Constantinos A. Doxiadis

The realistic view of the City of the Future accepts that it will be a global city.

Le Corbusier

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

Patrick Geddes

A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time

Rowan Moore

If you can tell a man by his shoes, you can tell a city by its pavements.

Emerging career in Ekistics

3 Jul 20193 Jul 2019

www.prokerala.com Ekistics is a branch of science which deals with the human habitat, settlements and the various measures to be taken in context of it. Ekistics also includes planning and…

Impact of Urbanization on Land Use Changes in Agartala City, India

19 Jun 201919 Jun 2019

By:- Abhijit Santra1* , Saptarshi Mitra2 , Debasish Debbarma1 1Research Scholar, Department of Geography and Disaster Management, Tripura University, 799022 2Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Disaster Management, Tripura University,…

EKISTICS AND ENERGETICS: A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE PLANNING APPROACH

16 Jun 2019

ABSTRACT Johnstone, I.M., 1979. Ekistics and energetics: a sustainable future planning approach. Urban Ecol., 4: 227-233. Future planning involves the self-reflexive assumption of mankind’s continued survival. The study of Steady…

REVISITING SCIENTIFIC EPISTEMOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE: Ekistics and Modernism in the Middle East

13 Jun 201916 Jun 2019

by Panayiota loanni Pyla Department of Architecture on May 6, 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ABSTRACT Initiated by the Greek architect Doxiades in the early fifties, the term "Ekistics" designated…

“Ekistics a science or a tool for action?”

10 Jun 2019

by Demosthenes Agrafiotis Professor of Sociology National school of Public Health dagrafiotis@nsph.gr EVENT: «CONSTANTINOS A. DOXIADIS AND HIS WORK» 19-21/1/2006 “Ekistics a science or a tool for action?” (The Doxiadis…

Human Settlements and Climate Change

8 Jun 2019

By Jelena Živković, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Definition Human settlement is a place where people live. It refers to the totality of human community with…

City-States and Ekistics

7 Jun 2019

By Stefano Cagnato (italian-ecuadorian digital humanist and post-colonial feminist marxist) I’ve been submerged into a game of Civilization V with a close friend. We’ve managed to destroy Askia’s empire, and…

The Inclusive Role of Ekistics Elements in Earmarking Innovation Zones through a Balanced Distribution of Smart Development and Local Expression: Case of Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA)

3 Jun 20193 Jun 2019

Prerna Mandal, Joy Sen (Research Scholar Prerna Mandal, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, prerna4sw@gmail.com) (Prof. Joy Sen, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian…

Addressing disciplinary, and academic and practitioner divides in thinking on the city: The case of the ekistics model in the development of planning theory and urban studies

3 Jun 20193 Jun 2019

Susan Ball, Department of English, University of Paris Abstract This paper starts by introducing the ekistics model of human settlements in terms of its interdisciplinary approach to thinking on the…

ENVIRONMENT AND THE ROLE OF EKISTICS

28 May 201929 May 2019

(A) INTRODUCTION by :- Professor John G. Papaioannou The Role of Ekistics in Long-Term Projections (Methodology and Reliability of Results) Ekistics (Ek), a global science of Human Settlements (HS) (small…