Integral City (Book 1), Edition 2
Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive
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How are we evolving the human hive? 60% of humanity now lives in cities. Can city dwellers, like bees who pollinate the fields, act so intelligently that they add value to the planet? How can the clash of differences that separate people, purpose, profits, and priorities generate fresh energy to solve 21st-century VUCA problems? How do we propagate new pathways for community learning and give the 4 Voices of the city fresh hope?
For City Leaders, Business/Innovators, the 3rd Sector and Citizens, this book proposes 5 sets of City Intelligences: Contexting, Individual, Collective, Strategic, and Evolutionary. It explores a new paradigm that senses, experiences, relates, and co-creates in--with and as the city--using an Integral consciousness.
Integral City recalibrates city intelligences with the Master Code of Care--for Self, Others, Place, and Planet. Its life-giving strategies reveal cities as Gaia's Reflective Organs, evolving futures in space.
Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolution Biologist wrote:Marilyn Hamilton was an early researcher of Integral frameworks. Integral City Edition 2 is a significant application of the Integral model to the city scale of human systems. With more than 60% of humanity now living in cities, I recommend you learn how Integral City gives us critical intelligences to evolve the human hive.
Ian Wight PhD, Associate Professor of City Planning, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba (ret) wrote:Integral City recalibrates city intelligences with the Master Code of Care—for Self, Others, Place and Planet. Its life-giving strategies reveal cities, as Gaia’s Reflective Organs, evolving futures in space.
Every city can enhance its own health with the unique and wonderful tools of this book and its field book, which enable readers to go deeply into, and thus truly understand, their city’s collective human psyche along with its physical infrastructure and thus to move forward in the way of genuine living entities. Read this book, share it with every ally you can, take it to your City Hall and get moving. There is a better world for us all ahead!
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Co-author of Integral Ecology; Founder MetaIntegral; Exec. Editor Journal of Integral Theory and Practice; and Past Chair of the Integral Theory Department at John. F. Kennedy University wrote:. . . a veritable eco-city planning and design manifesto for anyone whose business touches on any aspect of city-making, city-managing and city-sustaining.
Integral City provides an important vision that promises to allow both people and planet to flourish. With the meta-framework presented here, Marilyn Hamilton joins and extends the integrative tradition of Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford, and Jane Jacobs. In particular she helps us understand the myriad connections between behavioral and systemic dimensions of urban landscapes with the psychological and cultural aspects.
