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This “father of ekistics” outlined statistical laws of human settlement development, including the principle that all communities are hierarchically connected. For 10 points each:
[10h] What Greek architect designed Sadr City, Riyadh, and Islamabad and assisted Skopje’s rebuilding after a 1963 earthquake? His son wrote the math-themed books Logicomix and Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture.
ANSWER: C. A. Doxiadis [or K. A. Doxiadis; or Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis; accept Apostolos Doxiadis]
[10e] Doxiadis’s settlement hierarchy incorporates Jean Gottmann’s concept of the megalopolis, as exemplified by European corridors named for golden, green, and blue varieties of this food.
ANSWER: bananas [accept plantains or Musa spp.; accept Blue Banana, Banane bleue, Blaue Banane, Blauwe banaan, or banana blu; accept Green Banana or Golden Banana]
[10m] For the urban stage below megalopolis, Doxiadis adopted this term coined by Patrick Geddes for metropolitan areas of 3 to 10 million people. This term describes Europe’s Randstad and polycentric Ruhrgebiet (“ROOR-guh-beet”).
ANSWER: conurbations
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Columbia ARutgers010010E
Columbia BWaterloo010010E
CornellIndiana0000
Georgia Tech BPurdue0000
HarvardGeorgia Tech A010010E
Illinois AJohns Hopkins0000
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NYU BMIT010010E
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SwarthmoreChicago A010010E
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