Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes

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

The social aspect in city building is now completely overlooked.

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

When we build a city we must answer the most basic question as for any type of project: who is the master whom we have to serve?

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.

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

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

The real city is the whole territory within which people move every day.

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

We need to understand what we can do and how. Otherwise we will never do it.