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Before Urban Design was considered a career (more than 25 years ago), Architecture had already forged their bases within society. One of Architecture purposes is to be a shelter for people (to protect them from weather, predators, supernatural powers, and so on); others are to communicate meanings through its structure and show the audience the level of technology and economy, the climate and type of behaviour that a society has at a given time. Architecture and Urban Design have a common purpose which is to facilitate the lives of people. They work in different scales, but they complement each other. Although architects and urban designers have been fighting for many years (the architects want beautiful buildings, unlike the urban designers that want functional well-planned buildings), the purposes that they're looking for is to create a habitable, beautiful, functional and organized zone, adapted to its context. On the other hand, construction materials can be different and they are not specified by the weather, so we find identical houses made ​​of various materials (even in very different places). However, as we find different types of houses depending on the weather, materials, budget and needs of the client, we find different types of cities that meet more general needs. Therefore, architecture and urban design must work together, put aside their differences and solve people's problems. As well as there are millions of different buildings, there are many different cities, and in every city there are in turn millions of people who expect their needs to be met. //**How does Caracas stand in terms of both, architecture and urban planning? **//
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Caracas City in terms of Urban Planning has a bad organization and distribution of the places. That is evidenced by the growing population, inadequate transportation, services and roads.

Caracas City in terms of Architecture has very similar buildings (that have no style and beauty), and with the pass of time become boring walking beside them. **__Questions: __** **Why do people create built environments of such elaborateness? **

Because the elaborateness is its way that people: •provide settings for certain activities; • remind people of what these activities are; • signify power, status, or privacy; • express and support cosmological beliefs; • communicate information: help establish individual or group identity; and encode value systems; • separate domain and differentiate between here and there, sacred and profane, men and women, front and back, private and public, habitable and uninhabitable, and so on.

**What are the possible purposes of architecture? ** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">The possible purposes of architecture are: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Be a shelter for people and their activities and possessions from the elements, from human and animal enemies, and from supernatural powers; to establish place; to create a humanized, safe area in a profane and potentially dangerous world; to stress social identity and indicate status; and so on.

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