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| Title: | | Ekistics (Οικιστική) | | Type: | | Electronic Journals | | URL: | | http://www.ekistics.org/INDEX.htm | | Description: | | The birth of the journal dates back to 1954 when C.A. Doxiadis and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
met in Delhi in connection with the first U.N. International Symposium on Housing and
Community Planning — Tyrwhitt was its Director and Doxiadis a distinguished
participant. They agreed there was need for a journal directly aimed at keeping architects
and planners in developing countries up to date with relevant professional expertise
elsewhere in the world. The following year they met again in London. Tyrwhitt had
joined the faculty of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Doxiadis had
contracted to prepare a five year National Housing Plan for the Government of Iraq. He
said he was prepared to finance a monthly bulletin of information useful to his staff
stationed in forty different locations in the Middle East. Tyrwhitt agreed to produce it
provided it would also be sent to U.N. housing and planning experts working in
developing countries, as she pointed out in a discussion with the current editor of the
Journal in early 1980. Thus Ekistics was born, though for its first two years it was called
Tropical Housing and Planning Monthly Bulletin. Its first number appeared in October
1955, with reprints of articles from other journals, and it gradually evolved into having
mostly original papers. | | ISSN: | | 0013-2942 | | Access Type: | | Open Access | | Publisher: | | Athens Center of Ekistics. Athens Technological Organization | | Subjects: | | Communities
Economic & Regional development
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