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Architecture and urban planning have common characteristics, the purpose of designing places. However, the architect does make designs for a group of people, while the urban planner does make designs for a great group of people. Urban planners must research and analyze places and people. Specifically they must understand the physical, political, economic, spatial and psychological context of the places and they must understand the people who use them. Then, they must develop guidelines and policies relating to the built environment. This is because the urban planners can’t design the places entirely, usually, what they can do is propose changes to existing sites. Unlike urban planners, the architects can specify an entire proposal. Still, the architects must also understand and analyze the people that will use their design and the place of the construction, because each new building must adapt to the others that already exist and it has to satisfy all specific needs of customers. In this sense, indirectly architects and urban planners must work together, because this way both designs intervening positively in the city, harmoniously. In Caracas, for example, the integration between buildings and roads is very interesting. Caracas isn't a flat city for what the provision of spaces is a very complicated job. However, the city isn’t organized in a perfect grid; it has an attractive urban fabric, of purer forms. Thus, the city is dynamic, exciting and captivating. Also, it has in all its territory many extraordinary buildings, they appear as huge towers in places almost unusual, and they together are a set worthy of admiration. media type="file" key="Writing.mp3"