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 According to the texts [|“The purposes of the architecture”] and [|“Urban design as a career”] architecture and urban planning are very similar careers. Architecture is not only a discipline that takes care of building houses, also it is a discipline that takes **care** of the community, with that I mean that it provides structure to the city by designing different buildings with different meanings. Likewise, urbanism creates places that will have different purposes and will be used and enjoyed by different people.

Architecture helps to create identity and status in humans and urbanism provides the identity of a community. However, architecture creates this identity for each individual or family in particular thought their house or building and  ,o n the contrary , urban planning gives each city an identity, so its inhabitants can relate to it and feel like belonging to it.

Both professions have their way of working. On one the hand, architecture works with different structures, materials, construction techniques and design. and on the other, Urban planning organizes various elements in a set. At the end, they both seek to improve living conditions by creating spaces that are attractive and functional to live or visit. 

Venezuela, like most Latin American countries, and because of its status of developing country, has an overcrowded capital city. It is well known that Caracas has more population than it can handle. This overcrowding is due to the abandonment of rural areas and migration of peasants to the city in search of a better quality of life. However, this does not happen because on reaching the city and for the lack of resources, they constructed their houses in an informal and disorganized way.

In terms of planning, the main problem that Caracas undergoes is, undoubtedly, the overpopulation. In terms of architecture, the city is loaded with European trends that reflect a historical past, however, we have fallen behind in technology, it is needed to invest in cutting-edge trends in architecture, considering that Caracas is the capital city and it represent**s** the country.

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