We live in an era that is deprived of architectural knowledge and understanding.

These flaws become flagrant through our erroneous concept of planning. Indeed, our perception of planning as being merely the application of design and architecture to individualized buildings in the specific context of their natural or urban environment, is close to atavistic. Buildings tend to overwhelm and even subjugate the surrounding natural habitat with no regard for consequences. Our local development trends belie the current needs expressed by our culture and populace as we still rely very heavily on the infrastructure set up in the colonial era. Those facilities were more than adequate when our population averaged a few hundred thousand. However, when the current census is approximately 1.3 million, should we not adapt our urban planning to cater for this demographic expansion?

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