Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive - Softcover

Hamilton, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865716293 ISBN 13: 9780865716292

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Evolving city intelligences mesh, multiply and integrate all city capacities. This book makes courageous placemaking connections, opens up new relationship pathways, brings hope for solving intractable problems and shows how cities are learning. Integral City takes an evolutionary perspective for city resilience.

Chapters explore:
• 4 meta-maps for city wholeness
• Bio-psycho-cultural-social intelligences for city change
• 12 appreciative inquiries for evolutionary direction
• Meshworking strategies for city learning
• Integral Vital Signs Monitors for city wellbeing
• 12 sets of simple rules for complex adaptiveness

Integral City will appeal to anyone interested in creating conditions in which our cities can evolve intelligently beyond the challenges of the 21st century.

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is a “meshworker” and founder of Integral City, creating conditions for the evolution of healthy ecologies in people systems. She has over twenty-five years of international experience catalyzing urban community and organizational change and has written numerous books.

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About the Author

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is a "meshworker" and founder of Integral City, creating conditions for the emergence of healthy ecologies in people systems. She has over 25 years of international experience catalyzing community and organizational change and has written numerous books.

From the Back Cover

Evolving city intelligences multiply and integrate all city capacities

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton introduces powerful, new models that uncover the fractals within human nature and probe into the very "DNA" that shapes human groupings.
Dr. Don Beck, The Spiral Dynamics Group, Global Center for Human Emergence

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, 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 problems? Where do we grow the unexpected connections, that propogate new pathways for community learning and give city leaders and citizens fresh hope?

This book explores a new integral paradigm for cities that answers these questions. It traces the evolution of the city's systematic, strategic, social and systemic intelligences and shows planners, policy makers, citizens, civil society and environmentalists how to sense, experience, relate to and live in the city with an integral consciousness. Exploring the contexts of the city's geography, ecology and lifecycles, Integral City guides the reader on an integrated journey through the city's inner, outer, building and storytelling intelligences. Integral City recalibrates intelligences for life-giving evolution on earth and futures in space.

Chapters explore:
* 4 meta-maps for city wholeness
* 12 appreciative inquiries for evolutionary direction
* Bio-psycho-cultural-social intelligences for city change
* Meshworking strategies for city learning
* Integral Vital Signs Monitors for city wellbeing
* 12 sets of simple rules for complex adaptiveness

Integral City will appeal to anyone interested in creating conditions in which our cities can evolve intelligently beyond the challenges of the 21st century.

Marilyn Hamilton amazes us with the depth and breadth of her vision, her mastery of the integral paradigm, and her pragmatic suggestions for creating cities of the future.
Dr. Nancy Roof, Founding Editor, Kosmos Journal.

Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive is a powerful application of the "meta-theory" of integral philosophy. Steve McIntosh author of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution

...a veritable eco city-region planning and design manifesto for anyone whose business touches on any aspect of city-making, city-managing and city-sustaining. Ian Wight PhD, Associate Professor of City Planning, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is a "meshworker" and founder of Integral City, creating conditions for the emergence of healthy ecologies in people systems. She has over 25 years of international experience catalyzing community and organizational change and has written numerous books.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865716293
• ISBN 13: 9780865716292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352