Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821646
V. Evmolpidis
The purpose of this anecdotal paper is to present a personal experience from working with Panayis Psomopoulos while working in Doxiadis Associates in the study team for the Regional Development Plan of Greece and qualify the judgments of Panayis, an acclaimed urban and regional planner in Greece, well-known worldwide
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821464
Harrison Wert Blackman
Constantinos Doxiadis (1913–1975), the inventor of ekistics and founder of the eponymous journal, was one of the major architects and city planners of the twentieth century. In recent decades, however, his body of work has been largely ignored. In 2011, his monumental house at Porto Rafti was demolished, exposing the consequences of such obscurity. To date, no comprehensive narrative biography of Doxiadis exists in English, a void I seek to fill in my ongoing biography project of Doxiadis’ life and legacy, tentatively titled The World Planner. In this essay, I discuss the fate of the Porto Rafti house, sketch Doxiadis’ life story, explain the origins of my project, and solicit further collaboration from interested readers.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821657
Myrto (Petunia) Exacoustou
The present issue is the first part of a two-part ensemble of special issues of the Ekistics and the New Habitat journal under the theme “Ekistics-related research in Greece”. Greece presently has a constantly growing community of researchers, academics, and scholars regularly involved with the issues and the field of Human Settlements. This issue is exploring the current discussion on Ekistics or Ekistics-related work by many scholars and researchers in Greece and abroad. The authors are academics and/or practitioners of Greek and other nationalities, focusing on the study of Human Settlements and their related infrastructures in the quest for better living conditions for the people....
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821655
G. Giannopoulos
Of the many theories put forward for the future of urbanism and urbanization, the concepts of Eperopolis (the continent city) and Ecumenopolis (the universal city) that were put forward by the late architect planner Constantinos Doxiadis and his Ekistics theory in the 1950s and ‘60s, stand out as the most impressive and visionary. Panayis Psomopoulos, Doxiadis’ close associate and well-known architect planner of the Ekistics group, continued and developed further these concepts and publicized strongly through the Ekistics Journal which he managed as editor-in-chief until his passing away in 2017. This paper – conceived and written as a tribute to Panayis Psomopoulos - looks at the global trends of urbanization today and considers the role of transport and communication networks in its future development. It also tries to assess the degree to which the visions of Eperopolis and Ecumenopolis are materializing in the face of modern megacities and urban sprawl in all continents and how transport, communications and supply chain networks affect this process. Its findings support the view that Eperopolises are already materializing in some continents, most notably in Europe in the face of the central European urban cluster between Paris, London, Amsterdam and the Rhine/Ruhr area. Transport and communications networks provide “global connectivity” that acts both as the context (within which urban form develops) as well as the catalyst that plays a key role in limiting the further physical expansion of megacity clusters and braking the connection between urban development and space expansion. By providing efficient global “connectivity”, the future Transport and communication networks are seen as the main catalyst that will bring about materialization of the “universal city”, Ecumenopolis, through the virtual linking of all socio-economic activities in today’s mega-urban areas in all continents.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821652
Melodi Pak Karaoz
Constantinos A. Doxiadis’s entopia is a multidisciplinary design and planning system against the dystopian conditions of the mid-twentieth century. Embodying the criticism of the period’s architectural and urban trends, C. A. Doxiadis coined entopia as a practicable concept between “unattainable” utopia and “existing” dystopia in 1966 as a complementary term for ekistics’ principles to provide healthy living conditions for the oncoming world city, ecumenopolis. This paper examines Entopia’s historical and spatial context by investigating the uniqueness of the concept among the place theories of the same era, aiming to re-open a discussion of ekistics. Entopia suggests a dynapolis (dynamic city) model and integrates a grid plan for accessibility and adequate mobility. The idea originates from the need for a human-oriented approach for future settlements of developing countries, new towns to be built, and existing settlements to be transformed in the direction of emerging needs. In this context, the paper first focuses on the grid plan and linear city model as antecedents of entopia’s dynamic city model. Secondly, modernist utopias are examined to compare entopia and other …topia projections. Thirdly, the place theories of the 1960s are criticized as the contemporary debates of entopia.
Constantinos a . Doxiadis的entopia是一个针对二十世纪中期反乌托邦环境的多学科设计和规划系统。C. a . Doxiadis体现了对这一时期的建筑和城市趋势的批评，他在1966年创造了“乌托邦”这个概念，作为“无法实现的”乌托邦和“现有的”反乌托邦之间的一个实用概念，作为对生态学原则的补充，为即将到来的世界城市提供健康的生活条件。本文通过考察该概念在同一时代的地方理论中的独特性，考察了Entopia的历史和空间背景，旨在重新开启对地理学的讨论。Entopia提出了一个动态城市模型，并整合了一个网格计划，以实现可达性和充分的流动性。这个想法源于对发展中国家未来住区、新城镇建设和现有住区朝着新需求方向改造的以人为本的方法的需要。在此背景下，本文首先关注了作为意大利动态城市模型前身的网格规划和线性城市模型。其次，考察现代主义乌托邦，比较乌托邦和其他乌托邦投影。第三，20世纪60年代的地方理论被批评为当代关于乌托邦的争论。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821640
V. Trova
Doxiadis urban planning ideas have been implemented from 1950ies until the 80ies in a number of Middle East and Asian cities. In 1957 he introduced a model for neighbourhood design which was first implemented in the National Housing Program of Iraq. The model seems to have been adopted in other countries and cities where fast urbanization created urgent need for rapid urban expansions. Variations of the original pattern have been created and have been used as basic units for building new residential areas. This paper will analyse similarities and differences between the original Doxiadis class community models and the “Doxiadis pattern” which has been used for the development of the northern part of Najran city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the early 80ies. It will try to associate the transformation of the original pattern with the cultural context of the specific society.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821621
N. Belavilas, Polina Prentou
The paper explores the urban, social and economic geography of the city of Piraeus and its metropolitan urban area during the recent years. The city is characterized by urban shrinkage, deindustrialization and declining urban conditions. Meanwhile, the port economy is increasing and urban infrastructure and significant real-estate projects lay on the city. The current situation seems to be out of the control of the city. The acceleration of the growth of the port is not reflected in the surrounding neighborhoods. The risk of a new type of spatial polarization at the urban level is visible.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821604
Ian Fookes
Welcome to the seventh special issue of the international journal Ekistics and the New Habitat: The problems and science of human settlements. On behalf of the Advisory Editorial Board, I would like to briefly introduce the present special issue: Ekistics- Related Research in Greece (Part 1 of 2): A Critical Approach to the Ekistics Legacy. This issue is dedicated to Panayis Psomopoulos (1926-2017), a legendary figure in Ekistics whose efforts to lead the organisation and the journal Ekistics secured its legacy and laid the foundation for the current journal. It is in his memory that the contributions to this issue have been prepared. .....
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2022821656
Myrto (Petunia) Exacoustou
In 1957-8 Doxiadis Associates undertook the National Housing Project of Lebanon, a fast-track national development plan created in response to the imperative to house large parts of the population living in inadequate conditions. This national reconstruction plan is indicative of a heroic period of planning post-WWII. The legacy of CIAM - the Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne (1928-1959) – had been the spawning of modern movements, including Doxiadis’ newly born theory of Ekistics, that envisioned national scale development while furthering US hegemony in the cold war era. The National Housing Project of Lebanon arose in this context, and Doxiadis’ approach would distinguish him from his contemporaries. Consisting of a “sketching” phase involving data collection using diaries featuring photographic depictions and 500 sketches from 2.500 human settlements in Lebanon, and a “stretching” phase resulting in proposals for immediate implementation, specifically, housing schemes at the periphery of Beirut, Doxiadis’ approach was distinctive for mixing different functions to enhance social encounter, for grounding future typologies in existing localities, and for prioritizing community-sensitive planning by insisting on the importance of human scale. Unfortunately, political changes after the plan’s submission in May 1958 lead to its eventual abandonment, and problems in the wider area still prevail. The persistence in the region of violent conflicts, population flows, and the destruction of cities that leave the poorest living in slums and camps suggests that the planning strategies proposed by Doxiadis and his contemporaries did not fail, but instead, reveal the complex nature of the planning process itself, including its susceptibility to political forces. As such, the National Housing Project of Lebanon and other unrealized initiatives offer a rich resource for understanding the problems of human settlements which remain with us today.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021813561
S. Noakes, A. Powles
Culling a selective yet representative set of works on China’s growing presence in Pacific Island countries (PICs), this essay reviews and critically assesses early contributions to the field. To date, these contributions been motivated by two primary goals: a) gathering high-quality descriptive data on precisely what China does in individual PICs, in what amounts projects are funded, and by which actors projects are designed, negotiated, and carried out, and b) attempts to theorise China’s motivations for providing such aid and investment. However, we also find that research on the way local actors shape and influence Chinese engagement, and how China adapts to local norms and behaviours, is thin at best, as are appraisals of the impacts of Chinese aid at the local and national levels more broadly. We conclude that these extant gaps comprise an agenda for further empirical research, and that filling them necessitates attention to Pacific experiences of Chinese aid at the micro, meso, and macro levels.
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