Purposes

PURPOSES- URBAN PLANNING Urban planning involves the design of buildings, spaces and landscapes. When doing urban designs, it’s important to think about a lot of aspects because that design will affect a lot people, not only a particular user.

I think that the podcast was very interesting, especially the part about why are some many places so badly design. I didn’t know the fact that 84% of the planning applications are drawn up by people with no design training.

I also think that is significant that urban planners think more in developing spaces to serve to building users more than people passing by. That means that streets are less pleasant and comfortable for pedestrians.

One of the purposes of urban planning involves helping the correct development of each place. If urban planners don’t think in long term perspective and do short term designs, that would solve problems immediately but may cause more problems later.

I think that opening urban planning as a career was very wise because it concentrates a lot of aspects that where previously separated and seen from different perspectives from particular professions.

PURPOSES – ARCHITECTURE Why do people create built environments of such elaborateness?

As Leanne Mackenzie said, buildings are more than material objects. I think that humans are not superficial when it comes to designing and building. Creating a specific building or house will involve studying the client, whether is particular or a group. Those people will have needs, a history, and a part of them is going to be revealed when designing what they want.

A building or house reflects the culture, the society or person, status and other things that will become a sheltered area where you can be comfortable because it has a part of you.

What are the possible purposes of architecture?

Shelter people in their activities and possessions from different elements, like animals and supernatural powers, to establish place, to create a humanized safe area, indicate status and so on.