Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes

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

The realistic view of the City of the Future accepts that it will be a global city.

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.

My conclusion is that today we are in chaos as far as the metropolis is concerned and do not do anything in the right direction.

We should not forget that the value of seeing lies in the information capacity of vision.

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

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

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.

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 do not understand furniture we cannot understand the city,

The social aspect in city building is now completely overlooked.

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.

At present the machines are in control and no human values are respected.

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.

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.