.
RA 333 • Designated Quezon City as capital of the Philippines and master planning it by the Capital City Planning
Commission.
CONSTITUTIONAL HILL • Three seats of government were to form a triangle at the centre of the complex.

CITY BEAUTIFUL • A plan for Q.C. which reflected the aspirations of an emerging nation and the visions of a passionate
leader.

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Technological Institute of the Philippines - Manila

ACC Reviewer - Planning (Urban Planning)

EKISTICS UNITS • Minor shells or elementary units - Man(Anthropos), room, house;

• Micro-settlements - units smaller than, or as small as, the traditional town where people used, do & still
do achieve interconnection by walking (housegroup, small neighbourhood);
• Meso-settlements - between traditional town & conurbation within which one can commute daily (small
polis, polis, small metropolis, small eperopolis, eperopolis); and
• Macro-settlements - whose largest possible expression is the Ecumenopolis
SANTA CRUZ • The main commercial district with swirl of shops, movie houses and restaurants during the American
Colonial Period.
QUIAPO • The illustrate territory; the enclave of the rich and powerful. Also the manifestation of folk religiosity.
SAN NICOLAS • Also a commercial town built by the Spanish with streets of “specialized” categories.
BINONDO • The trading port developed by the Chinese and arbas
MANILA • The first primate city in Southeast Asia
EKISTICS • It is the science of human settlement to understand the concepts and the means of implementing facts,
concepts and ideas related to human settlement.
EKISTIC ELEMENTS • NETWORKS
 • SOCIETY

Water Supply System
 Population composition and density

Power Supply System
 Social Stratification

Transportation System
 Cultural Patterns

Communication Systems
 Economic Development

Sewerage and Drainage
 Education

Physical Layout Health and Welfare

• NATURE
 Law and Administration
Geologic Resources
 • SHELLS

Topographic Resources
 Housing

Soil Resources
 Community Services

Water Resources
 Shopping Centers and Markets

Plant Life
 Recreational Facilities

Animal Life
 Civic Centers

Climate Industry

• ANTHROPOS
 Transportation Centers
Biological needs

Sensation and Perceptions

Emotional Needs

Moral Values
NATIONAL URBAN • EO 98, 1946
PLANNING • Agency mandated to rebuild the settlements ruined by war and prepared the general development plans
CONNISSION and formalization of zoning ordinances and subdivision regulations.
PHILIPPINE HOMESITE • Mandated for the acquisition, construction and management of low-cost housing projects, slum clearances
AND HOUSING and relocation.
CORPORATION • precursor of the NHA
• Built homes for the masses (“the projects”, I.e. Project 4, Project 6, etc.)

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Technological Institute of the Philippines - Manila

ACC Reviewer - Planning (Urban Planning)

HEXAGON • The ideal shape to maximize served areas in central place

theory.

TWO BASIC 1) threshold--the minimum market needed to bring a firm or city

CONCEPTS OF selling goods and services into existence and to keep it in
CENTRAL PLACE business
THEORY 2) range--the average maximum distance people will travel to
purchase goods and services
Normally, the threshold is found within the range, as the diagram
shows.

JOHANN VON • concluded that the cultivation of a crop is only worthwhile

HEINRICH THUNEN within certain distances from the city: beyond that, either the
cost of the land becomes too high, with increasing distances
transport costs also increase, or, if there is another product
having greater yield or lower transport costs
• Location theory

GROWTH POLE • The core idea of this theory is that economic development, or
THEORY growth, is not uniform across an entire region, but instead
takes place around a specific pole.

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Technological Institute of the Philippines - Manila

ACC Reviewer - Planning (Urban Planning)

CONCENTRIC ZONE • Assumes an unchanging landscape

THEORY • Does not work with modern cities

SECTOR MODEL • Cities would tend to grow in wedge-shaped patterns or

sectors, emanating from CBD and entered on major
transportation routes
• Conceptualized by Homer Hoyt

LAND • By LGU
RECLASSIFICATION • It refers to the act of specifying how agricultural lands shall be utilized for non-agricultural uses such as
residential, industrial, and commercial, as embodied in the land use plan, subject to the requirements and
procedure for land use conversion, undertaken by a Local Government Unit in accordance with the Local
Government Code.
LAND SWAPPING • refers to the process of land acquisition by exchanging land for another piece of land of equal value, for
shares of stock in a government or quasi-government corporation whose book value is of equal value to
the land being exchanged, for the purpose of planned and rational development and provision for
socialized housing where land values are determined based on land classification.
SOCIALIZED HOUSING • It refers to housing programs and projects covering houses and lots or home lots only undertaken by the
Government or the private sector for the underprivileged and homeless citizens which shall include sites
and services development, long- term financing, liberalized terms on interest payments, and such other
benefits.

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