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= = = = = = = = = How does Caracas stand in terms of both, urban planning and architecture? =

These two professions have a lot of things in common and most peolpe tend to confuse them or think the job can be done by either urban planners or architects.
Urban planners use the tools of design to give shape to cities and organize buildings and spaces. In the same manner architects design to create spaces, and rightfully relating them.

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Both work towards building better places to live and improving lifestyles. Architects and planners need certain skills such as spatial abstraction, imagination and creativity. They work for the people to satisfy their social needs; however they don´t share the same purposes. Architecture is more personal or responds to particular individuals, while urban planning aswers to a broder public. =====

In that case architecture develops in a much smaller scale than urban design.
Architecture gives more importance to the way specific buildings function, unlike urban design that focuses more on the behavior of a whole city or town for its succesful development.

So already knowing this, how does Caracas stand in terms of both, urban planning and architecture?

Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, has around 4 million inhabitants. All living in an area of 433 km2

Urban planning and architecture both consist of giving the society a better lifestyle. But I think Caracas wasn´t planned for the amount of people that´s living in it. This is something you can prove everytime you go out and the highway and main streets can´t handle the volume of cars causing massive traffic. Maybe some decades ago this city was well planned, the problem is that Caracas is a valley and has no sorroundings to grow to.

In terms of architecture Caracas has some amazing buildings that really fulfill the public´s needs, but most of them are shadowed by the poorly designed things that surround them. media type="custom" key="8263480"