TY - JOUR AU - Fookes, Tom W. PY - 2002/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Success of the City in the 21st Century: Some thoughts arising from presentations JF - Ekistics and The New Habitat JA - EKISTICS VL - 69 IS - 415-417 SE - Scholary Articles DO - 10.53910/26531313-E200269415-417364 UR - https://ekisticsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/364 SP - p. 348 AB - <p>Dr Fookes is an Associate Professor in the Planning Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked variously through the past 36 years as a geographer-planner, academic, environmental impact assessor, policy analyst, and professional planner. A defining moment in his career path was the two years spent as a student with C.A. Doxiadis at the Athens Center of Ekistics in Greece. As a consequence he has carried through the principles and practices developed in Athens into his professional life. Dr Fookes is leading research and development on Ekistics in Education, and he is currently Vice-President of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of some of the thoughts he presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.</p> ER -