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.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Mapping the complexity of a poorly studied caseThe urban region Caracas-Maracay-ValenciaThree attempts to deny the realityA compound perspective to approach a complex caseKnowledge and foresightThe difficulties to investigate in Venezuela nowadaysStrategies to operate in a harsh contextChapter 2. The formation of the main urban region of VenezuelaCamava definitions: what has been saidStrategic position, natural conditions and sea proximityFirst concentration, centuries of an archipelago countrySecond concentration, from one caudillo to anotherThird concentration, more than everChapter 3. Three factors to understand a harsh realityRecently dead metropolitan governmentOnce decent infrastructureNo place for nature Nothing less, nothing more, just CamavaChapter 4. Agreement on the complex futureNot-so-uncertain Delphi resultsIncoming transversal conditionsChapter 5. Camava’s future expectationFive scenarios for CamavaLooking through the scenariosChapter 6. Synthesizing strengths and weaknessesA more honest futureFinal thoughts

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.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Mapping the complexity of a poorly studied caseThe urban region Caracas-Maracay-ValenciaThree attempts to deny the realityA compound perspective to approach a complex caseKnowledge and foresightThe difficulties to investigate in Venezuela nowadaysStrategies to operate in a harsh contextChapter 2. The formation of the main urban region of VenezuelaCamava definitions: what has been saidStrategic position, natural conditions and sea proximityFirst concentration, centuries of an archipelago countrySecond concentration, from one caudillo to anotherThird concentration, more than everChapter 3. Three factors to understand a harsh realityRecently dead metropolitan governmentOnce decent infrastructureNo place for nature Nothing less, nothing more, just CamavaChapter 4. Agreement on the complex futureNot-so-uncertain Delphi resultsIncoming transversal conditionsChapter 5. Camava’s future expectationFive scenarios for CamavaLooking through the scenariosChapter 6. Synthesizing strengths and weaknessesA more honest futureFinal thoughts