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Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis coined the term "Ekistics" in 1942 to describe the science of human settlements. Ekistics concerns regional, city, and community planning as well as dwelling design, taking into account principles of how humans build settlements and their historical evolution in size and quality. The goal is to build optimally sized cities that respect human dimensions. Ekistics aims to study all scales of human habitation by examining archaeological, historical, and total settlement patterns.

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Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis coined the term "Ekistics" in 1942 to describe the science of human settlements. Ekistics concerns regional, city, and community planning as well as dwelling design, taking into account principles of how humans build settlements and their historical evolution in size and quality. The goal is to build optimally sized cities that respect human dimensions. Ekistics aims to study all scales of human habitation by examining archaeological, historical, and total settlement patterns.

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PP – EKISTICS

Jay Doshi
Roll No: 1607
SEMESTER- X

The term Ekistics was coined by Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos
Apostolos Doxiadis in 1942.
Ekistics concerns the science of human settlements, including regional,
city, community planning, and dwelling design. This science, termed Ekistics, will
take into consideration the principles man takes into account when building his
settlements, as well as the evolution of human settlements through history in
terms of size and quality. The target is to build a city of optimum size, that is, a
city that respects human dimensions. According to Doxiadis to create the cities
of the future, we need to systematically develop a science of human settlements.
Ekistics 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.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EKISTICS

Maximization of human potentials –in a certain area, man will select the location
which permits a maximum of potential contact
Minimization of efforts –a minimum of effort, terms of energy, time, and cost
man selects the most convenient routes
Optimization of man’s protective space
Optimization of man’s relationship with his environment
Optimization of four previous principles

CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS


• By Ekistics Units
• By Ekistics Elements
• By Evolutionary Phases
• By Factors & Disciplines
CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS BY EKISTICS UNITS:
Minor shells or elementary units- Man, room, house
Micro-settlements- units smaller than, or as small as, the traditional town
where people used, do & still do achieve interconnection by walking
Meso-settlements- between traditional town & conurbation within which one
can commute daily
Macro-settlements- whose largest possible expression is the Ecumenopolis

CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS BY EKISTICS ELEMENTS

CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS BY EVOLUTIONARY PHASES


Macroscale- nomadic, agricultural, urban, urban industrial;
Micro scale- specific area at a limited period.

CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS BY FACTORS & DISCIPLINE

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