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This study focused on Ekistics, the proposed science of human settlements by Constantinos A. Doxiadis in the 1960s, with reference to the current discussions in the field of knowledge, particularly the exponential growth in the amount of data. The conditions which led Doxiadis to found a new science of human settlements were discussed in a comparative manner to the current challenges scientists face today in the age of Big Data. Ekistics used the logic of the grid as an essential element in both construction and representation of the new science of human settlements. In the article, this new science was primarily considered as an effort to data-basing all human settlements that ever existed regardless of their scales, and it is argued that the logic of Ekistics fits better as a tool for analysis and documentation since it is very analytically constructed as a grid. Even though the grid logic corresponds to physical systems in the city, like roads or other infrastructural elements, abstract relationships between disciplines, or the flow of information, in Doxiadis' formulation, the grid remains a two-dimensional construct that presupposes linear advancement from analysis to production.

Turkey constitutes a country privileged with ekistics and cultural heritage of crucial interest that is linked to ancient civilizations. Over the past decades, the turkish government has been formatting and developing a protective institutional framework, concerning the preservation of its historical environment. However, the country has endured many political and economical alterations that have influenced the qualitative character of the monumental architecture, as well as the regional development of historical communities. Ôhis paper deals with the Greek's cultural heritage in Turkey today, targeting on the enhancement of strategic solutions that concern the symbiosis of the dualism of greek origin ekistics heritage and tourism development in the turkish territories. The methodology approach is achieved through bibliography and in situ research and analysis that have taken place during a scientific research program concerning the Greek's cultural presence in Asia Minor (17th- 20th centuries). In addition to that, a thorough examination is followed in the evaluation of the existing turkish and international institutional framework, regarding the protection of the Greek's ekistics and monumental heritage in Turkey. In this context, a series of strategic measures is proposed in order to preserve and enhance the cultural value and aesthetics of the Greek's heritage in Turkey today. The governmental administration and international legislation, the elimination of bureaucratic issues, the promotion of strategic planning on both urban and architectural level, as well as the encouragement of the interstate relations between Turkey and Greece, are some of the potential solutions highly underlined in this paper.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- About The Book -- Brief Description -- Key Features -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Part I: Habitat and Environmental Issues of Human Concerns -- Chapter 1: Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics: An Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Population and Resources -- 1.3 Human and Environment -- 1.4 Environment Management -- References -- Chapter 2: Contemporary Environmental Issues - The Indian Perspective -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Major Environmental Concerns in India -- 2.2.1 Environmental Pollution: Air, Noise and Water -- 2.2.1.1 Air and Noise Pollution -- 2.2.1.2 Water Pollution -- Surface Water Pollution -- Groundwater Pollution -- 2.2.2 Climate Change -- 2.2.3 Sea Level Rise -- 2.2.4 Waste Management and Circular Economy -- 2.3 Deforestation and Loss of Bio-diversity -- 2.4 Disaster: Natural and Man-Made -- 2.4.1 Natural -- 2.4.2 Man-Made -- 2.4.3 Disaster Preparedness -- 2.5 Land Degradation, Desertification and Soil Contamination -- 2.6 Loss of Wetland -- 2.7 Socio-economic Issues -- 2.7.1 Overpopulation and Depletion of Natural Resources -- 2.7.2 Urban Sprawl -- 2.7.3 Low per Capita Income in India -- 2.7.4 Public Health in India -- 2.8 Environmental Policy and Legislation -- 2.8.1 The National Environment Policy -- 2.8.2 Environmental Legislation -- 2.9 Existing Gaps in Present Practices -- 2.10 Role of Green Energy -- 2.11 Good Practices from Other Countries -- 2.12 New Opportunities -- 2.13 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Rainfall Insight in Bangladesh and India: Climate Change and Environmental Perspective -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Description of the Study Area -- 3.3 Database and Methodology -- 3.3.1 Autocorrelation Function (ACF) -- 3.3.2 Precipitation Concentration Index -- 3.3.3 Rainfall Seasonality Index (RSI) -- 3.3.4 Innovative Trend Analysis -- 3.3.5 Mann-Kendall Test.

The Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis belonged to the group of professionals and thinkers who challenged the quality of urban environment and living, as it had been evolved up to the mid of the 20th century. Doxiadis identified the need for revisiting policies in modern urban planning and he mobilized any available means –theory, practice, education and communication- towards this end. Providing his services as a government's consultant in several countries of the under-development world during the fifties and sixties, having established solid liaisons with distinguished Institutions in the U.S.A., having a remarkable portfolio of materialized projects with global impact and respectively a remarkable volume of written work, research and publications, having even created an Institute for postgraduate studies on the field, he went further beyond. He declared the necessity for a radical change in urban planning, by means of introducing a new scientific domain in the service of human settlements, that of Ekistics. The proposed paper aims to explore the idea of Ekistics, through its implementation at the Master Plan of Islamabad, or otherwise the City of the Future. Doxiadis was assigned to design the new Federal Capital of Pakistan and he seized the opportunity to launch Ekistics with this project of global magnitude –both Islamabad and Ekistics could be benefited from such a gesture. Ekistics transcended the strict boundaries of urban planning, as social, political and economic factors were also involved. It constituted a holistic approach, which aimed towards the balance of the five primal elements of human settlements, namely Nature, Man, Society, Shells and Networks. And it is not the agenda pursued by means of the modernist functional city that is abandoned, it is rather that changes in the processes followed can be observed. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

This article investigates the complex ties between planning, socio-political conflicts, and emerging Cold War geopolitics during the post-war reconstruction period in Greece, by focusing on the years between 1944 and 1947. In these crucial transitional years, transnational flows of expertise, interwar legacies, and political, scientific, and ideological contestations gave rise to novel planning ideas and antagonistic visions for the country's reconstruction and its future development path. The article sheds light on how the architect-planner Constantinos Doxiadis formulated Ekistics as a spatial vision, a mode of central planning, and a technical guide, examining how Ekistics affected the shaping of reconstruction policies, particularly in the countryside. This analysis further exposes the way the Greek countryside became the locus of competing visions of spatial development, as well as contradictory state responses: from long-term housing policies and self-help practices all the way to ideological repression and population resettlement strategies, British interventionism, and Civil War conflicts (1946–49) that paved the ground to Greece's subsequent US-led recovery programs under the Truman Doctrine (1947) and the Marshal Plan (1948–1952). By focusing on the paradigmatic case of Greece, this article advances an understanding of European reconstruction as an uneven, contested, and transitional process and highlights the implications of architecture and planning discourses and practices amid ideological, territorial, and geopolitical contestations.