Knowledge society: Cultural and post-cultural questions and implications for an ekistics approach

The author graduated in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), obtained his M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1970, with postgraduate studies in Business Management from the Athens School of Commercial Studies in 1972 and obtained his Ph. D from the Université Paris IX-Dauphine (1976-1978). He is a member of 20 scientific associations and committees including the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented by the author at the international symposion on " Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.