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Two Different Realities: two ways to live in the city nowadays

Authors

  • Diana Bracho de Machado Universidad del Zulia
  • Carmen Faría Larrazábal Universidad del Zulia
  • María Paredes de López Universidad del Zulia
Vol. 22 No. 60 (2007): Housing and Culture
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2007.62125

Abstract

Maracaibo, Venezuela's oil exploitation center, has organized its urban structure based on the Spanish traditional squared city planning since the XVII century, whose development presented a uniform structure. The XIX century dynamic growth added different shapes: Closed Villas, which added new paradigms that created a new space order. This work covers two closely link aspects. On one hand, the housing solution offer for middle and upper-middle class people; on the other hand this kind of urban development implies the creation of new urban patterns and codes, and meanings to its citizen's collective memory. It goes over the planning action and housing construction statu quo. It also shows the new experiences done in the 90's, which through the building of fortification walls expresses self-protection and disciplinary control of the social relationships. The research uses documental analysis, planimetric and direct observation of the urban phenomenon as a tool to help drawing the changes produced. These are helpful for the process understanding as well as the critical theory, as for teaching, the professional practice and the city planning.

Author Biographies

Diana Bracho de Machado, Universidad del Zulia

Venezolana, Arquitecta, Universidad del Zulia - LUZ. Venezuela - (1968). Master en Arquitectura mención Computación en Arquitectura, Dirección de Estudios para Graduados-LUZ (1994). Áreas de Investigación: Urbanismo, Vivienda, Historia de la Arquitectura.

Carmen Faría Larrazábal, Universidad del Zulia

Venezolana, Arquitecta, Universidad del Zulia - LUZ. Venezuela - (1975). Master en Arquitectura mención Computación en Arquitectura, Dirección de Estudios para Graduados-LUZ (1994). Áreas de Investigación: Urbanismo, Vivienda, Historia de la Arquitectura.

María Paredes de López, Universidad del Zulia

Venezolana, Arquitecta, Universidad del Zulia - LUZ. Venezuela - (1977). Master en Arquitectura mención Computación en Arquitectura, Dirección de Estudios para Graduados-LUZ (1994). Áreas de Investigación: Computación, Vivienda. mcparedes@cantv.net

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Bracho de Machado, D., Faría Larrazábal, C., & Paredes de López, M. (2007). Two Different Realities: two ways to live in the city nowadays. Revista INVI, 22(60). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2007.62125
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