Comparision+and+Contrast

Architecture and urban planning are careers that work in the same field and have to reach an agreement on every project, in order for the construction accomplish every requirement in the best way.

However, they aren’t equal; even though both create spaces, if we look closer, their purposes are quite different. Architecture creates more specific, local spaces; on the contrary, urban planning is about the relationships between those spaces, it has a general view of the city.

Architecture purposes go beyond dwellings; through architecture a construction can express believes, hierarchy and functions. Also, it can transmit power, senses and information about if it is a private or public place, sacred or profane. Architecture is meant for people, so they can be, exist, perceive a pleasant space an inhabit it.

On the other hand, we have urban planning that takes care of the connections among the spaces; it’s not longer about people being on a place, but on how they move among the spaces. In the same way, urban planning looks after the unit of all the constructions together, the unit of the whole city.

Obviously, urban planning and architecture have to work together so everything goes right on a settlement; but this case is rare to find since usually on cities, one of them is missing or has a weak condition. For example, we have Caracas, where urban planning is almost absent. In consequence, there’s no harmony among places. There are serious traffic problems, not many green areas and there's no sense of unit. All of this is due to the weaknesses of urban planning. Therefore, even though architecture exists, there’s no order to it and restrictions are almost inexistent or easily brakable. That's why architecture and urban planning should be always present on a project development so the product is coherent and harmonious therefore, pleaseant.