Top 15 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.

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.

The big mistake most commonly made today is that when we speak of transportation we think only of persons and goods. We forget the existence of water, clean or otherwise, moving in pipes, of gas, oil, electricity, messages, the telephones etc. The result is that we waste a lot of space and Networks.

Our Networks are not unified.

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.

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

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.

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

we forget that the polis, no matter whether old or new, has its own dimensions and its own scale; and if we impose on it solutions corresponding to larger scales, we do it a lot of harm and we destroy all its values.

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.

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

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

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.

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