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1. Why do people create built environments of such elaborateness?

To serve as a shelter is not the only purpose of a building. Built environments communicate meanings to help serve social purposes. Buildings are more than material objects or structures, they are institutions, basic cultural phenomena. People enjoy creating and living in very elaborate built environments.

2. What are the possible purposes of architecture?

-Provide settings for certain activities -Signify power, status or privacy -Communicate information -Express and support cosmological beliefs

3. Why are so many places so badly designed?

One of the reasons is that 84 per cent of planning applications are drawn up by someone with no design training. Nevertheless, the fact that a development is thought by someone qualified to design does not guarantee that the development will be pleasant for the people that will use it. Sometimes the designers give more importance to short-term aims: to build something that the developer can sell quickly; or to serve the building’s users, rather than making a more pleasant experience for people passing by.

4.What should urban designers be concerned with?

Planners should be concerned, not just with land use, but with the physical form of development.

5. What is the purpose of urbna planning?

In general you could say that is to organize the city and make it more effective. More specifically, -To design streets, neighbourhoods and towns -To provide better public services -To encourage good behaviour in citizens and that way decrease crime -To enhance the economic activity of an area o region -To create pleasant spaces for living -To decrease traffic congestion and pollution in the cities