The Man and his Work
The kinetic fields define the distances people desire to cross in order to come together. How can we build a settlement that both brings people together in community and keeps them apart in their personal privacy? The role of the city is to give all people all possible connections in an organized way.
The two goals for the city of today should be freedom of movement in all directions and the total time-distance between any two destinations should be minimal.
CONSTANTINOS A. DOXIADIS
Constantinos Doxiadis is the first intellectual pioneer who has succeeded in reuniting human studies into an intelligible whole. Ekistics brings together the study of the manifold facets of human life and action in the natural setting of Man's environment in the Universe. This provides a practical meeting-ground for planners of human settlements, architects, engineers, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, psychologists, historians, biologists, geologists. Anyone who pursues any of these studies is, ipso facto, studying ekistics, and, on this common basis, we can think and act cooperatively. We owe this new possibility to Dinos's insight and enterprise. His work has been timely; its effects will endure, because they will continue to bear fruit.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE