1st Edition
Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela Government, Infrastructure and Environment
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mapping the complexity of a poorly studied case
The urban region Caracas-Maracay-Valencia
Three attempts to deny the reality
A compound perspective to approach a complex case
Knowledge and foresight
The difficulties to investigate in Venezuela nowadays
Strategies to operate in a harsh context
Chapter 2. The formation of the main urban region of Venezuela
Camava definitions: what has been said
Strategic position, natural conditions and sea proximity
First concentration, centuries of an archipelago country
Second concentration, from one caudillo to another
Third concentration, more than ever
Chapter 3. Three factors to understand a harsh reality
Recently dead metropolitan government
Once decent infrastructure
No place for nature
Nothing less, nothing more, just Camava
Chapter 4. Agreement on the complex future
Not-so-uncertain Delphi results
Incoming transversal conditions
Chapter 5. Camava’s future expectation
Five scenarios for Camava
Looking through the scenarios
Chapter 6. Synthesizing strengths and weaknesses
A more honest future
Final thoughts
Biography
Fabio Capra Ribeiro is Associate Professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He is a practicing architect, with a Master’s degree in Science in Architectural Design and a PhD in Urbanism and fifteen years working on social, spatial, and environmental justice, particularly in the degradation of the contemporary city through the study of integration spaces and boundary conditions. His website address is www.capraribeiro.com.
