The Creativity encompassing the Urban Environment of Trinidad.

Urban Geography, by Tim et al p.g. 198. Quotes, " In thinking about the city as written, urban geographers have examined architecture and urban design as elements in the political economy of urbanization  linked into the dynamics of urban change. This work builds on the ideas from urban morphology of architectural style as a manifestation of the processes of creating form, namely the interaction of the agents and processes of change, linking this to political economy perspectives on the dynamics of capitalism in creating and destroying urban environment. Here architecture promotes the circulation of capital and helps stimulate consumption and the extraction of surplus value by providing new products and designs of different market segments, such as new office blocks, shopping centres, or housing developments. It can also add an aura to developments which serve to legitimize existing economic and social relations and suggest stability and permanence... the relationship between the development of global advanced capitalism and the emergence of new post-modern architectural forms. The property industry can be seen to have adopted post-modern spectacular styles to promote product differentiation in an increasingly competitive global market and to both create and supply demand for an increasingly consumerist society. Similarly, the dystopian side to post-modern architecture has also been evident in new development in the creation of fortress architecture of security and surveillance systems designed to exclude 'undesirables' such as beggars or rough sleepers from the increasing privatized urban public realm. Here architects play an important role in the internal survival mechanism which have evolved to meet the needs of urbanized capital, particularly as part of the process of mediating crisis and change."

 The structures to the right all represent creative expressions of the urban city. Each structure is representative of the evolution of the city over the years. The structures are symbolic of the transitions that have occurred with the change in concepts as to how the buildings and functions of the city correspond to political and socio-cultural changes that have taken place. The dynamics of these structures tell a story of the history of the development of the city. The shift of dominance over time has been one from colonialism, to religious, and then to capitalist. The arrangement and the usage of the land has become more intensive with the growth of the population and the varying functions of the city, as is depicted by the change in the layout of the city.

 Present day post- modern concepts of building structures highlight the introduction of external influences into the culture of the city and by extension the society. These post-modern styles promote the differentiation of structures that adapt to the competitive global market, to help stimulate consumption varying market segments.

The presence of both historical and current architect signifies the maintenance of cultural values within a changing environment where external forces are introducing other cultures into the space. A harmonious mixing of structures formulates a unique characteristic to the city which is reflective of the    scope and the resilience of its citizens to intertwine relationships and create a stable environment within the  inequalities that have been established by the systems in operation which become permanent with the passage of time in the urban space.