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“Santa Cruz del Este” is a poor neighborhood located in the municipality Baruta of the Miranda state in Venezuela. I’ll be talking about this settlement, its characteristics and some solutions proposed by some USB urban planning students, to improve the conditions in which these people live. This settlement covers 36 acres. When this area was occupied, it wasn´t taken into account certain rules which are applied in formal construction, which warranty that the basic conditions that humans need to live comfortable exist. It’s a risky area. It is prone to landslides and earthquakes (which are a constant in Venezuela). But the threat is not enough to make a place being risky, because this is given by the damages caused by a disaster, so the risk depends of the vulnerability of the people and structures that exist or live in the place where the disaster occurs. In Santa Cruz del Este, houses are made of brick, but it can be found many structures that, although they may have the correct construction materials, they seem to be about to fall down; which increase the possibility of being affected by an unexpected event. Another thing to worry about is the high density, and the spatial organization of the people. They live in small sites and there is not much free space between the structures. There are no more than 5 roads in the whole area, trough people can pass and go out in case of an emergency. At the USB, some partners and I are working in order to seek solutions for these people. We decided what actions we have to make to enhance the way of living of them, but minimizing costs, some of them are: 1. - Improving the vehicular and pedestrian roads: to expand and beautify them. 2. -Creating, besides roads, other public spaces where people can spend their free time, like squares. 3. -The lighting, road surfacing and paving of these areas. 4. - Constructing a Library at the outsides of the neighborhood, with one floor dedicated to meetings of the community. 5. -Constructing retaining walls in a large area of Santa Cruz, to reduce the risk for landslides. 6. – Constructing several buildings to relocate the people affected, as we’re going to need to pull down some structures.