Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science of human settlements, including city or community planning and design.
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- noun the
scientific study ofhuman settlements , and theplanning anddesign ofcities and othercommunities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of course this will require more of a simulationist bent to a virtual world computational or online ekistics?
Computational Social Science and the Problem With Hakkar’s Blood 2007
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Personally I'm looking forward to being able to seeing what different civic models emerge once we support those beyond the static "guild" system, and of being able to study a wide variety of phenomena under the little-known umbrella of ekistics in ways that simply cannot be approached in the physical world.
Computational Social Science and the Problem With Hakkar’s Blood 2007
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One useful antecedent for MMOG studies (as opposed to the more general and problematic 'game studies') could be ekistics (see also this link among others), which has been called "the study of human settlements."
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