11-07-2014, 07:37 AM
Eksitics
The attempt to arrive at a proper conception and implementation of the facts, concepts and ideas related to human settlements, and the attempt to re-examine all principles and theories and to readjust the disciplines and professions connected with settlements, led to the need for a special discipline of human settlements, the discipline of Ekistics.
Ekistics is the study of human settlement, which examines not only built forms, but also the interface of time, movements and systems in the built environment. It is an integrative body of knowledge organized into a cohesive system.
Doxiadis saw ekistics as an intellectual approach to balance the convergence of the past, present, and future in human settlements as well as a system for creatively coping with the growth of population, rapid change and the pressures of large-scale, high-density housing.
The attempt to arrive at a proper conception and implementation of the facts, concepts and ideas related to human settlements, and the attempt to re-examine all principles and theories and to readjust the disciplines and professions connected with settlements, led to the need for a special discipline of human settlements, the discipline of Ekistics.
Ekistics is the study of human settlement, which examines not only built forms, but also the interface of time, movements and systems in the built environment. It is an integrative body of knowledge organized into a cohesive system.
Doxiadis saw ekistics as an intellectual approach to balance the convergence of the past, present, and future in human settlements as well as a system for creatively coping with the growth of population, rapid change and the pressures of large-scale, high-density housing.