Purposes+in+architecture+and+urban+planning

Architecture and Urban planning are two professions that preety much compliment each other in terms of their purposes and meaning. In one way, the purposes of architecture involve creating shelter for people, And to create settings that provide confidence and security for their daily activities. Urban planning represents the same structure of goals, but in a larger scale, As in designing public and private spaces not for a little group of people, but a whole community One of the reasons that justify this relationship between architecture and urban planning, is that everything that is developed in an architecture proyect, has to fit in a context made by the urban designer. A good practice is necessary in order to achieve an organized living system for a group of people, nowadays it seems that urban planning hasn’t been considered as a full fledged proffesion, so most of the urban spaces developed today are made with people with no training on the field. This is the case of caracas, our city, in wich we notice that the spaces dedicated to living and daily activities in general are preety reduced, and in a way, cluttered. This happens because of many reasons, overpopulation being one of them, but I think, the most important of all is that architectural proyects step over their context. People who invest in these proyects just build any type of structure in any type of setting without even considering, how it affects the living of those who interact around it.

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