Purposes

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Urban design as a career

Hi! I`m Grace Morazzani, I`m studying architecture and I have listened your podcast about the urban design. I`m totally agree with you thinking in the bad design of the cities, I think that Urbanist and Architect have to work toghether for the good function and flow of the cities. The city is a group of organized building and one depends of the other... it doesn`t matter how good is the design of a building if it is located in a place messy and with a bad circulation. It is obvious that a good city is going to be the place where architects, urban planners, engineers and all the people that works on the creation of spaces really work together using in the design process all the training and knowledge learned by every professional.

Thanks for all :)

The purposes of architecture

Hi! I´m Grace Morazzani, I am studying architecture and i have listened your podcast about the purposes of the architecture. I really like this podcast because it really good summarized the uses and utilities of the architecture. It started with caverns and coves and now we have in the cities all over the planet the most amazing creations ever!. Protection to the people, social identity, and stablish a place are the principal purposes of every construction, also it has to be comfortable, beautiful and has to be accord to the city where it is placed. Really nice podcast

Thanks

Comparison and contrast paragraph between architecture and urban planning

Urban Planning and the architecture are two very similar careers. They both have to design places that must satisfy the needs of the client, making them useful, beautiful, unique, comfortable and so much other things and aspect that Architects and urban planners have to consider. But these two careers are not the same, they are similar but never the same, one complement the other. Architects have to design small scale spaces, buildings, houses, and others, while urban planners have to take the big-scale and organize every building in a design that we call "cities". Cities as any building have to consider aspects like functions, flow, beauty, innovation, and others.

Caracas is a city that shows a very poor urban design. It shows signs of poor circulation, traffic, little space for pedestrians, disorder, mess and others. Also, Caracas shows very renowned buildings in contaminated and poorly organized zones, making buildings lose their values. Thus, we can say that urban planning in this city has been bad and poorly managed and so are the problems facing the city today. I think that it is obvious that urban planners and architects should work together to make every space better and better, and keep making innovation and modernizing our cities in order to improve the quality of life of every client.

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