Urban+Design+and+Architecture

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #ff3700; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; msobidifontfamily: 'Courier New'; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msoasciifontfamily: Calibri; msohansifontfamily: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;"> Urban design and architecture are intimately related, because one could not exist without the other, however each has different functions. Urban design is an activity that involves the design of the city and landscape, but architecture is about creating spaces for interaction and housing for people living in those cities. Urban design aims to developing visions for place, designing built spaces, researching and analyzing places and people, helping the public to take part in planning and designing their neighborhoods, among others. Instead, Architecture aims to 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, among others. But they have the same mission that is to change how the environment is shaped. These activities are different but similar at the same time, both are concerned with where their customers live, but the difference is that architecture is more individual and urban design is mostly in group. Although different, it is important to remember that always they have to work together to achieve their goal more efficiently. In my opinion, now in Caracas, the people is not given the necessary importance to the urban design, they overestimate to the engineer and they don’t listen the urban planner, who is the person that is educated about what it would be a better road for the city. With the architect the situation is not very different, the art of building cannot make anyone but it seems that people fail to understand, everybody can put walls and doors, easy, but the architect design a place where people can coexist and interact, not only to live.  media type="file" key="UrbanArchitecture.mp3" 