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Please keep track of your sources; start collecting images, plans and drawings. If you can't access a certain source—let me know.

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Let's set up our projects (hopefully in Miro)

For each of the presentations, I would like to see:

1) a project's key image, with name, dates and location; show us where it is on the globe!

2) a three-sentence key description

3) a brief run-down of what happened, when, how; some background

4) the role of the United Nations: how, when and why the UN got involved

5) key moments in the project: how did the project develop, what happened

6) key people involved: UN officials, architects, planners, politicians, etc.

7) interesting facts, details, planning decisions, etc.

8) images, drawings, plans

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Sign up | Miro | The Visual Workspace for Innovation

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Miro is a visual workspace for innovation where teams manage projects, design products, and build the future together. Join 60M+ users from around the world.

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The goal of Ekistics as the study of human settlements, in

terms of dimensions, is to develop a system and a methodol-

ogy:

• to study all kinds of settlements, irrespective of size, loca-

tion, etc., in order to draw general conclusions about them;

• to study each as a whole, without excluding any of its ele-

ments in order to illuminate the knowledge of the field and

to solve the specific problems of the settlement under

study

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that housing should take a fair

share of U.N. budgeting resources, proportionate to

its gravity and significance, a special branch to be

established under the U.N. Secretariat and a pro-

gramme of action to be formulated for the remaining

period of the U.N. Development Decade

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-A magazine founded by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (editor) and C.A. Doxiadis

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In terms of outdoor recreation, the term ekistic relationship is used to describe one's relationship with the natural world and how they view the resources within it.

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"Ekistics starts with the premise that human settlements are susceptible of systematic investigation". Constantinos A. Doxiadis

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In order to create the cities of the future, we need to systematically develop a science of human settlements

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Human settlements consist of the five elements nature, man, society, shells and networks, which form a system conditioning the type and quality of our life.

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goal of increasing national income by 5 per cent annually; and to suggest criteria designed to provide guidance to Member States in the definition of the standards to be applied in their programs, taking in addition to physical targets, normative standards must also be explored, involving the fields of economics, law and public administration as they relate to environmental development

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It was funded by Doxiadis, who worked with the UN

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The study involved various disciplines, ranging from geography, ecology, human psychology, anthropology, culture, politics, and even aesthetics. It primarily relies on statistics and description to achieve its aim of harmony between inhabitants and their environments.

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-meetings of Committee should "give more specific drive and direction, more fire and imagination to future policies" (Reader p. 30/251, bottom)

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To avoid chaos as human settlements Evolve

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To avoid chaos as human settlements Evolve

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As the world population grows and we approach an ecumenopolis

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https://www.issuesofsustainability.org/helpndoc-content/EkisticGrid.html

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The Committee was of the opinion that the rapidly

increasing rate of urbanization was a world-wide

problem of great urgency, a problem that must

be met in urban and rural areas ali

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Goals and Standards for Housing Projects

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Goals and Standards for Housing Projects

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How is it connected to the UN discourse on Housing and Development?

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How is it connected to the UN discourse on Housing and Development?

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Housing, Building and Development Decade

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Housing, Building and Development Decade

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Committee on Housing, Building and Planning (Report of the First Session)

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Committee on Housing, Building and Planning (Report of the First Session)

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Committee on Housing Building and Planning Report on the First Session

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First Meeting on Housing and Urban Development

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First Meeting on Housing and Urban Development

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UN Committee on Housing, Building and Planning, 1965

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UN Committee on Housing, Building and Planning, 1965

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1963_Meeting of the Center on Housing and Planning

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"From answering service originally aimed at meeting specific request [...] into a centralised, self governing agency advocating a greater if mostly outbound, flow of expert"

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Technical Assistance Board
Technical Assistance Organization
United Nations Housing, Town and Country Planning (HTCP)

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-"Help lower-income groups" (main concern of Weissmann's)
-Promote international solidarity (also a concern of Weissmann's)
-Enable "affluent countries" to take part in the global economy

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"Officials from both Indonesia and the United States, for example, declared technical aid capable
of delivering a ‘hundredfold’ return"

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1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states

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WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

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WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

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to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20181122170313/http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/preamble/index.html

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

AND FOR THESE ENDS

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS

Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.

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WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINEDto save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, andto reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, andto establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, andto promote social progress and bett

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- following the Point 4 Programm of the Truman Administration in 1949

Belonging to the Department of Social Affairs and the Department of Economic Affairs.

The TAB was merged with the
Closed in 1959

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- Ernest Weissmann

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what was its mission, what were the implicit assumptions in its mission ? 

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what was its mission, what were the implicit assumptions in its mission ? 

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making abetter world with western know-how
economic development with social democratic policies

UN:
"The Technical Assistance Administration is responsible for the programme of technical assistance, which includes the operation and administration of the programmes authorized by General Assembly resolutions on advisory social welfare services, on training in public administration and on the United Nations programme of technical assistance for economic development of under-developed countries. In addition it is responsible for administering the United Nations Expanded Programme for Technical Assistance as approved by resolution of the Economic and Social Council (222(IX)). These programmes include the organization of technical assistance missions, the provision of expert advice, the award of fellowships and scholarships and the organization of demonstration projects, seminars, and training institutes."

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TWO DRIVES :
- charter : develop every other countries
- aim for peace by stabilising poorer regions

- multilateral
- knowledge exchange
- new form of (multilateral) diplomacy
- forming the policies of different states
- creating a hundredfold return

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Living a long and healthy life

Being educated

Having a decent standard of living

Having the freedom to participate in the life of one’s community

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Tyrwhitt_The Village Centre at the Exhibition on Low Cost Housing

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1954: First UN Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement. The Village Centre Exhibition. Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, the UN Technical Assistance Administration.

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1954: First UN Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement. The Village Centre Exhibition. Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, the UN Technical Assistance Administration.

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Jaqueline Tyrwhitt along with the Indian Government and the UN Technical Assistance Administration (TAA) construed the village as a medium for development.

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1954: first joint UN mission to the Gold Coast. Otto Koenigsberger, Charles Abrams and Vladimir Bodiansky.

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1954: first joint UN mission to the Gold Coast. Otto Koenigsberger, Charles Abrams and Vladimir Bodiansky.

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On the 23rd of March I960 the Government signed an agreement with Doxiadis Associates regarding the submission of a programme for the develoment of the Accra-Tema region.

The question is: What will be the population in the two towns of Tema and Accra in, say, twenty years time? It is estimated that this must exceed a million as against a present population of 415, 000.