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 * Differences between architecture and urban Planning**

Not long time ago, it has been created a new profession called Urban Planning. The planners control the social, economic and physical aspects of a city to organize and create safe and comfortable places. Architecture, on the other hand, is a profession that evolved long time ago and the principal function of a professional of architecture is the creation of an edification that meets the needs of a client or the needs of the persons that will use the edification. So, the architects are only responsible of creating a building, but the urban planners are only responsible of the city in which the building will be located. Besides, the urban planner can design groups of building, in contrast, the architect can create only one building. So we can say that urban planning is a " MACROARCHITECTURE".

Both, the ideas of an architect and the ideas of the Urban planner should complement to each other. For this, you cannot say that one profession is more complete than the other. In conclusion, both must work together to create a perfet and harmonious city. You cannot build a building without taking into account the environment around the place and the social, cultural and economic aspects of the place.

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__Caracas in architecture terms:__ I think that, in Caracas there are many areas that are very old and therefore don't meet the characteristics of modern architecture, in other words, they are unattractive structures, worn structures, etc..Now, the 'modern' places of the city are very attractive in the design of structures.
 * How does Caracas stand in terms of both, architecture and urban planning?**

In general, __in the urban planning aspects__, Caracas doesn't have a correctly urban planning for the amount of people that it has, it is planned for a smaller number of inhabitants

build environments have different purposes: systems; women, front and back, private and public, habitable and uninhabitable, and so on.
 * Why do people create built environments of Such elaborateness? **
 * 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
 * Separate domain and differentiate between here and there, sacred and profane, men and

**What are the possible Purposes of architecture?** its function is not only a haven and protect the people of the climate and damaging agents, other functions are:


 * Shelter 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.