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Introduction To Urban & Regional Planning
Introduction To Urban & Regional Planning
Session 2
Ekistics – The role of humans in settlements and how it affects ecology
PART 1
• Discussions - Enumerate three ways in which humans
affect the world through resource consumption. Explain
its boon (advantage) and bane (disadvantage). Each of the
three items must be explained in no more than three
sentences.
• The Anthropocene (Humans as catalysts of urbanization
& development)
PART 2
• Ekistics
REFERENCES FOR THIS SESSION
DOBBINS on livability
Chapter 3 - Dobbins, Michael “Urban Design and People” John Wiley and Sons. © 2009
KEY WORD:
planning
CITIES ARE ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS!
DOXIADIS on basics of settlements
According to Doxiadis, human settlement in itself is a system
composed of the following elements:
1) nature,
2) man,
3) society,
4) shells (that is, buildings),
5) and networks.
- Doxiadis
4
2
1
2 [ROOM] 3 [FAMILY HOME] the unit that 4 [GROUP OF 5 [CITY] THE POLIS
the space which belongs to the most immediate HOMES/SOCIAL UNIT] The largest and most complex unit
belongs to him members of his territory The fourth unit is a group of
alone, or is homes
shared under
certain
circumstances
with a few others
1. - What is Ekistics?
2. - What is morphogenesis? Connect this with Alessa and Chapin's study.
3. - How does ekistics help us study human civilizations?