ecumenopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕkyo͞o'mĕnōpŏʹlĭtən
ipa: /ɛˌkjuːmɛnəʊˈpɒlɪtən/
homophone: Ecumenopolitan
Forms: form: œcumenopolitan
Etymology: From ecumenopolis + -ity + -an. First reliably attested in 1974: either, as from Ecumenopolitan, or a generalised use thereof, parallel with the development of ecumenopolis.
Senses: examples: text: […] “ecumenopolitan” formations.
ref: 1971: The Mastery of Urban Growth: Report of the International Colloquium, Brussels, 2–4 December 1969, page 47 (Mens en ruimte, M. plus R international)
text: Certainly the magnitude of megalopolitan or ecumenopolitan problems tends to overwhelm the individual who is a perspective participant.
ref: 1974, Spenser W. Havlick, The Urban Organism: The City’s Natural Resources from an Environmental Perspective, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 476, →ISBN:
text: ‘The ecumenopolitan concept’, said Professor Dix of Nottingham, apparently proposing the ‘dilution’ motion, ‘implies the better use of resources, perhaps a greater use of telecommunications and electronics, and properly planned transport systems. It means a better and more readily accessible countryside…’.
ref: 1976, “The Planner”, in Royal Town Planning Institute, volume 62, page 25:
text: In many, many areas on megalopolitan government, the next time a meeting of this sort gets together and begins to think basically, they are going to be talking about ecumenopolitan government and people are going to be saying: “Ecumenopolis, who needs it? Ecumenopolis, it doesn’t exist and never will.”
ref: 1976, Leman Group Inc, Great Lakes Megalopolis: From Civilization to Ecumenization, Ministry of State, Urban Affairs, Canada, →ISBN, page 97, →ISBN:
text: The very largest concentrations in the entire complex will have to be rescued from simply more sprawl, because suburbanization and exurbanization continue to bring added pressures on the core. The best way to do this, Doxiadis thought, is to engineer the establishment of new metropolitan areas at only a moderate distance away as nodes in a hierarchical pattern suitable to the ecumenopolitan phase of human history. Then, in an oracular manner looking even beyond the “world-spanning city,” Doxiadis saw mankind of the future even moving in the direction of an extraterrestrial Cosmopolis, “the city of the Cosmos.”⁵⁶
ref: 1979, Albert N. Cousins, Hans Nagpaul, Urban Life: The Sociology of Cities and Urban Society, Wiley, →ISBN, page 587, →ISBN:
text: While this is the scale which, for many, is still difficult to perceive or accept, there are a number of signs that such ecumenopolitan systems are very much in the making.¹⁰ The two world wars are but consequences of frictions arising between two or three near-global spatial/operational arrangements dating back to fifteenth and sixteenth century concepts and to the systems which such concepts spurred.
ref: 1980, International Journal for Housing Science and Its Applications, volume 4, Pergamon, page vi:
text: ⁽¹⁾ For the mid 1980s I estimate that at least one million adults belong to the ecumenopolitan stratum; several times as many are in the educational stream with ambitions to join them.
⁽²⁾ Iranians were graduated from North American universities with motivations that are virtually indistinguishable from their classmates, but their command of Asian languages and their entrepreneurship generates a backflow of ecumenopolitan commitments to Asia.
ref: 1987: J. F. Brotchie, Peter Geoffrey Hall, and Peter Wesley Newton [eds.], The Spatial Impact of Technological Change, pages 413⁽¹⁾ and 414⁽²⁾ (Croom Helm; →ISBN, 9780709950066)
text: 2007: Baleshwar Thakur, George Pomeroy, Chris Cusack, and Sudhir K Thakur [eds.], City, Society, and Planning, volume 1: “City”, page 16 (Concept Publishing Company; →ISBN
The prospective urban implies, therefore, ecumenopolitan order.
text: The modern suburb is a logical corollary of this fossil fuel powered narrative and expresses it in holographic detail. And its ascendancy continues: suburbs and their appurtenances mushroom at and between the fringes of the world’s metropolitan cores, following Doxiadess’ ecumenopolitan premonitions with the precision of a large oil spill […]
ref: 2007, Peter Droege, The Renewable City: A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 39, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or conducive to the development, befitting the scale, or characteristic of an ecumenopolis or ecumenopoleis.