| Sumario: | The author wants to establish the relationship between the agents and circumstances involved in the implementation of the first graduate studies on urbanism in Venezuela. The making of Caracas as the capital of the new country, during the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, not only morphologically marked the urban center but it also established the engineering -and its guild-, along with public health, as the first sources used to outline the professional competence and needs. The accelerated urbanization process that began with the oil impact on the country's economy, clearly revealed the lack of human resources to face the increasing urban problems; therefore, possible solutions to them were sought first in Europe and later in the United States. The public sector substituted -through its own urban planning organizations- the lack of academic formation with the professional practice in public administration, first at a municipal level and then at the national one. At the same time, a group of immigrants joined the private construction sector. Despite the uneven quality of the group, it contributed to adapt the imported models to the country's requeriments and therefore, to evidencíate the need for the implementation of graduate studies on urbanization in Venezuela.
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