5 Theories of Planning · 5.1 Theories of planning and planning thinkers

5.1.4 Le Corbusier and Doxiadis: Chandigarh, Gandhinagar, Islamabad and Ekistics

Le Corbusier gave modernist planning its rigid grid, tall blocks and separated functions, realised in Chandigarh; Doxiadis created Ekistics, the science of human settlements, and planned Islamabad as a "Dynapolis" that grows in one direction.

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  • Le Corbusier
  • Chandigarh
  • sector
  • 7Vs
  • Capitol Complex
  • Albert Mayer
  • Nowicki
  • Gandhinagar
  • Mewada
  • Apte
  • Doxiadis
  • Ekistics
  • Dynapolis
  • Ecumenopolis
  • Islamabad
  • Athens Charter
  • CIAM

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