Urban+design+and+Achitecture

Urban design is focused on the creation of places such as villages, towns and cities for the most successful development possible. Some people think the better the original design the better the place to live in. Not always the best design is the most functional or successful. The 84 per cent of these designs are made by people who didn’t study this career as a profession. Urban design has the challenge of making places the more usable and enjoyable for different people and different purposes, not only now but in years to come.

Architects and urban designers have something in common. They have to create new, comfortable, adaptable and well developed places. Of course one is based on the design of a single building or a complex of buildings and the other designs bigger spaces such as cities. Architects and urban designers have always argued when they have to work together. Architects consider that urban planners always discard their creations for aesthetics matters when they have no knowledge of it. On the other hand, designers defend themselves saying that a structure can’t be built as an isolated structure only because it's very aesthetic. This building most care on its surroundings, the people who will use it and the environmental impact it will have.

In Caracas I would say that urban planning does not take part of the development. This city, capital of Venezuela, grew very fast as an urban place, this way everything started to establish here. All services, public functions, facilities, distractions and some others developed without a plan. Today Caracas has become in a congested city, dangerous and hard to live in. Talking of architecture we have a different view. There are places were architects worried about the use of the building, its context and function. Also there are some other places were structures were imposed without caring of the needs of a building. media type="file" key="Architecture and Designers.mp3" width="240" height="20"