Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes

We now open our eyes, we see the explosion, we understand the confusion and its causes, we have an exact diagnosis of our disease and we can begin the therapy, not by nervous and uncoordinated magical solutions, but by properly conceiving and trying to build the Entopia we badly need.

Ecumenopolis is under way, but we lack the overall concept and the courage to guide Ecumenopolis rather than just letting it happen by chance and necessity.

We should never forget that values of the past are first overlooked when a change is necessary, but later they are understood and re-established.

Conclusion: Because humanity has entered a new era of science and industry, Ecumenopolis is as inevitable as the village after the agricultural revolution.

If we have the most perfect neighborhoods without proper connections between them we do not have a city, but nomadic life in a jungle.

The fact that the super-markets and super shops have developed and serve wider areas of tens of thousands of people does not mean that we do not need smaller ones.

We now have several hundred metropolises and they all suffer in many ways from many problems because they have not been foreseen and properly conceived.

Dimensions are not connected with the efficiency of the system; they simply make it more difficult.

When people like Genghis Khan tried to speed up the rhythm and conquer and organize a continent in a few generations, they did not create a synthesis, they only courted disasters.

When we place all these extraordinary achievements together, however we can see where we have failed: by bringing together all the elements of progress into a meaningless and inhuman system of life.

If we do not understand furniture we cannot understand the city,

When we speak of quality and desirability it is not the question of one unit, but of the whole system.

From the balance of the past, we have been lea to the great injustice of the present.

To the right I see the forces which lead to dystopia. It is the big corporation which built the tower on top of the small hill which tells me: "Fly ABC Fortresses!" Airplanes have to be built like fortresses to avoid skyjacking attacks by the passengers.

I begin with the clarification that I consider Society as a total system of relationships between people which are either visible or invisible and which form networks.