ESKISTICKS

Definition :- Ekistics concerns the science of human

settlements, including regional, city, community planning
and dwelling design. 
  In order to create the cities of the future, we need
to systematically develop a science of human settlements.

 Ekistics is descriptive study of all kinds of human

settlements.

 It aims achieving inhabitants of a settlement and their

physical and socioculture environment

 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.
 
DOXIADIS THEORY OF ESKISTICS
 C.A DOXIADIS
CONSTANTINOS APOSTOLU DOXIADIS {C.A DOXIADIS}
BIRTH : 14 MAY 1913
DIED : 28 JUNE 1975

GREEK ARCHITECT AND TOWN PLANNER

 WAS KNOWN AS LEAD ARCHITECT OF ISLAMABAD

 LATER HE WAS NAMED AS FATHER OF EKISTICS.

 DOXIADIS PROPOSED EKISTICS AS A SCIENCE OF C.A. DOXIADIS PRESENTING HIS FIRST IDEAS
ON THE MASTERPLAN OF ISLAMABAD -
HUMAN SETTLEMENT AND OUTLINED ITS SCOPE, FEB 1960

AIMS, INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK AND

RELEVANCE. 
THE PRINCIPLES
ACCORDING TO DOXIADIS
“In shaping his settlements, man has always acted in obedience to five principles. As far as I know, this has always been true, and I
myself have not found any cases which prove the opposite”.

THE FIRST PRINCIPLE

 MAXIMIZATION OF MAN'S POTENTIAL
CONTACTS WITH THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE
(SUCH AS WATER AND TREES), WITH OTHER
PEOPLE, AND WITH THE WORKS OF MAN (SUCH AS
BUILDINGS AND ROADS). THIS, AFTER ALL,
AMOUNTS TO AN OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF
PERSONAL HUMAN FREEDOM.
 MAN ALWAYS MAKES WITH HIS MAN MADE
ENVIORNMENT .
 NO MATTER WEATHER HE IS DEALING WITH A
PERSON IN A NEIGHBOURHOOD OR ANY DOMESTIC
ANIMALS OR TREES OE EITHER HE IS DEALING
WITH HOUSES OR ROADS.
 THE SECOND PRINCIPLE

 MINIMIZATION OF THE EFFORT REQUIRED FOR THE

ACHIEVEMENT OF MAN'S ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL CONTACTS

 HE ALWAYS GIVES HIS STRUCTURES THE SHAPE, OR SELECTS THE

ROUTE, THAT REQUIRES THE MINIMUM EFFORT, NO MATTER
WHETHER HE IS DEALING WITH THE FLOOR OF A ROOM, WHICH
HE TENDS TO MAKE HORIZONTAL, OR WITH THE CREATION OF A
HIGHWAY.
 THE THIRD PRINCIPLE
OPTIMIZATION OF MAN'S PROTECTIVE SPACE, WHICH
MEANS THE SELECTION OF SUCH A DISTANCE FROM
OTHER PERSONS, ANIMALS, OR OBJECTS THAT HE
CAN KEEP HIS CONTACTS WITH THEM (FIRST
PRINCIPLE) WITHOUT ANY KIND OF SENSORY OR
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCOMFORT

 MAN HAS TO KEEP A SPECIFIC DISTANCE FROM

OUR ENVIORNMENT SUCH THAT HE COULD
COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS .
 HE SHOULD ALSO MAINTAIN HIS SPACE SO HE
SHOULD GET HIS COMFORT .
 WHILE DESIGNING A SOCIETY WE KEEP A SPECIFIC
DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO HOUSES.
 THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE
 OPTIMIZATION OF THE QUALITY OF MAN'S
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS ENVIRONMENT, WHICH
CONSISTS OF NATURE, SOCIETY, SHELLS (BUILDINGS
AND HOUSES OF ALL SORTS), AND NETWORKS
(RANGING FROM ROADS TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS).

 THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE THAT LEADS TO

ORDER,PHYSIOLOGICAL AND AESTHETIC, AND THAT
INFLUENCESARCHITECTURE AND, IN MANY
RESPECTS, ART.
 THE FIFTH PRINCIPLE
FINALLY, AND THIS IS THE FIFTH PRINCIPLE,
MAN ORGANIZES HIS SETTLEMENTS IN AN
ATTEMPT TO ACHIEVE AN OPTIMUMSYNTHESIS
OF THE OTHER FOUR PRINCIPLES.

THIS OPTIMIZATION IS DEPENDENT ON TIME

AND SPACE, ON ACTUAL CONDITIONS, AND ON
MAN'S ABILITY TO CREATE A SYNTHESIS.

WE SPEAK OF "SUCCESSFUL HUMAN

SETTLEMENTS".WHAT WE MEAN IS SETTLEMENTS
THAT HAVE ACHIEVED A BALANCE BETWEEN MAN
AND HIS MAN-MADE ENVIRONMENT,
BYCOMPLYING WITH ALL FIVE PRINCIPLES.

THANK YOU BY: PRATHMESH VILAS JOSHI