“Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis [1913-1975], the visionary city planner whose concepts touched the lives of millions of people around the world, died yesterday in Athens, where he kept his home and headquarters. He was 62 years old.
“Mr. Doxiadis, who gained international prominence as one of the architects of Greece’s postwar reconstruction, was the head of Doxiadis Associates, an urban‐planning concern with offices all over the globe, including Washington.
“ ‘His preoccupation with urban sprawl, generated everywhere by population growth, led him to develop “ekistics,’ a multidisciplinary science of human settlement that brought together old and new methods for the sake of planning and rearranging cities. The term derived from the Greek word for house. ‘Aristotle said the goal of the city is to make man happy and safe,’ Mr. Doxiadis once said. ‘I can’t think of a better definition.’ ”