Il progetto del mondo: Doxiadis, città e futuro, 1955-65 [A project for the world: Doxiadis and the city of the future, 1955-65]

Abstract

This book deals with the model of a future world-city, framing its birth and the circumstances that urged its author to envisage such an ambitious plan. Doxiadis’s Ecumenopolis, issued for the first time in 1961, results from an entanglement of practice and theoretical reflection. Conceived as the inevitable destiny humankind would have finally met, Ecumenopolis tells about a World that - in the aftermath of WWII - is searching for new spatial paradigms.