ABSTRACT
As far as I can discover no Christian theologian developed the natural theologies implicit in Le Corbusier and Wright as a Christian response to the city Those who might have been inclined were occupied on other fronts: philosophy of religion (with analytical approaches to the natural theology they believed evident in Thomas)17 and the relationship between science and religion. But architects and visionary urban planners did still continue to stress the correlation between the natural, the spiritual and the technological. Of the more sobre and academic of them, Constantinos Doxiadis developed his science of human settlements, named Ekistics, which was based upon the relationship between the dynamic growth of settlements and what ‘we in Nature and in the evolution taking place in many organisms’ experience (Doxiadis: 1968, 376). He spoke about how the large urban developments would, over time, become a Dynamegalopolis and this would then become an ecumenopolis, a universal city characterised by happiness, safety, and a balance between the organic and the mechanical.
