Slides+of+Spatial+Organization



 ***SPATIAL ORGANIZATION* ** 

My oral presentation is related to the spatial organization in urban planning area. Spatial organization is the order of the objects and the human in space living harmonically. The objects in the space can be described as lines, areas and volumes.

The spatial organization is at the same time related with different variables in the world (Citizens, nature, constructions and other things) and an urban planner should take into a count all that variables in the city's developing process.

** What Spatial Organization Means? **   Spatial organization refers to the arrangement of physical and human objects on the Earth's surface. Points, lines, areas and volumes are the four geometric features with which spatial organization can be easily described. For example a school can be thought of as a point, connected by roads (which are lines) leading to nearby parks and neighborhoods (which are areas because they have length and breadth or some irregular measurable shape), whereas a lake in a park can be thought of as a volume (because it has an area and depth). The descriptive process of spatial organization uses concepts such as location, distance, direction, density, and arrangement (linear, grid-like) to capture spatial relationships. The U.S. interstate highway system can be described as lines connecting points over an area.

** The Importance of Spatial Organization in the City´s development process... **

Spatial Organization is very important to development process of a City because, Understanding a city’s spatial organization or structure is essential to understanding its potential for different development objectives. According Alain Bertaud “Some Urban shapes are just more compatible with environmental and social objectives” Some city layouts, for example, are unfavorable to the development of public transit; others not only increase public transit’s efficiency but also reduce residential floor consumption. Because urban spatial structures are highly resilient and evolve only very slowly, says Bertaud, a city’s spatial structure significantly reduces the range of available development options. Can urban planners influence a city spatial organization? Should they? Should urban planners attempt to change a city’s spatial structure in order to improve a city’s performance in particular sector such as transport, environment or access to jobs by the poor? The chances to do so are rather limited and they are long range, but they nevertheless exist. A planner disposes of three tools to influence city shape: land use regulations, infrastructure investments and taxation. However, to be able to use these tools coherently, clearly established objectives must have been formulated by elected officials.

** Spatial Organization in Constructions or Architecture… **

It is very important especially in the construction of buildings. It is very important because it relates to good use and distribution of the internal spaces of a building, a house or compound. An architect to design has to take into account many factors to achieve a good spatial organization. All spaces must be connected to a central area, is one of the basic ideas of spatial organization in a building. For example, a shopping mall is laid out in this way-- short hallways branch off of a central concourse so that the visitor is never far from a large, central space that connects back to all the other minor spaces radiating from it. It is important to provide security and a sense of location while the user travels and explore new parts of the building, without leaving it to adrift.  ** Conclusions and Spatial Organization in Caracas … **  Spatial Organization is used to describe the location of places, objects and people in space. It is also used to describe movement through space. For example, spatial organization is used by architects to describe buildings, by engineers to describe the parts of an engine, and by historians to describe the routes explorers followed.    <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); font-size: 11pt; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; text-align: center; color: rgb(33, 88, 104);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Now let´s talk about our capital city. As we know, Venezuela still belongs to the countries called "developing countries"; our capital "Caracas" is a reflection of that. <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);"> <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">Caracas has no urban planning, just from the beginning the city has a grid design, then it began to grow wildly without any organization creating chaos in many aspects that can be seen even today. We can see this lack of spatial organization and urban planning every day, for example, we can find traffic problems, lack of pedestrian spaces, pollution, trade settlements and housing, which is common in many Latin American cities and many others. So, it´s up to us to design and create a good organized Caracas and Venezuela. <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); text-align: left; display: block;">