DOXIADIS Town Planning PresentationIntroduction Constantinos A Coxials (also Konstantinos 14 May 1813 = 28 June 1975), often cited as C-A. Doxiodis, was « Greek architect and town planner. He was known as the lead erchitect of Ismabad, the new Capital of Pakistan in the 1860s, andlater as the father of kits, hich concerns the science of human settlements, Doxiadis is the father of Ekstics, which concems the science of human settlements, including regional, city, community planning ‘and dwelling design. The term was coined by Doxlocis in 1842 and ‘a major incentive for the davelapment of the science is the emergence of increasingly large and complex settlements, tending 10 ragional canurbattions and even to 6 worldwicle city. However, ‘ekistics attempts to encompass all scoles of human habitation ‘and seeks to learn from the archaeological and historical record bylooking not only at great cities, but, as much as possible, at the total settlement pattern. Doxiads also coined the terrn‘entopia, coming from the Greek wore éy (in) and rare place’), He quoted ‘What human beings ‘need is not utopia (no place’) but entopia (in place) a rea city which they con build place which satisfies the dreamer ands ‘occeptoble to the scientist, a place where the projections of the ‘omtist and the builder merge"Life and Career. ed Ee Doxiadis was born on 14 May 1913, He graduated in architectural engineering from the Technical University of Athens in 1935, obtaining a doctorate from Charlottenburg University. He was appointed Chief Town Planning, Officer for the Greater Athens Area. He founded Doxiadis Associates, a private firm of consulting engineers, which grew rapidly until it had offices on five continents and projects in 40 countries. Works. (Wescmee ono Aspra Spitia. ir Ciiicerce Peroneuces eeEkistics. () Aesthetics Social sciences er ee) \ pomledl Administrative: sciences ACCORDING TO DOXIADIS ~ In order to create the cities ofthe future, we need to systematically develop o science of human settlements. ‘The term ‘Ekistics' was coined by Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis in 1942 +Ekistics concerns the science of human settlements. It co-ordinates economics, social sciences, political and administrative sciences, technology and aesthetics into coherent whole (sticking together) and leads to the creation of a new type of human settlement. It is the scinece which illuminates problems of human settlements and defines the way which architecture: must go. This science, termed Ekisties, will take into onsideration The principles man takes into aecount when building his settlements The evolution of human settlements through history in terms of size and quality. ‘The target is to build the city of optimum size; that is, a city Which respects human dimensions. Since there is no point in resisting development, we should try to accommodate technological evolution and the needs of man within the same settlementCLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS > boat n UaL) 4 aclee DisciplinesEhistic Unite no = z =) on = = a x iT) Minor Shells Man(antrrop. Nature Micro Settlements elise aE Shells Society sido achieve interconnection by woking titre Meso Settlements | Network Anthropos RLS aT Whose largest possible oxprestion ie the ecumenspliDust Cinetong Nomadic Urban Urban IndustrialIslamabad Islamabad, the new Capital of Pakistan. Planned by Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Doxiadis Associates in the late 1950s, Is now a fast-growing city of about 15 milion inhabitants. Forming, together with the adjacent old city of Rawalpindi and a National Park, « Metropolitan Area (Greater islamabad/Rawalpind Area) of about 45 milion inhabitants. he greater area of the capital, the metropolitan area, has been planned for a future population of about 2,500,000 inhabitants within a petiod of two generations Planned in the period, 1859-63 on the basis of Ekisties", Doxiadis! “Science of human settlements Islamabad is being developed fully respecting the “Doxiadis Plan’ ‘A new Capital for Pakistan was necessary following the independence of India in 1847 Gnd the inevitable partition into Indio cond Pakistan, « Various solutions were proposed for the location of the new capital from 1947 to1959 when the final decision was reached.(ell meiAeM cue icolal ee a ORC aD Islamabad is planned according to a hierarchical system of ‘communities of various classes. ‘These communities are properly served by a major transportation system developed within wide corridors of a gridiron configuration, surrounding and defining the higher class Local and collector iow speed roads, wide sidewalks, pedestrian roads and bicycles lanes within the lower class “human. communities” provide access to the major transportation system. The Islamabad Metropolitan Area is composed of Islamabad, the old city of Rawalpindi and the National Park. The latter is «hilly area, containing two large lakes, the National Sports Centre, the National University and the National Research Centre, Four major interurban roads delineate the above three major components of the Metropolitan Area, ‘The overall plan Is based on the “dynametropalis” concept, giving the possibilty of continuous expansion with the least possible adverse effects in trattic and, generally, in the functioning of the Metropolis.The master plan and the dynametropolis concept aaasxeImThe backbone of the Islamabad Metropolitan Area Master Plan Is formed by two highways slamabad Highway and 2Murree Highway, the alignment of which was dictated by the natural landscape pattem Formation of the Metropolitan Area : The principal system of axes Inthe metropolitan area of islamabad defines three distinctive areas: . the area of Islamabad proper. the area of Rawalpindi, the center of which is the city of Rawalpindi «the National Park area which will retain certain agricultural Islamabad will be the capital of the nation and will serve mainly ‘administrative and cultural functions, Rawalpindi will remain the regional center serving industrial and ‘commercial functions thas been designed on the basis of the ideal city of the future ‘and to form a dyna-metropolis. Each is planned to develop dynamically towards the south-west, ‘thelr center cores growing simultaneously and together with their residential and other functions The Present Situation The Metropolitan Area of islamabad has today a total population of some 45 milion inhabitants, 18 milion in Islamabad and 3.0 milion in Rawalpindi itis no more isolated from the business and commercial activities.the increasing economic activities have given birth to high rise building. Residential apartments, housing schemes, educational institutions, industrial units and new markets. Islamabad Is a unique example of a large new city ‘Planned for ‘the future and built for the present; fully respecting the Iong term planning,