Architecture+and+Urban+Planning

//Similar but different //
 * Purposes of Architects and Urban Planners **



Architecture and urban planning are two very important careers. Both have very similarities but are not the same. Do you know what do those careers?

First, both have the **responsibility** to create habitable spaces. The architect and the urban planner have to be creative and logical. Also they need to have knowledge about anything.

Also those careers are not the same. Architect work with facades, designing small spaces. In contrast, urban planners work with urban spaces, big places, countries, cities.

The architects think in the necessities of a person or a group of people, different of the urban planner that has to think in the necessities of a city or a very big group of persons and in the harmony of the context.

Finally, comparing those careers, although has very similarities, are two very different professions.

I think that Caracas have some urban design problems, for example some streets, that are very smaller to the function that they have to do, or very dangerous highways like Tazon. In the other hand, I think that Caracas have very good examples of architecture and urban design like Plaza Altamira and the "Plaza Cubierta" of the UCV