Villancio, Angellu Jerimie P. Sept.

26, 2018

ARC 154

PLANNING 3 ( 7:00 – 11:00 )

Seatwork #2

1. Who is Dr. Constantino A. Doxiadis?

he graduated in architectural engineering from the Technical University of Athens in 1935,

obtaining a doctorate from Charlottenburg University a year later. In 1937 he was appointed Chief
Town Planning Officer for the Greater Athens Area. During World War II he held the post of Head
of the Department of Regional and Town Planning in the Ministry of Public Works. He took part in
the Greek resistance and was decorated by the Greek and British governments. He distinguished
himself as Minister of Reconstruction at the end of the war and it was this experience that allowed
him in the 1950s to gain large housing contracts in dozens of countries

From 1945 to 1951 Doxiadis was one of the prime leaders in restoring Greece to a normal
peacetime existence, first as Undersecretary and Director-General of the Ministry of Housing and
Reconstruction (1945-48), and subsequently as Minister-Coordinator of the Greek Recovery
Program and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Coordination (1948-51). During these years he
was also head of the Greek Delegation at the UN International Conference on Housing, Planning
and Reconstruction (1947) and head of the Greek Delegation at the Greco-Italian War
Reparations Conference (1949-50).

In 1953 he founded Doxiadis Associates, a private firm of consulting engineers, with a small
group of architects and planners, many of whom had worked with him on the Greek Recovery
Program. The company grew rapidly until it had offices on five continents and projects in 40
countries, acquiring its legal form as DA International Co., Ltd., Consultants on Development and
Ekistics, in 1963. In 1958 Doxiadis founded the Athens Technological Organization and in 1963
the Athens Center of Ekistics. From 1958 to 1971 he taught ekistics at the Athens Technological
Organization and lectured at universities all over the United States as well as at Oxford and
Dublin.

In 1963 and 1964 he served as representative of Greece on the Housing, Building and
Planning Committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York and
was chairman of the Session on Urban Problems at the UN Conference on the Application of
Science and Technology for the benefit of the less developed areas held in Geneva in 1963.

During his lifetime Doxiadis received several awards and decorations, both civil and military as
well as one posthumous award, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Gold Medal for
1976.

 What is his contribution in the world of knowledge?

Doxiadis proposed ekistics as a science of human settlement and outlined its scope,
aims, intellectual framework and relevance. A major incentive for the development of
the science is the emergence of increasingly large and complex settlements, tending
 to regional conurbations and even to a worldwide city. However, ekistics attempts to
encompass all scales of human habitation and seeks to learn from the archaeological
and historical record by looking not only at great cities, but, as much as possible, at
the total settlement pattern.

 What is his influence on the FF:

 Architects / Urban Planners –

In the 1960s and 1970s, urban planner and architect Constantinos Doxiadis
authored books, studies, and reports including those regarding the growth
potential of the Great Lakes Megalopolis. At the peak of his popularity, in the
1960s, he addressed the US Congress on the future of American cities, his
portrait illustrated the front cover of Time Magazine, his company Doxiadis
Associates was implementing large projects in housing, urban and regional
development in more than 40 countries, his Computer Centre was at the
cutting edge of the computer technology of his time and at his annual "Delos
Symposium" the World Society of Ekistics attracted the worlds foremost
thinkers and experts.

One of his best-known town planning works is Islamabad. Designed as a new

city it was fully realised, unlike many of his other proposals in already existing
cities, where shifting political and economic forces did not allow full
implementation of his plans. The plan for Islamabad, separates cars and
people, allows easy and affordable access to public transport and utilities and
permits low cost gradual expansion and growth without losing the human
scale of his "communities".

2. How do you understand “ EKISTICS “ ?

Ekistics is a science of human settlement and aims to encompass all scales of human
habitation and seeks to learn from the archeological and historical record by looking not only
at great cities, but, as much as possible, at the total settlement pattern.

3. How do you understand human settlement.?

Human settlement is a process of grouping of people and acquiring of some territory to build
houses as well as for their economic support. It is defined as any form of human habitation which
ranges from a single dwelling to a large city. Its a process of opening up and settling of a
previously uninhabited area by the people.
4. Give 2 pictures of each :

 Organic settlements.

The organic process of settlement development refers to forces and pressures that are initiated
from within the settlement and squatter.

 Planned Settlements

A planned community, planned city or planned town, is any community that was
carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.
This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are less
frequent in these communities.
5. Give one picture of urban blight / visual blight & explain each.

 Urban Blight

Urban decay (also known as urban rot and urban blight) is the process by which a previously
functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.

 Visual Blight

Visual blight usually refers to run down buildings, things that make an area ugly or looking
unliveable.. Blight can mean diseased (certain plant diseases are called blights).
Another example could be something like an ugly concrete building, all gray and brown and
dirty looking, in the middle of an otherwise beautiful forest. It's something you don't want to
see.
Reference :

https://www.slideshare.net/gayathriselvasegar/human-settlements-78787732

https://www.google.com.ph/search?ei=uOWqW6XFA5rv-
QanyoSgBg&q=organic+settlement+pattern&oq=organic+settlement+&gs_l=psy-
ab.1.0.0j0i22i30k1l8.3027.3027.0.5547.1.1.0.0.0.0.68.68.1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-
ab..0.1.68....0.bPb4cMElrzY

http://www.doxiadis.org/ViewStaticPage.aspx?ValueId=4308

https://www.slideshare.net/HemantMishra8/doxiadis-ekistics-the-science-of-human-settlement

https://www.slideshare.net/hanenalesna/ekistics-49197636

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinos_Apostolou_Doxiadis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekistics