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   **Purpose of architecture and urban planning** Architecture and urban planning are both careers with a lot of similarities. This is related to the fact that the purposes of both careers are basically to satisfy the society needs by designing places. The first similarity between the purpose of architecture and urban planning is that, as I already said, they both have to design places. In the same way, both careers have the power to make big social changes, as to diminish insecurity, because a design can mark an order that makes possible to have a better lifestyle. Another thing that architects and urban planners have in common is that they have to design flexible frameworks for possible changes in time. However, architecture and urban planning work in different scales, architecture is punctual and designs specific buildings, while urban planning designs cities, villages, etc. using the buildings that architects design. On the other hand, urban planning thinks about the context and its properties in contrast to architecture that sometimes leaves the context and design only for the client. We can see that architecture and urban planning are very complex careers with the function of organizing society. Although they are different in some areas, they are very related to each other and they need to work together to get better results.  **Opinion:** How does Caracas stand in terms of both, architecture and urban planning? In my opinion Caracas is a very complex and disorganized city nowadays, because its population is growing every day and there are no urban planners that try to organize it, so everybody can live comfortable, because there is no more space. I think this is why insecurity is increasing. In terms of architecture, Caracas is clearly the example of making architecture without taking the context into account, because all buildings are different and don’t have a rhythm.

  **Recording**

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