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 * The purposes of Architecture and Urban Design **

Architecture and urban planning are both together similar disciplines. Their function is to offer the population a comfortable and functional lifestyle. Urban planning is responsible of planning the entire city, taking into account factors such as the economy, topography, possible flows, culture and above all the needs of the population. Architecture’s getting a little bit more closer to the people and is responsible of developing every zone previously planned by the urban planner; design the buildings with the different necessary uses and the public spaces, as parks and squares.

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In Caracas is denoted the bad organization between both disciplines. In principle Caracas was founded with a precise urban organization, its layout was in reticulate clearly bounded. With the passing of the years our city was quickly growing in an informal way, with a low or non-existent urban planning. The buildings were emerging in some ways, and some of them were created by architects, with a clearly concept and coherent location. For these reasons nowadays Caracas suffers from serious problems of traffic, delinquency, contamination and mainly disorganization. Besides, I think that in Venezuela there`s not a policy that could help to solve the existing problems.

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