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Dimensions increase and will continue to increasefor a few generation and thus the most probablefuture in denable terms will mean a very largeincrease of population and energy in the city ofAnthopos (man). This is the city where the wholemankind will live or tend to live.

!.A.D"#$AD$%

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Born 1913

comes from a family that played an important role in the settlement ofGreek war refugees in between the two World Wars

Worked

Chief Town lanning !fficer" Greater #thens #rea $193% & 193'()

*ead" +epartment of ,egional and Town lanning" -inistry of ublic

Works" Greece $1939 & 19./()

Major Projects

0n the application of his theories on Ekistics" C)#) +oiadis studied"

programmed" planned and designed" in collaboration with his colleagues"

a great number of human settlements and other de2elopment proects)These proects co2er se2eral fields" like rural settlements" agriculture and

irrigation" industrial settlements" manufacturing" power and public works"

commerce and tourism" transportation and communications" housing"

urban renewal and de2elopment of new cities"etc)

CONSTANTINOS A. DOXIADIS

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+oiadis posited a con2enient way of organi4ing information and mapping out

the components and relationships of the elements within the human

settlements realm) *e suggests to ha2e a Classificatory 5ystem that will be amethodology to establish the hierarchical structure and links among elements

of a system)

&'$%T$!% A*&+"'

6kistics is the science of human settlements7

this characteristic refers to functions

epressed in space by area of certaindimensions) 0n practice" 6kistics has set the

goal of human happiness

*is two Classificatory +imensions8

1) irst +imension& relati2e to 5cale:

;

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&'$%T$!% A*&+"'>) 5econd +imension& man?s fi2e

6n2ironmental 6lements:

; @ature; 5ociety

; 5hells

; @etworks

; Culture

i) The first principle is maimi4ation of man?s potential contacts with the elements

of nature $such as water and trees(" with other people" and with the works ofman $such as buildings and roads()

ii) The second principle is minimi4ation of the effort reAuired for the achie2ement

of man?s actual and potential contacts)

iii) The third principle is optimi4ation of man?s protecti2e space" which means the

selection of such a distance from other persons" animals" or obects that he can

keep his Contacts with them $first principle( without any kind of 5ensory !rsychological discomfort)

iv. The fourth principle is optimi4ation of the Auality of man?s relationship with his

en2ironment" which consists of nature" society" shells $buildings and houses of

all sorts(and networks $ranging from roads to telecommunications() This is the

principle that leads to order" physiological and aesthetic" and that influences

architecture and" in many respects" art)

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&'$%T$!% A*&+"'v. inally" and this is the fifth principle" man organi4es his settlements in an attempt

to achie2e an optimum synthesis of the other four principles" and this optimi4ationis dependent on time and space" on actual conditions" and on man?s ability to

create a synthesis)

Ekistics & other Disciplines:

0n the first fi2e 2olumes" it is interesting to notethat out of a total of 1/ papers" $or >)9D(

are papers in economics" mainly regional

economic analysis) 5i papers$or/)%D( are on

geography" and 1 $or 1/)>D( on regional

science in general) hysical planning is

represented by )%D political aspects by 3)'D"sociology by 3)'D and transportation by 1)9D)

0t is Auite clear where the center of gra2ity lies)

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To achie2e this we must clarify what

we mean by cities) 0f we ha2e the

wrong conception && for eample" that

cities are Eall like the City of

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#@# by >

kilometers" the maimum

comfortable distance for

pedestrians)

+oiadis limited the number of roads on campus)

#ll the educational buildings are interconnected to

permit people to walk from one to the other)

Courtyards pro2ide a place for meetings between

people)

Central mall in a recently

built shopping centre

outside

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DEVELOPMENT OF HUMN !ETTLEMENT

6$A7& in 0re 4rbanarea

!ity in 8egining 4rbanarea

&arlydynapolis

Dynapolis59$ndustrial&ra

*etropolis59$ndustrial&ra

*egalopolis (arge politicalunits)

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D&6&"0*&-T " 34*A-%&TT&*&-T

&cumenopolis 59

%ettlement "f uture

&cumenopolis 59 As Dead

!ity

&cumenopolis 59 As!ity of ife

!ne of the maor problems is the great confusion created by a miing of two

elementsHof man and machineHwithin the cities of the present) This

confusion" which brings man and machine into conflict in all urban areas" has

been resol2ed satisfactorily in fa2or of the machine only for maor lines of

transportation where man as a free agent has been completely separated from

machine and has been confined within it)

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A74*&-T% :AT3& ;4&%T$"-%

Are dimensions actually increasing animals and other life forms< +hy then cities still live= without

succumbing to this devastating growth