Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive

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.

Marilyn Hamilton is Founder of Integral City Meshworks and author of the Integral City Book Series-Book 1-Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, Book 2-"Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive" and Book 3-"Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia's Human Hives." Marilyn produced the Integral City 2.0 Online Conference 2012 and was Guest Editor/Curator for Integral Leadership Review-Canada Issue, January-February, 2015. A city evolutionist, prAQtivist, author, researcher, and academic, Marilyn co-creates a global constellation of Integral City Meshworkers, Learning Lhabitats, Peer Associations, and City Institutes. She incubates resilience and transformation strategies with Civic Leaders, Civil Society, Business and Community Voices that enable the Human Hive-Gaia's Most Reflective Organ-to balance Place Caring with Place Making. She and her teams have been guiding cities for over 20 years, to develop long term visions, values and missions, organizational capacities, and the strategies to improve city well-being that looks after Self, Other, Place, and Planet. www.integralcity.com Tw: @integralcity Blog: marilyn.integralcity.com