Comparison+and+Contrast+Urban+Design-Architecture

Architecture and Urban Design Architecture and Urban Planning are very similar because they are related, but there are differences between them. One important difference is the scale, an architec works with a smaller scale than an urban planner, an architect designs or creates houses, buildings, hotels and other similar buildings, but the urban planners design the environment in general, cities, developments, and services like the networks. However, both of them, an architect and an urban planner, have to meet and satisfy the people's needs. Another difference is for those who they are working with. The architect works for less people than the urban planner; this is a consequence of the scale.  Meanwhile, an architect works for a small group of people or, in most cases, for a single client, the urban planners work for a community.On the other hand, in spite that an urban planner or an urban designer works with a big scale and its works are destined to the community, architecture as a career is more popular and better known than the urban design.



Caracas isn’t the best example of the urban design and the architecture in a city. To me, Caracas is poorly designed; the highways and streets are a disaster and do not satisfy the needs. There are several problems such as deteriorated highways, poor services like electricity, water, among others, transport problems, more cars than highways and others. The most important issue is that architecture and urban planning aren’t good designed in general. I think that Caracas isn’t an interesting city in an architectural way. Caracas has the potential to be a great city that could satisfy the people's needs, be organized and with some rich architecture, but the process to meet that, hasn’t started yet.  