“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.”
“We need to understand what we can do and how. Otherwise we will never do it.”
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis
“The realistic view of the City of the Future accepts that it will be a global city.”
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis
“The real city is the whole territory within which people move every day.”
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis
“Conclusion: Because humanity has entered a new era of science and industry, Ecumenopolis is as inevitable as the village after the agricultural revolution.”
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis
“Dimensions are not connected with the efficiency of the system; they simply make it more difficult.”
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis