Marielle Joyce U.

Morano
 Coined by Greek architect and urban
planner Kostantinos Apostolos Doxiadis
Applies to the science of settlements
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 settlememnt
pattern
 Homogeneous parts -fields
Central parts - build-up villages
Circulatory parts - roads and paths within
the fields
Special parts monastery contained
within the homogeneous part
 Maximization of human potentials
Minimization of efforts
Optimization of mans protective space
Optimization of mans relationship with
his environment
Optimization of four previous principles
 Based on sizes
Based on location of settlements
Based on physical forms
Based on five elements of human
settlements
Based on functions
Based on time dimension
Based on degree of societys conscious
involvement in settlements creation
Based on institutions, legislations, and
administrations
 Small and sparsely spaced rural
settlements or villages specializing in
agriculture
large and closely spaced urban
settlements specializing in secondary
and tertiary activities
 Plains

Mountains

coastal
 Forms as the expression of content,
function, and structure
 Nature

Man

Society

Shells

Networks
 Which are important to an understanding
of the meaning and role of settlement:
Reveal nature, specialization, and main reason
of settlements
Based on activity, their performance, or special
role
 Age of settlements, their place in
continuum, their relative static of
dynamic character, the whole process of
their growth