“Ecumenopolis is under way, but we lack the overall concept and the courage to guide Ecumenopolis rather than just letting it happen by chance and necessity.”

—  Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 15, Ecumenopolis, p. 232

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