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Sparkies[0] = '<i>The bee is also wired to time its course of learning in advantageous ways, so that it learns color and shape before landing and landmarks afterwards....This innate "preparation" for learning runs counter to traditional psychological notions, which stress flexibility of the learning process.</i>';
Sparkies[1] = '<i>The city\'s sustainability is directly related to the city\'s intelligence.</i>';
Sparkies[2] = 'If we were able to examine the city like a PET scan or MRI scan does a brain, we would see that intentional intelligence is constantly being turned on and off, energized in different centers, and that intelligence is widely distributed.';
Sparkies[3] = 'A growing body of research is demonstrating that consciousness has not arisen from the interaction of matter and energy, but that matter and energy have emerged from and with consciousness itself .';
Sparkies[4] = 'Now, we are gaining faint glimpses of the strong possibility that the universe itself is conscious and we are just beginning to grasp that our relationship to that vast sea of consciousness is that we are expressions of it, with capacities to witness it, channel it, and perhaps even expand it.';
Sparkies[5] = '... each person knows their own and/or others\' subjective interior through phenomenological ways of knowing &mdash; that is through self-observation and inquiry of the content of one\'s thoughts and feelings that inform one about reality.';
Sparkies[6] = 'The subjective space can also be observed from the outside through structural lenses that ... organize the content of subjective experience on ladder\'s of inference that remain largely invisible to the person using them, but which are observable by a third person studying them.';
Sparkies[7] = 'Both our inner ways of knowing (phenomenology) and outer ways of knowing (structuralism) create the mental models and maps of our subjective experience of life in the city.';
Sparkies[8] = 'The value of examining the intentional, subjective quadrant of a single life is that it gives us the container to appreciate the emergent qualities of consciousness, particularly as they relate to attention and intention.';
Sparkies[9] = 'Ultimately all attention and intention in the city is experienced at the level of the individual. It is only aggregated into political will through the coordination of multiple individuals';
Sparkies[10] = 'Like children who act without awareness that their individual actions impact others, we fail to recognize that individual emotions, thoughts, talents and spirituality impact the other quadrants of behaviors, cultures and social systems in the city in a deep and lasting way.';
Sparkies[11] = 'A city which can merely feed, clothe and shelter its citizens lacks the intelligence to sustain itself, because the intelligence for sustainability comes from a commitment to learning about self, others and our shared life conditions.';
Sparkies[12] = 'Learning arises from the endless interaction of attention and intention at ever increasingly complex scales of observation.';
Sparkies[13] = 'As one learns to manage and then learningfully lead self, other, context, and system, one becomes of necessity increasingly attentive and increasingly intentional.';
Sparkies[14] = 'A person who has higher capacities of emotional, mental and spiritual intelligences has the potential to contribute to many complex social holons, including families, groups, teams, organizations and communities.';
Sparkies[15] = 'Each person\'s attention and intention has a developmental "center of gravity" that provides a potential to contribute to the resilience of the city.';
Sparkies[16] = 'At any given time, an individual consciousness is influenced by the body\'s energetic states of waking, sleeping, dreaming or meditating.';
Sparkies[17] = '... an individual consciousness is highly dynamic. Its awareness is measurable by the development levels of multiple lines of intelligence and accessible depending on its energetic and change states.';
Sparkies[18] = 'The influence each person has on another and on any groups depends very much on their "center of gravity" of developmental levels and lines.';
Sparkies[19] = 'When a person has mastered key lines of intelligence to the same center of gravity ... they will have a tendency to "hold steady" at that center of gravity under most life conditions; in other words, they will be resilient in those life conditions.';
Sparkies[20] = '... the wisdom of crowds can come from the highest levels of capacity in individuals, along with the creative influence individuals have on one another to discover and innovate new consciousness from the interplay of open minds.';
Sparkies[21] = 'Until very recently, individuals rarely questioned the purpose of their contribution to life in the city and/or never realized that collective life in the city might have a purpose.';
Sparkies[22] = 'In the history of the city, human systems have too rarely asked, what ought to be the conscious intention of citizens (or even what is the conscious duty of citizens)?';
Sparkies[23] = 'In the developed world (in most capitalist and socialist systems), education of the individual has become an entitlement seemingly disconnected from the purpose of human life.';
Sparkies[24] = 'The beauty of this bee world is that it not only feeds the hive, but it sustains the environment that feeds the bees (through their pollination of plants and flowers). It appears to be an elegant self-sustaining system, in which the built-in purpose shapes the bees\' behaviors, structures and culture.';
Sparkies[25] = 'For a city to function optimally, its citizens need to practise, manage and lead from a sense of purpose in their collective lives. Such an awareness could coalesce the intention of all learning systems with the relevant application of resources in the city.';
Sparkies[26] = 'From an intentional perspective, the purpose of the city could be to optimize the wellbeing of citizens at every level of development.';
Sparkies[27] = 'Using the integral model, we might postulate that wellbeing is equal parts subjective and intersubjective experience and objective and interobjective action for the individual in the context of shared city life conditions.';
Sparkies[28] = 'The purpose of a city is the achievement of what its citizens can manifest together, that would not be possible if they attempted it on their own.';
Sparkies[29] = 'In the most vibrant cities this achievement would be the emergent outcome of individual intelligences optimizing sustainable outcomes for themselves as well as the collectives to which they belong (including the city as a whole).';
Sparkies[30] = 'As the city\'s purpose responds to increased complexity over time, it will change &mdash; and what it contributes and how it adds value to the world will also change.';
Sparkies[31] = 'The larger the city the more likely it will span a wider and wider spectrum of individual purposes; ghettoes of differing purposes and intentions will emerge and the demands of governance will need to address these discontinuities.';
Sparkies[32] = '... the importance for city hall to have clarity about its citizens\' values, intentions and purposes is vital to achieving the city\'s optimal performance as a social holon.';
Sparkies[33] = 'In the history of the city, the relationships that people have had with their key values (a.k.a. purpose) has evolved over time, as have the commensurate structures, cultures and behaviors in the city that have developed to support these values.';
Sparkies[34] = 'As conscious beings, humans use their observations, feelings, thoughts and wants to derive the values that become purpose driven. From these values emerge mindsets, worldviews, and paradigms.';
Sparkies[35] = '... as cities have arisen all over the world, they have evolved to meet key human needs and purposes, across a spectrum of complexity.';
Sparkies[36] = 'The rise of the city required some form of governance to address and solve the issues of survival, relationships and power in large, spatially confined populations.';
Sparkies[37] = '... once the values and needs of survival, relationships and power were addressed by intentional governance systems, this set the stage for the emergence of new capacities related to authority and standards; achievement and results; caring and sharing; flex and flow; and global mindfulness';
Sparkies[38] = 'As each city evolved within the petrie dish of its geographic/biologic life conditions, it tended to evolve unique manifestations of the spectrum of values held by its citizens.';
Sparkies[39] = 'The realities and natural delays of intentions communicated and delivered at the surface level of the earth, allowed for gradual assimilation of change that affected individuals and groups (and city governance).';
Sparkies[40] = 'Today in countries which encouraged large scale immigration (or were target destinations because of war and/or natural disaster), cities contain such a mix of cultures ... that the attention of the individual citizen is largely unfocused (but over stimulated) and the intention is obscured (to protect source culture).';
Sparkies[41] = '... we are at a stage of history where the misalignment of attention and intention in the city is rampant and growing.';
Sparkies[42] = 'Decision makers who failed to align the impacts of their open immigration policies with city, state and nation now have the evidence that such coherence is desperately needed.';
Sparkies[43] = 'In the history of the modern city in the developed world, public schooling emerged to serve the rise of the industrial revolution and the location of industrial production within the city.';
Sparkies[44] = 'At the beginning of the twenty-first century, now that the complexity of the city must address such a mass and mix of individuals with attentions and intentions influenced by such a mosaic of cultures, the purpose of the city is not clearly defined.';
Sparkies[45] = 'Ironically, we live at a time where the lack of conscious purpose at the scale of the individual and the scale of the city create ricochets of side effects.';
Sparkies[46] = '... now more than ever the very sustainability of our cities is intimately dependent on the intelligence and intentions of its citizens. In order to attain the former we must address the latter.';
Sparkies[47] = 'On a group level, the scale of homelessness in cities may also be an indication, not about what structures and services are most missing, but rather what is the conscious purpose of the self and the city that is most missing in peoples\' lives?';
Sparkies[48] = 'A city\'s values make possible the vision(s) that people dream for themselves and how the city can change.';
Sparkies[49] = 'When enough individuals and groups share their dreams, the human hive starts to experience a form of internal resonance.  Because, from these dreams, can emerge the city\'s vision and mission or purpose.';
Sparkies[50] = 'An integral perspective on the city helps us to recognize and honour the necessity of conscious awareness.';
Sparkies[51] = 'An integral approach to consciousness enables us to see the evolution of hierarchies of capacity.';
Sparkies[52] = 'An integral approach to consciousness ... helps us focus attentions on what is valued and intentions on behaviors and outcomes that match those values.';
Sparkies[53] = '... the personal values of the mayor and council determine the filters through which decisions [are] made and the ceilings for limiting citizen aspirations.';
Sparkies[54] = 'The capacity of community and leadership are co-determined. Each arises simultaneously, with the community being the container for holding the emergence of leadership and leadership being the catalyst for emerging community.';
Sparkies[55] = 'Leadership, within an integral context, can be defined as a never ending quest for personal capacity development.';
Sparkies[56] = '... city leaders must take a conscious approach to individual development that prepares them to deal with the levels of complexity that now exist in the city.';
Sparkies[57] = 'As many have recognized, with the tipping point of the majority of humanity living in cities now passed and with the rise of the mega-city, human realities have become  concentrated within the boundaries of the city.';
Sparkies[58] = 'One of the great dilemmas of the city today is that its boundaries are as ambiguous and/or contentious, as the multiple consciousnesses who are identifying them.';
Sparkies[59] = 'Thus the consciousness that city leadership now requires may reveal that while positional leadership may be vested in one or several people (eg. Mayor and Council) true leadership is actually practised by those who interpret, negotiate and create the boundaries within which the city functions.';
Sparkies[60] = 'Who are these leaders? They are the people who with attention and intention take responsibility for themselves, organize care for others, lobby positional leaders and power structures and consider the global implications of decision sets.';
Sparkies[61] = 'The leader\'s biggest challenge is a failure to have sufficient conscious "altitude" to see the potential of the system-shift from single leaders who manage boundaries, to shared leadership who define and hold boundaries.';
Sparkies[62] = '... the current lack of leadership alignment prevents the leveraging of their consciousness and behaviors.';
Sparkies[63] = 'The city has key leadership needs in every fractal: individual, family, education, health-care, workplace organization, community/recreation, city governance.';
Sparkies[64] = 'Leadership to the Power of 8, calls forth leaders who have the consciousness of the eighth level of development, where the worldview is Gaiaic, the paradigm is global interconnectedness and the individual sees him or herself in terms of service to the evolutionary wellbeing of the world.';
Sparkies[65] = 'Leadership to the Power of 8 understands the infinite qualities of adaptiveness that enable human systems to thrive (and reproduce themselves) in endlessly changing life conditions.';
Sparkies[66] = 'Through interconnection and cross-collaboration on a truly global scale, we can see that Leadership to the Power of 8 enables the global flow of people, energy, security and resources.';
Sparkies[67] = 'Today\'s cities need leaders who [have] a consciousness that understands the interconnected, evolutionary, developmental nature of city life.';
Sparkies[68] = 'We are just starting to see leaders who have grown sufficient intentional capacity that gives them the credentials to speak about matters that impact the whole world.';
Sparkies[69] = 'This [leadership] capacity arises from leader\'s struggles to align their personal commitments, challenging life experiences, dedicated research and continuous learning and education';
Sparkies[70] = '[Integral] leaders make their invisible consciousness and conscience visible every day.';
Sparkies[71] = 'Leaders to the Power of 8 can also assist cities in developing nations by recognizing that rules and laws must be designed so that they embrace the globalization of technology and communications.';
Sparkies[72] = 'Leaders to the Power of 8 need mindsets that have the capacity to design systems that flex and flow on a global scale.';
Sparkies[73] = 'If economics trumps military power now,  then we must foresee that information will eventually trump economics.';
Sparkies[74] = 'Leaders to the Power of 8 who enable the transparent process of exchange (of products, people, values, processes, ideas and information) allow people in the city, naturally to come to think and act in terms of Whole (World) Systems Change.';
Sparkies[75] = 'Today\'s cities need leaders who have developed their consciousness to the "Power of 8", so they can create conditions of wellbeing for all citizens.';
Sparkies[76] = 'Instead of command and control city leaders need to enable connections and collaboration at all levels of scale: personal, teams, organizations, communities, cities, regions, nations, trading partners and world bodies.';
Sparkies[77] = 'The transition of jobs from the developed world to the developing world might also provide the impetus for cities to step into the realm of rule sets that haven\'t traditionally been their purview &mdash; like redefining intellectual property rights,  developing global labor standards and tracking shifting job pools.';
Sparkies[78] = 'The new bottom line for leaders who have consciousness to the Power of 8, will be to enable emergence and evolution in people, organizations, cities and the world simultaneously.';
Sparkies[79] = '...bees have been working effortlessly through the algebra of foraging since before our ancestors came down from the trees such is the potential of innate wiring, honed and polished by countless generations of natural selection. (Gould & Gould, 1988 p. 91)';
Sparkies[80] = 'We need to consciously redesign the entire material basis of our civilization. The model we replace it with must be dramatically more ecologically sustainable, offer large increases in prosperity for everyone on the planet, and not only function in areas of chaos and corruption, but also help transform them. (Alex Steffen cofounder of Worldchanging as quoted by Robertson, 2007)';
Sparkies[81] = 'at least one purpose for people living together in urban density, could be for intentionally embodying a unified energized field, for the purpose of de-stressing others and enabling optimal bio-physical health for the collective of humans in the city?';
Sparkies[82] = '... behavior in the city does not change in isolation of intention, culture and social systems.';
Sparkies[83] = 'Each person or household essentially has a "home" economy that arises because of the need to supply the basics of life to the individual cells in the household body.';
Sparkies[84] = 'Economies in the natural world are rarely steady state flow systems but rather rise and fall like the bees\' pollination cycles that deliver peak energy incomes for a few crucial weeks a year ... that allow the hive to survive.';
Sparkies[85] = '... like the bee hive, all the essential systems of the city exist to support the direct or indirect survival of its citizen bodies, relationships and exchanges.';
Sparkies[86] = 'When cities grow beyond a certain size the shortening of these food chains becomes difficult and/or impossible. In the past this has lead to mass migrations ...';
Sparkies[87] = 'The order of the basics &mdash; air, water, food, clothing, shelter -- represents an evolving sequence of evolutionary needs (and thus an order of complexity), with a recognition that the first items on the list have primacy over all the needs following.';
Sparkies[88] = '... the roots of our living together in groups arise from the very fact that we are living systems.';
Sparkies[89] = 'The city is just a natural and inevitable outcome of human behaviors which have resulted in human evolution. But it has also become a life condition itself that directly impacts citizen wellbeing.';
Sparkies[90] = 'even as the city represents the most complex creation of man\'s combined efforts, its ultimate health and functioning rest on the health and functioning of individual citizens.';
Sparkies[91] = 'To understand the city we must understand citizen behaviors; to understand citizen behaviors we need to understand them as individuals in the context of the many.';
Sparkies[92] = 'The bio-physical features of individuals in the city are the raw material of the city\'s demographics. The composition of the city from these aggregated qualities give the city its granular face.';
Sparkies[93] = 'The mix of gender, age, generations, race, height, birth weight, mortality, country of birth and location define the physical characteristics of our dissipative [city] structures.';
Sparkies[94] = 'Demographers claim demographics determine the destiny of cities and societies because they embody human wellbeing and enable the manifestation of human intentions.';
Sparkies[95] = 'Demographics are key determinants of our intentional, cultural and social capacities, because they represent the bodies through which our intentions, cultures and systems are delivered.';
Sparkies[96] = 'If we do not learn from [demographic] messages, our bodies moan, whisper, nag and protest with ever increasing volume, until they are heard.';
Sparkies[97] = 'The city is an ecology of demographics.';
Sparkies[98] = 'As a dynamic container of complex adaptive systems the city\'s objective qualities change as citizens are born, live and die.';
Sparkies[99] = '... developmental/evolutionary biologists ... propose that more is going on in the cell than simple genetic manipulation.';
Sparkies[100] = 'The cell itself (and its DNA) creates an energetic field and is itself embedded in energetic fields to which it responds or adapts.';
Sparkies[101] = 'The cell is able to learn and thus demonstrate consciousness.';
Sparkies[102] = 'Since the human individual is made up of cells, it follows that that human systems at every level of scale encompass the objective (material) and subjective (conscious) qualities of life.';
Sparkies[103] = 'From the perspective of our understanding of human systems in the context of the city, [personality] traits are more like second and third level demographic traits.';
Sparkies[104] = 'The character or personality of groups (social holons) are influenced by [horizontal hard-wired] preferences, as are the effectiveness of team performance, organizational strategy and community spirit.';
Sparkies[105] = 'The value of any demographic data to individuals and groups in the city and to the city governance system, is that it provides the physical data to make calculations on how to manage energy in the city.';
Sparkies[106] = 'Managing energy in the city comes back to clocking the flows of energy through our dissipative structures &mdash; determining what we consume on an individual basis and translating it into an energy-based common denominator.';
Sparkies[107] = 'Tthe eco-footprint] calculates the number of earths that would be needed if everyone lived at the level of the person completing the calculation (for most people in the developed world it is currently four earths and increasing).';
Sparkies[108] = 'A calculation like the eco-footprint provides a level of self-awareness that becomes the first step of self-management.';
Sparkies[109] = 'Even though critics observe that the eco-footprint has data gaps, those very gaps indicate information we need to fill in the whole picture.';
Sparkies[110] = 'The value of using [the eco-footprint] ... cannot be underestimated, because it highlights both the individual behaviors that contribute to climate change and attempts to compare the collective behaviors of different groups of people.';
Sparkies[111] = '... managing energy is an integral process that is intimately connected with intentions, culture and social systems.';
Sparkies[112] = 'If ... the city is made up of fractals &mdash; entities whose patterns repeat themselves at different levels of scale, then the biology of life appears to be the most logical source of exterior city patterns.';
Sparkies[113] = '... the processes of sustaining and maintaining structures are accomplished with the cooperation of groups of cells that function as a whole (holons) &mdash; in organs, body systems and human bodies &mdash; in the family, clan and community -- in educational institutions, workplaces and civic society.';
Sparkies[114] = 'At its most fundamental functioning, home economy in all the [city] holons, starting in the cell and finishing in the city as the whole, is about processing, patternizing and structurizing in dissipative forms.';
Sparkies[115] = 'Thus the city is not a static place of bricks and mortar. Rather it is a dynamic dissipative structure, capturing environmental resources in a flowing process of ever emerging embodied behavior patterns.';
Sparkies[116] = '... while the air, water and food are internally processed by the human being, clothing and shelter are externally created.';
Sparkies[117] = '... the nature of the human being is defined by two classes of necessities: the first group supports our pre-human reality; the second group supports our distinctly human reality.';
Sparkies[118] = '... because of the invention and creation of these two extensions of the human system [clothing and shelter], the whole stream of all other human creations and artefacts has gushed forth!!';
Sparkies[119] = 'If Eden represents our unembellished biological state, then banishment represents not a fall from grace, but instead is a metaphor for the marriage of intention and behavior.';
Sparkies[120] = 'The parable of Eden is a fractal (or archetypal) story itself. It represents man\'s evolution as a species as well as historical emergence and development as an individual.';
Sparkies[121] = 'If we had not left Eden we would not have cities. In Eden we were only what we breathed, drank and ate. After Eden we were what we created as well.';
Sparkies[122] = '... the dissipative structures of bio-physical life provide a useful way of charting the nineteen subsystems in the human organism (which parallel the same nineteen subsystems in all other living systems) and the awesome complexity of our bio-physical experience.';
Sparkies[123] = 'If the city were a Diseased body,  it might be Chernobyl with its meltdown of (nuclear) energy generating systems; New York with its devastating structural collapse on September 11, 2001; or New Orleans with its boundaries breached by broken levees.';
Sparkies[124] = 'If the city were a Dysfunctional body, we would see a place without sufficient tax base to support its infrastructure; consuming its own land and energy resources beyond its willingness or capacity to replace them; with impassable roadways, inoperable transit systems, sporadic and poor telephone and media services; polluted air, water, soil and unhygienic waste management; characterized by conflict, tyranny and intimidation by its governance system.';
Sparkies[125] = 'Our senses are our biological evidence gathering mechanisms. They gather the data that stimulate both automatic behavior (like eye blinking, flinching, sneezing, gagging) and intentional behavior.';
Sparkies[126] = 'The senses are inextricably linked with one another, often even able to replace one another when one is damaged or destroyed (a condition called synesthesia). The senses emerged as embodied survival strategies ...';
Sparkies[127] = 'The senses are our personal biological data gathering tools with many automatic interpretation capacities so tightly connected to them, that we experience the output indicators (bright, loud, hot, sour, soft) almost simultaneously with the input.';
Sparkies[128] = 'In the city, our senses are bombarded with stimulation, frequently to the point of over-stimulation and even pain.';
Sparkies[129] = 'When senses are over-stimulated their data gathering and interpretation effectiveness plateaus and we start ignoring the signals they are sending us. This is not only stressful, it is dangerous because we lose touch with information that can be essential to our survival.';
Sparkies[130] = 'Increasingly our biological experience of the city is that we are being cooked to death by the malfunctioning of a set of nested dissipative structures, with blockages in the flow of nutrients.';
Sparkies[131] = 'The city has grown to a scale where the metabolizing processes are blocked at many junctures causing toxic backup. The toxins become pollution that is not being cleaned from the system.';
Sparkies[132] = 'While the over stimulation of our senses in the city, can initially be exciting (literally and figuratively), over time this wears down our receiving apparatus and tires out our interpretation centers.';
Sparkies[133] = 'The capacity for absorbing stimulation varies with disposition and age. It tends to decline in adulthood, unless we learn how to de-stress and become mindful of our environment.';
Sparkies[134] = 'Ultimately our senses provide the tools for observation, without which we would not have the data for feelings, thoughts or wants.';
Sparkies[135] = 'The senses provide an unending stream of data for our personal (albeit informal) scientific experiments, also known as living.';
Sparkies[136] = '... the basis for science is simply the formalization of the learning process that evolution has developed through our basic sense gathering, dissipative structure operating system. Without the senses and without the data we would literally be without intelligence.';
Sparkies[137] = '... a city without intelligence sufficient to its complexity is a city that has lost touch with its senses.';
Sparkies[138] = 'A senseless or sense deprived city does not make sense and is ultimately not sustainable.';
Sparkies[139] = 'The human condition is disposed to maintain the status quo when life conditions support us in doing so &mdash; it uses less energy.';
Sparkies[140] = '... to change requires that we change behaviors, and thus the amount of energy and the manner in which we use it.';
Sparkies[141] = 'When the data from our senses tells us that we cannot return to our usual way of doing things, we experience bodily discomfort and cognitive dissonance.';
Sparkies[142] = 'Through learning we expand the capacity of intelligence in the individual and thereby the intelligence capital of the city.';
Sparkies[143] = 'Learning is not simply a matter of intellectual engagement, but embraces the reorganization and reapplication of energy for changing behaviors and taking action.';
Sparkies[144] = 'Because, biology co-creates its environment, wellness is a process always in flux, as individual organisms at all levels keep adjusting their relationships to find what works.';
Sparkies[145] = 'Symbiosis is a characteristic of living systems and is fundamental to community and city wellbeing.  It is the biological equivalent of the Cultural expression of acceptance.';
Sparkies[146] = 'Indicators of biological alignment and coherence ... emerge from a healthy dynamism.';
Sparkies[147] = 'Health ... emerges from resilience -- a capacity to flexibly relate to one\'s environment, including relating to others in it &mdash; so that sourcing nourishment, sustaining life and reproducing may continue to occur despite conditions of change in the environment.';
Sparkies[148] = 'When the body approaches the Health zone it moves from dysfunction into a state of integration and optimal functioning.';
Sparkies[149] = 'In a healthy city ... metanormal functioning would provide multiple controls ... utilize great diversity ... And ironically operate without awareness of control.';
Sparkies[150] = 'If a Healthy body were a city it would have perfectly balanced respiratory, heart/blood circulatory, skeletal, digestive and autonomic nervous systems. It would be an athlete in peak condition.';
Sparkies[151] = 'Developing a wholesome body and developing a wholesome city requires that we promote general practices of health (and health care systems) ...';
Sparkies[152] = 'Just as consciousness has complexified as the human species has evolved, so has the body.';
Sparkies[153] = 'While we tend to think that the body we have now has not changed since the emergence of homo sapiens sapiens as a distinct species, it has in fact adapted to life conditions, just as the brain has.';
Sparkies[154] = 'In fact the more we study the gene, the brain and the body, the more we realize that the human being\'s basic condition is to adapt and change.';
Sparkies[155] = '...in the hive hardly a minute goes by without every bee either begging a bit of food from others it encounters, or being solicited by them. Indeed, if one bee is fed a bit of radioactive nectar, the majority of bees in the colony will carry the tracer before the day is out. In some sense, a colony has a communal stomach. (Gould & Gould, 1988 p. 33)';
Sparkies[156] = 'People need stories more than food to stay alive. (Lopez & Pearson, 1990)';
Sparkies[157] = 'When we sense the boundaries of communities, and neighborhoods in the city, we are sensing the tone and cadence of the city.';
Sparkies[158] = 'The relationships of the city\'s cultures can be heard and felt in tone and cadence.';
Sparkies[159] = 'The wellbeing of the city can be diagnosed by its tone and cadence. The tone is a felt sense of wellbeing.';
Sparkies[160] = '... like chiropractors or Feldenkreis workers or even martial artists, we can sense the state of wellbeing in the container by noticing the change state not only has a tonal quality but between each change state a shift in cadence.';
Sparkies[161] = 'This cadence [of the city] reflects the state of deep "not knowing" but being open to a new answer. This cadence is a critical shift point. It is the dance of the long now.';
Sparkies[162] = 'When the energy from battles [in the city] has transformed relationships and inquiry has born fruit, the cadence shifts to one of creativity. A creative rhythm is characterized by the flex and flow of cool jazz, where the performance of individuals intertwines with the team work of the group. The container is full of potential and brimming over with innovative proactivity.';
Sparkies[163] = '... the relationships in the city reflect not only its cultural reality, but are inextricably the touchstone of the city\'s health, wealth and sustainability.';
Sparkies[164] = 'City cultures depend totally on the quality of relationships.';
Sparkies[165] = 'The city is like the bee hive\'s giant communication dance floor, on which the dancers continuously move, join, partner, group, cluster, vibrate and pattern.';
Sparkies[166] = '... using integral lenses, we can start to understand the enormous patterns of intelligence that emerge from the self-organizing relationships on the dance floor.';
Sparkies[167] = 'Relationships may be the prime "currency" of the Integral City.';
Sparkies[168] = 'In a living system, relationships are the bonds that link identities (holons) and information.';
Sparkies[169] = 'Relationships make exchanges possible.';
Sparkies[170] = 'The formation of relationships is central to the emergence of new patterns, new intelligence and new complexity.';
Sparkies[171] = 'Through the negotiation of relationships, boundaries are recognized, linked, crossed, embraced, broken, denied and redefined.';
Sparkies[172] = 'Transactional relationships tend to be everyday bonds, that keep us in the same patterns and cycles that enable predictability and stability.';
Sparkies[173] = 'Through a transformative relationship, the exchange causes one or both parties to recognizably change form.';
Sparkies[174] = 'Through a transmutational relationship both (all) parties are fundamentally recombined into something completely new.';
Sparkies[175] = 'The exchange between two or more parties alters the relationship so a completely new pattern emerges. In the repatterning, the relationships that existed before are transcended and included so they may not even be visible or recognizable.';
Sparkies[176] = 'Transmutational relationships can happen when organizations merge and create a new entity with entirely novel ways of operating.';
Sparkies[177] = 'When collective beliefs change ... at the transmutational level new forms of organization and structure are also invented ...';
Sparkies[178] = '... at the city scale, transmutational relationships occur on the cusps of era changes. They create patterns of relationships that never before existed. These are the relationships spawned by innovation, invention and insight.';
Sparkies[179] = 'Our transactional relationships tend to serve our bio-physical behavioral needs. Our transformational relationships tend to serve our intentional needs. Our transmutational relationships catalyze shifts in meeting collective needs of the whole system.';
Sparkies[180] = 'Transactional relationships are like two people waltzing &mdash; all they sense are each others souls.';
Sparkies[181] = 'Transformational relationships are like a group of people line dancing in synchrony &mdash; what most experience is the delight of coordinated performance.';
Sparkies[182] = 'Transmutational relationships occur like a network of people coordinating their behaviours at a distance simultaneously for innovative effect.';
Sparkies[183] = 'When transmutational relationship patterns become repeated often enough they become institutionalized and translate into the transactions of a new cultural era.';
Sparkies[184] = 'The cultures of [modern] cities have strategically positioned business based relationships inside city hall to govern the relationships outside city hall.';
Sparkies[185] = 'Now the over achievement of [modern] values requires a renegotiation of the city with the environment from which it is drawing its raw materials and to which it is returning its wastes.';
Sparkies[186] = 'The relationship of city to environment has become toxic. The toxic relationship is epitomized by pollution.';
Sparkies[187] = 'The competitive relationship between cities also produced unexpected results. In this relationship model, some cities are losers and some are winners.';
Sparkies[188] = 'As capital and machinery replace human labor, the losing cities are losing economic drivers.';
Sparkies[189] = 'The loss of jobs shifts the relationships of organizations, employers, workers, families, partners and individuals in the city.';
Sparkies[190] = 'Within some cities some individuals have values that reflect the reality that relationships have a natural flex and flow.';
Sparkies[191] = '... most city cultures have been largely resistant to redefining relationships in support of ... systemic, ecology based values.';
Sparkies[192] = 'Climate change may be the trigger that causes a transmutational recalibration of relationships in the city and even between cities.';
Sparkies[193] = 'Who are our inner judges, resource allocators, conformity enforcers and diversity generators ? How might they contribute to adapting our relationships for survival, greater effectiveness and wellbeing?';
Sparkies[194] = '... the patterns of the stages of the organizational lifecycle are the same fractal patterns of an individual human lifecycle.';
Sparkies[195] = 'Like individuals, organizations can die at any age or stage of the lifecycle &mdash; there is no guarantee that it will be completed';
Sparkies[196] = 'Human relationships change to adapt to life conditions.';
Sparkies[197] = 'If human systems are essentially fractal, we should be able to see the same pattern of relationships at each human scale.';
Sparkies[198] = 'At each stage of complexity the over-riding value (order, profit, care, systemization, globalization, etc.) brings a new intention to the shared space of relationships.';
Sparkies[199] = 'The enterprising diversity generator is the role that kick starts each level, discovering the new way of adapting that solves the problems at hand.';
Sparkies[200] = 'Because the dominant behaviors of any culture arise in response to life conditions, each level of existence behaves with increasing levels of complexity in order to maximize the organizing principle (or value) of the current life condition.';
Sparkies[201] = '... a tension in favour of the values and behavior that is most coherent with the current life conditions, will tend to be maintained.';
Sparkies[202] = 'The dominant culture will protect itself against diversity generation.';
Sparkies[203] = 'When life conditions finally require the solutions that diversity generation can offer the problems created by the conformity enforcer values will usually have become so acute that the majority are willing to change.';
Sparkies[204] = '... natural evolutionary cycles are fractal and emerge at all levels of scale: individual, family, organization, society.';
Sparkies[205] = 'The relationship between conformity enforcers and diversity generators is continuously cycled from one pole to the next in order to optimize the contributions of each group of people to the survival equation.';
Sparkies[206] = 'As a culture\'s values altitude increases, the universe grows exponentially larger, and the culture becomes more expansive and more inclusive of others';
Sparkies[207] = '... a blockage in the US at the ego values level ... is of serious concern to the functioning of democracy, which requires at least an ethno-centric worldview &mdash; but works even better at the world, social network and systems level of relating.';
Sparkies[208] = 'A cohesive group of two or more people, must be considered a special kind of holon &mdash; a social holon. The characteristics of a social holon are not merely summative, but are dynamically relational.';
Sparkies[209] = 'Each person in the social holon is a complex adaptive system, whose intentional and behavioral capacities demonstrate a "center of gravity" which situates them on the levels of complexity.';
Sparkies[210] = 'When we look at a social holon, where two or more people share intentions, beliefs, values and worldviews the performance of the social holon is determined by the individual performances of each member of the social holon.';
Sparkies[211] = 'Players who achieve this [supermornal outcomes], report an experience of "being in the zone"; of positively influencing one another; of being embraced by a kind of bubble of telepathic communication and intuitive responsiveness.';
Sparkies[212] = 'Cultural cohesion can be measured through metrics tracking energetic noise and resonance.';
Sparkies[213] = 'Cultures emerge because when we repeat patterns of behavior and intention often enough, we create energetic memory in the body and in the field (or space) around the body.';
Sparkies[214] = 'Archetypes represent the culture\'s characteristic ways of behaving and produce the characters named in every culture\'s traditional stories, such as: the maiden, warrior, king, hero, shaman, crone and fool .';
Sparkies[215] = 'Cultural archetypes ... represent the actors and their relationships in every level of complexity. They reflect the worldviews, values and memes in play in any culture at any given level of complexity.';
Sparkies[216] = '... the reality of cultures is that they are made up of social holons where each person\'s intentions can potentially make a difference.';
Sparkies[217] = 'Paradoxically each person\'s intentions can only make a difference if the strength of the conformity enforcement is lowered sufficiently to enable the difference to be noticed and responded to.';
Sparkies[218] = 'In an Integral City it will pay us to notice where the energy is &mdash; who are acting as conformity enforcers and who are diversity generators.';
Sparkies[219] = 'By paying attention to these ebbs and flows [of energy] we will know where our leverage points are and what the next natural step will be for development in any given neighborhood.';
Sparkies[220] = 'The cultural ecology of the city ebbs and flows because the stream of individual values and collective priorities adapt to the life conditions embracing and embedded in the city.';
Sparkies[221] = 'Subjective and intersubjective experience represents the interior realities of individuals and groups of people.';
Sparkies[222] = 'The voices from each quadrant contribute to the cultural ecology of the city.';
Sparkies[223] = 'The voice of the speaker reveals their values, priorities and therefore the center of gravity of their personal capacity.';
Sparkies[224] = 'now with the population size of cities spanning collectives from 100,000 to 20,000,000, the voices of individual citizens are becoming almost impossible to hear.';
Sparkies[225] = 'We live in cities that are akin to Dr. Seuss\' "Horton Hears a Who" -- except that we rarely ask everyone to be quiet so specific voices can be heard.';
Sparkies[226] = 'The Citizen voice is the very lifeblood of cultural existence in the city. It is the voice of the city spirit.';
Sparkies[227] = 'The fact that the content and intent embedded in Citizen voices are counter-balanced by Citizen listening capacities, means that the multi-way exchange of voices requires special attention.';
Sparkies[228] = 'Crafting messages that can be heard across the range of complexities is a job for the keeper of the modern day tower of Babel.';
Sparkies[229] = 'At this stage of human evolution, one message in the city is never sufficient &mdash; in most cases a minimum of four messages need to be delivered to be heard for centers of gravity that span from traditional to modern to post-modern.';
Sparkies[230] = 'One of the major dilemmas of the modern city, is that leadership values are frequently not at a more complex level than many citizens.';
Sparkies[231] = 'The quality of [the citizen] voice varies from a rich deep bass, to a high pitched treble. At its best it is a heavenly choir; at its worst it is a dissonant cacophony.';
Sparkies[232] = '...more and more City Managers have become highly skilled "meshworkers" able to coordinate the intentions, behaviors, culture and social systems of all the stakeholders of the city with skills learned both on the job and through formal study.';
Sparkies[233] = 'The life of the bee is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more there is to draw. Karl von Frisch as quoted by (Gould & Gould, 1988 p.225)';
Sparkies[234] = 'We are the first [society] to enjoy the opportunity of learning quickly from developments in societies anywhere in the world today, and from what has unfolded in societies at any time in the past. (Diamond, 2005, p. 23)';
Sparkies[235] = 'When we reframe the city, from being merely the built environment outside of us, to the built environment as simply an extension of us, our relationship with the "objective" city becomes ever so much more personal.';
Sparkies[236] = 'The most livable cities have been created so that the building blocks of matter, information and energy serve the human system in compatible and coherent ways.';
Sparkies[237] = '[In the city} we have essentially created exo-skeletons, muscles and organ systems to capture and contain our biological functions.';
Sparkies[238] = 'The realities of our biological functions dictate and determine that the structures of the city are mere enablers of the flow of matter, energy and information to individual human systems.';
Sparkies[239] = 'As long as people are part of the city, they will call forth an infrastructure that supports them to the extent that they are maintaining and developing their human capacities.';
Sparkies[240] = 'To the extent that invisible human capacities of consciousness and culture develop, the visible human capacities described in biology, archeology, anthropology and sociology help us understand the behaviors of individuals and groups related to such developments.';
Sparkies[241] = 'Because of their nature, grounded in matter, the structures and infrastructures of the city, tend to be much longer lasting than those in the other quadrants. They appear frozen in time, but effectively matter and energy just move through the structures at a much slower rate than through individual biological persons.';
Sparkies[242] = 'The scale of the city is different than individual humans and its measures need to be calibrated for effectiveness at the city scale.';
Sparkies[243] = 'The structural systems for managing energy, information and matter are essentially the same as those mapped out for the individual biology';
Sparkies[244] = '[We can] make a very strong case for the clear value of managing a city as a natural human system, derived from a natural human system.';
Sparkies[245] = 'As human capacities for processing energy, matter and information have evolved in complexity we can see that the city has always responded to reflect these evolving capacities.';
Sparkies[246] = 'Even as cities become increasingly adept at creating built solutions to human demands, they seem to be disconnecting from the ultimate infrastructure on which their systems depend &mdash; namely the planet\'s carrying capacity.';
Sparkies[247] = 'The carrying capacity for each city is intimately tied to its eco-region, even though cities have attempted to import their needs from increasingly distant locations.';
Sparkies[248] = 'If the city\'s structural roots were clearly visible in its eco-region the city would see its best interests protected by assuming a stewardship role for its eco-region.';
Sparkies[249] = 'because the history of many of the most powerful societies have roots in the over-populated cities of nineteenth century Europe the habits of cities die hard.';
Sparkies[250] = '... any urban eco-system requires a shortened food chain and once a formula is found, it becomes resistant to change, and predatory of all other formulae.';
Sparkies[251] = 'Ironically, even as the length of the urban food chain decreases, the disconnection between the city and its ecological context seems to increase.';
Sparkies[252] = 'If city governors do not consider that the city or the governance system is responsible for the health of both the city\'s internal and external condition, then we will continue to produce sprawl ; cities with chronic water shortages; mega-cities with severe over-population and poverty ; and toxic cities where it is dangerous to breathe the air.';
Sparkies[253] = 'The eco-footprint creates a strong measure of the use of energy, specifically carbon-based fuels, to demonstrate the relative efficiency of the lifestyle of any given city.';
Sparkies[254] = 'the warning signals offered by the eco-footprint, the carbon footprint  and earth climate warming are all critical vital signs that we need to monitor and change behaviors based on the feedback they report.';
Sparkies[255] = 'The relationship between eco-footprint and the carbon footprint seems to provide real constraints for the healthy functioning of cities.';
Sparkies[256] = '1. We can clearly see that these ratios of people:land:energy mean that we can no longer be ignorant of the effects cities have on the health of the planet.';
Sparkies[257] = 'The bee hive has a relationship with the environment that it co-sustains &mdash; a certain land area is required to produce the flowers, that support the hive.';
Sparkies[258] = 'For cities the size and density of the population, the land base and the heat output are all rational factors that should be taken into consideration for optimizing the quality of life in the city.';
Sparkies[259] = 'Ultimately cities are not sustainable if their eco-regions are not sustainable.';
Sparkies[260] = 'The city and its eco-region needs to be co-sustainable.';
Sparkies[261] = 'There is a real science to the factors that contribute to city and eco-region resilience , city and eco-region sustainability and their contribution to planet resilience and planet sustainability.';
Sparkies[262] = 'Resilience for a city means that its nest of human systems are able to adapt to the life conditions of the city and its eco-regions.';
Sparkies[263] = 'Is it possible that we are creating earth conditions that will produce many more modern day Atlantises?';
Sparkies[264] = 'The persuasive warnings about the cruel relationship between the city and its resource shadow ... remind us that the relationship between energy, matter and information is one we constantly negotiate and is ultimately one of life and death.';
Sparkies[265] = 'The city now needs to mature so that it not only pays attention to the health within its boundaries and to the health of its eco-region, but takes responsibility for it.';
Sparkies[266] = 'How does who sustain whom, with what resources, drawn from where, for what purpose? This could become the city\'s clarion question to define the parameters of its own sustainability.';
Sparkies[267] = 'As we have sourced our food basket from further and further away, it appears that we have not only disenfranchised local food producers, but also local food eaters.';
Sparkies[268] = 'City structures are made up both from the collective of people of whom we are a part and also the built environment.';
Sparkies[269] = 'The built environment is the extension of our human systems that enables the large population of people in the city to survive in close proximity to one another.';
Sparkies[270] = 'However, the built structures in the city, taken together as systems are not merely utilitarian but are externalized functions of human existence.';
Sparkies[271] = 'There is or could be a seamless interconnection between the built environment and the basic functions of the human system.';
Sparkies[272] = 'The history of the city as a built environment, is the history of externalizing the internal (and generally invisible) functions of the human system so that larger and larger populations of people can live together.';
Sparkies[273] = 'By the simple act of being situated in the city, we become dependent on its systems for: air quality, water, food, waste management, bodily protection (clothing, shelter), mobility, temperature control, information exchange and rest and renewal.';
Sparkies[274] = '... just as the natural world has continued to complexify structures over evolutionary history, as a natural system, it is perfectly natural that the human system would evolve in the direction of greater complexity.';
Sparkies[275] = 'The center to the organizational structure is ... effectively a values center from which and to which the rest of the structure flows.';
Sparkies[276] = 'As the life conditions for the city change, the "center of the universe" for the city changes and so does the structural center of the city change.';
Sparkies[277] = 'For pre-modern cities the center is city hall; for modern cities it is the financial district; for post-modern cities it is the community center; and for the integral city it is a hub of networked centers with easy access to each other.';
Sparkies[278] = 'In an Integral City the design criteria for structures would transcend and include the values of the citizens, enabling life giving centers and natural boundaries with qualities that served the people and functions they contained.';
Sparkies[279] = 'With their concentration of human populations in focused time-space continuums, [cities] require the most complex forms of social system management ever created.';
Sparkies[280] = '... the translation and transfer of the extensions of  human systems into built form [in the city], demands the most complex form of structural system management ever needed by life.';
Sparkies[281] = 'In support of primary, secondary and tertiary work we have created the great team, organizational and civil structures that enable collective functioning.';
Sparkies[282] = 'The shape, texture and ergonomics of [city] structures reflect the bio-psycho-cultural-social characteristics of their creators and users.';
Sparkies[283] = 'Human social structures create energetic fields whose effects can be measured. At the moment those measures are rather primitive ...';
Sparkies[284] = 'As our instruments and understanding improve we will come to see that bio-physical proximity creates conditions for collective epistemologies (ways of knowing) ...';
Sparkies[285] = 'As our instruments and our understanding complexify, we will not only be able to measure time span of work roles, but mind-span of intentions, and we will understand how to structure social forms to optimize such ways of knowing and how to design built structures to amplify them.';
Sparkies[286] = 'the extensions or artefacts of human structure become reflectors and amplifiers of human behaviors and intelligence.';
Sparkies[287] = '... if the stones and walls could speak they would tell tales embedded in their very structures of how they contained the information and energy fields of human systems that made past society possible.';
Sparkies[288] = 'beneath (or beside or above) the streets lie the delivery channels for water, sewer, electricity, gas and tele-media-communications';
Sparkies[289] = 'The very existence of infrastructure calls into being the designers, engineers, technicians and construction workers who build it (and all the requisite organization needed for them to operate) ...';
Sparkies[290] = '... the creation of city infrastructure enables the creation of all the other structures that depend on it.';
Sparkies[291] = 'Infrastructure both limits (constrains) and delimits (bounds) the city.';
Sparkies[292] = 'When we have inappropriate role relationships, then human systems are misconstrued (mis-constructed) and performance is sub-optimal.';
Sparkies[293] = 'The alignment of infrastructure and human organizational structure optimizes intelligence.';
Sparkies[294] = 'One of the most fascinating structural relationships that the bees have developed in their world, is that they have developed a direct relationship with the wellbeing of their energy source.';
Sparkies[295] = 'By pollinating the flowers, [bees] renew the source of life that assures them an annual supply of energy.';
Sparkies[296] = 'The city should be vitally concerned with the health and wellbeing of its watershed, it\'s food farms, and potentially its green energy source.';
Sparkies[297] = 'What would happen if every city took on a stewardship role for its eco-region? What would happen if the interdependent relationship of city and country were enshrined in responsibility and accountability agreements?';
Sparkies[298] = 'Our economies currently operate as if city and country are independent of each other.';
Sparkies[299] = 'Cities are as dependent on carbon-based fuel as any addict is on heroin.';
Sparkies[300] = 'A combination of natural fuels like solar power, wind power, tidal power and green (ethanol) power create the possibility that each eco-region has the potential to produce energy in a way that can be continuously renewed.';
Sparkies[301] = 'What if every Integral City took responsibility for the green fields (and became experts in the use of solar power, wind power, tidal power) of its eco-region as stewards of its own source for food and fuel?';
Sparkies[302] = '... bio-mimicry ... does not only have advantages for the manufacture of goods, but can offer inspiration for the functioning of whole systems like the Integral City.';
Sparkies[303] = 'If we can keep in mind the dynamic qualities of the individual people in the social quadrant we can appreciate that the social holon is largely characterized by the dynamics of its demographics.';
Sparkies[304] = 'Our demographics affect how we build our cities, with whom and for whom. They not only determine the type and flow of resources through the city, but they also determine to a large measure who will be making the decisions for everyone in the city.';
Sparkies[305] = 'the larger any set of demographics are within a social holon, the stronger will be their impact on the whole society and the more likely they will be setting the direction for enforcing conformity.';
Sparkies[306] = 'When we can import food, virtually from around the world, we extend the reach and influence of dominant demographic cohorts and strengthen them in the process.';
Sparkies[307] = 'With the widened sphere of outsourcing, the cycle of the conformity enforcers may be so prolonged that we do not change our behaviors until it too late.';
Sparkies[308] = 'Unintended consequences have resulted from under-intended design.';
Sparkies[309] = 'It would appear that at this stage of evolution virtually no city is well fitted to its landscape. This is largely because we have failed to view cities within a whole systems perspective, including the context of its environmental fitness landscape.';
Sparkies[310] = 'The social quadrant embraces people and their built artefacts, and ostensibly embraces structures, systems and infrastructures.';
Sparkies[311] = 'in order to bring new order to the social structures of the city, we have to appreciate how those relationships currently exist and what they are likely to change into.';
Sparkies[312] = '<i>Honey bees are at the top of their evolutionary tree, whereas humans are the most highly evolved species on our branch.</i>';
Sparkies[313] = '<i>All things are global, indeed cosmic, for all things are connected, and the memory of all things extends to all places and to all times. This is the concept of the in-formed universe, the view of the world that will hallmark science and society in the coming decades.</i>';
Sparkies[314] = 'In 100 years cities may, like bee hives, just be classified as one of two kinds: wild and designed. Wild cities will be like the cities most of us know today &mdash; mostly unplanned, self-organizing, ever evolving, sub-optimal habitats of swarming humanity. But will designed cities be more than the cities that are starting to emerge from the deserts';
Sparkies[315] = 'Will we need to invite into the design space the very cultural and social people who will occupy the design and so should be the primary co-creators of the city?';
Sparkies[316] = 'We have created megalopolises in excess of 20 million people, that are not only impossible to manage or sustain, but that have become massive heat generating sinks that are changing global climate and sucking up resources at such a rate that they are decimating the ecology in which they are situated';
Sparkies[317] = 'At this stage of human existence where is the new science of human cities? Where are the successors to the great urban development pioneers? Who has taken up the mantle of Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford or Jane Jacobs';
Sparkies[318] = 'Why, do we seem to know more about the collective lives of ants, bees and termites than we do of the collective needs of our own species';
Sparkies[319] = 'How can cities tell us what we want to know most about human emergence, environmental sustainability and global wellbeing?';
Sparkies[320] = 'How will cities develop sufficient resilience to thrive in the face of ... converging tectonic stresses of over-population, energy scarcity, environmental damage, climate change and economic instability?';
Sparkies[321] = 'The human species lies at the apex of our evolutionary branch of vertebrates. We are the humans conscious of our consciousness &mdash; thus we are not only homo sapiens but homo sapiens sapiens.';
Sparkies[322] = '... the human condition is a never ending quest, involving continuous adaptation and change.';
Sparkies[323] = 'A fractal is a repeated non-linear pattern that recurs, at infinite scales in nature, arising from the following of simple rules embedded in the nature of the fractal entity; examples include coastlines, cloud formations, trees, villages, bodies, behaviors, hives and cities.';
Sparkies[324] = 'The key perspectives of this integral framework are represented in all the languages of the world as the first, second and third person voices of I, We/You, It and Its.';
Sparkies[325] = '... city structures and infrastructures arise from and connect to the natural systems of global ecology.';
Sparkies[326] = '... effective city leadership requires an understanding of the dynamics of individual and group human development &mdash; that it must embrace the space of mind, heart and spirit and not just the physical body';
Sparkies[327] = 'Leaders everywhere need ... to provide appropriate leadership that is effectively matched to the people being lead and/or the environmental conditions in which they live.';
Sparkies[328] = 'Contemplating the bees who replenish the pollen "banks" that support their hives, I think of the city as a human hive within the context of energetic flex and flow &mdash; not separate from global energy systems, but an integral part of them.';
Sparkies[329] = 'Cities (like bee hives) are urban energetic nodes linked within a global energetic body, which we experience bio-physically, psychologically, culturally and socially.';
Sparkies[330] = '... families, parents, communities and cultural systems all play integral roles in creating the conditions for cities to thrive.';
Sparkies[331] = '... the quality of life for any given people in any given community goes through natural cycles.';
Sparkies[332] = '... the value of the city does not derive just from the survival value to the egocentric individual, nor just to any belonging value of an ethnocentric collective or collectives, nor even just to the ecocentric sustainability value of the region or nation. The value of the city derives from a whole worldcentric system that supports the evolution of human consciousness, collaboration and capacity while adding value to Kosmocentric life on planet Earth.';
Sparkies[333] = '<i>For all their efforts, though, humans have not succeeded in domesticating bees. A swarm escaping from a commercial hive has just as good a chance of surviving in the wild as a feral swarm, and the number of wild colonies living in trees still far exceeds the population living in accommodations designed for them by humans.</i>';
Sparkies[334] = '<i>We shape ourselves to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invisible working together in common cause to produce the miraculous.</i>';
Sparkies[335] = 'For curious, creative and responsible citizens Integral City explains the dynamics of living in the city as a whole system so people can see that "everything counts"';
Sparkies[336] = '... any thought, act, belief or task may be the tipping point that causes an irretrievable shift in direction and/or capacity.';
Sparkies[337] = '... the bee hive gives us surprising and even delightful provocations, with which to think about the Integral City.';
Sparkies[338] = 'The patterns with which climate and geography influence human behavior appear to have set significant conditions for the development of all distinct cultures.';
Sparkies[339] = '... cities who were born on the sea shore thousands of years ago, even today, solve problems differently than cities of the mountains or desert.';
Sparkies[340] = 'The mindthe inner and outer lives of individuals and groups in the city co-evolve...in self-similar fractal patterns...so each level of scale affects the patterns of other levels of scale in endless feedback loops.';
Sparkies[341] = 'As carbon-based energy shortages start to increase and climate changes increase pressures on those resources, we see cities naturally implementing the lessons of the bees by reducing energy consumption through green building and seeking new options through the development of new energy sources like wind, solar and wave.';
Sparkies[342] = '... the performance [the captain] expected most from his crew was to be able to respond to the unexpected.';
Sparkies[343] = 'What would happen if we brought together the nautical (and even aerospace) academies with the academy of city management?';
Sparkies[344] = 'What could we learn about solving the dilemmas of cities by appreciating solutions that have been developed under much less forgiving conditions for the sea and cosmosphere?';
Sparkies[345] = '...the greatest opportunity for creating new realities comes not from the past but from the future.';
Sparkies[346] = '... the cities we have evolved are critical nodes of intelligence &mdash; literally dots of light that indicate where intelligence has coalesced in the universe.';
Sparkies[347] = '... every energy and material resource we need appears to be available in abundance in our solar system and the galaxy. Our job is to figure out how to access and harness those resources in the service of universal intelligence and evolution.';
Sparkies[348] = 'the city is the best example of what a future space colony might operate like.';
Sparkies[349] = 'Somewhere in our midst today are the pioneers who will create space colonies that will take the journey of the human species from earth to what we now call outer space.';
Sparkies[350] = '... wherever we go in the future, there we will be, with whatever bio-psycho-cultural-social realties we will have evolved.';
Sparkies[351] = 'Exploring the intelligence of the city is a necessary research project to ensure the survival of the human species on this earth long enough for us to create the conditions where human life can be supported in space cities or colonies. Such space colonies are the natural legacy we have in our power to vest if we can attract, assemble and crystallize the intelligences inherent in the Integral City.';
Sparkies[352] = 'the current peril of the bees in North America is an object lesson for human systems that the unexpected can undermine even the most apparently stable system.';
Sparkies[353] = 'The intimate relationship of the captains and navigators of the high seas remind us that most cultures recount the ark story as fundamental to the survival of the human species.';
Sparkies[354] = 'With an ironic buzz across the evolutionary branches, the invertebrate bees remind us vertebrate humans, that the choice of wild and tamed city will likely always be with us.';
Sparkies[355] = 'Whether our habitats are wild or designed, it is by learning the fractal rules that support intelligent sustainability wherever we live, that we will create the capacities for taking our intelligence and intelligent technology into the future and into outer space.';
Sparkies[356] = 'Even as our structures, infrastructures and systems have concentrated resources and blocked energy flows, we can use our intelligences to redefine what a healthy dissipative structure might look like at the scale of the city.';
Sparkies[357] = 'By remembering that cities are magnets for earth\'s resources we can take the first steps to reversing the threats to the wellbeing of the earth into a direction for adding value to life on earth.';
Sparkies[358] = 'The structures, infrastructures and systems of the city derive directly from the nature of the human species. We have evolved into a stage of human history that demands we re-appreciate this relationship, for the sake of our very survival.';
Sparkies[359] = 'The longer the time span of decision sets, the more levels are required to manage the city effectively.';
Sparkies[360] = '... what city in the world has developed a course of study and practise that enables a person to methodically progress from cradle to peak performance at the defined levels of complexity that deliver leadership to the powers 1 through 8?';
Sparkies[361] = '... preparing leaders to the Power of 8, involves capacity development with a curriculum and experience that aligns knowledge, values, structures and life conditions.';
Sparkies[362] = 'The expression and realization of intentions lie at the heart of the city\'s energy &mdash; its joie de vivre, its esprit de corps.';
Sparkies[363] = 'Key examples of changed behaviors in the 20th century testify to this &mdash; specifically, smoking reduction, "particip-action" (practicing regular physical activity) and car seat belt use.';
Sparkies[364] = 'This research seems to indicate, that even though we don\'t yet have all the technology to discern the evolutionary structures of our body and brain, we soon will be able to see that the developmental levels of increasing complexity will be visible and identifiable.';
Sparkies[365] = 'we may be standing on a whole new threshold of human capacity emergence that will make the Level 8 leadership competencies (which we explored in some detail in Chapter 5) look primitive.';
Sparkies[366] = 'the need to see healthcare systems integrated into the fabric of a healthy Integral City is urgent.';
Sparkies[367] = 'until we conduct a cultural and developmental scan of the city with a focus on how citizens define health, we will not realize that definitions of health are values based.';
Sparkies[368] = 'Discovering the myriad interpretations of health, reveals the cultural and developmental sensitivities to health and the related modalities which would be supported by citizens.';
Sparkies[369] = 'the ways that we could embrace emotional, mental and spiritual (ie. intentional) health along with bio-physical health vary by culture.';
Sparkies[370] = 'Design a healthcare system that addresses the bio-psycho-cultural-social system of health of the city that addresses the key cultural sub-populations.';
Sparkies[371] = 'If the purpose of the city healthcare system was to create the conditions for wellbeing in the city, it would have to establish criteria for defining wellbeing. It would then make sense to monitor the performance of the healthcare system in terms of creating and supporting wellbeing in the city.';
Sparkies[372] = '... our senses, our learning and our science now tell us that behaviors in the city can become more intelligent. Our aspirations tell us that we must become more intelligent.';
Sparkies[373] = '... bio-physical existence creates an energy field in and around each person. That energy field is measurable';
Sparkies[374] = 'at least one purpose for people living together in urban density, could be for intentionally embodying a unified energized field, for the purpose of de-stressing others and enabling optimal bio-physical health for the collective of humans in the city?';
Sparkies[375] = 'Without effective City Managers, the city would collapse into chaos.';
Sparkies[376] = 'The public voice of the City Manager is most often recognized as the elected official. But the working voice of the City Manager is the everyday hum of the city water, waste management and transportation systems running.';
Sparkies[377] = 'Civil Society has come to represent the vast army of not-for-profit organizations set up to pay special attention to the caring and sharing work in the city. They are the voice of the city\'s heart.';
Sparkies[378] = 'The dynamic quality of this new voice of Civil Society is changing how the city knows itself and why the city values its cultures.';
Sparkies[379] = '... recently City Developers ... include those who recognize that the invisible cultural life of the city calls for development initiatives as well. Theirs are the voices of the city body/mind.';
Sparkies[380] = 'true City Developers are diversity generators, opening up new territory, new options and new facilities.';
Sparkies[381] = 'Just as Civil Society voices look to redress injustice, indifference and indecision, the voices of City Developers speak of vision, engagement and promise. They convey assurance, optimism and fulfillment.';
Sparkies[382] = 'the role and potential of the media is ultimately limited by the capacities of its publishers (who are the resource allocators); its editors (who are its inner judges); and its reporters (who are its conformity enforcers and diversity generators).';
Sparkies[383] = 'In the living body of the city, media contribute to the flow of information through the city system. Like bees pollinating a flower patch, they mediate information exchange.';
Sparkies[384] = '... media act as reflectors and amplifiers of information and have enormous ethical imperatives to do that responsibly.';
Sparkies[385] = '... the values embedded in media practitioners become the values reflected as the city\'s values.';
Sparkies[386] = '... the media contribute to the quality of life in the city because they become the principle organs that convey the voices of the city.';
Sparkies[387] = 'In the age of multi-media (particularly electronic media) ... much media rely on selective imaging and sound bites to convey stories that titillate and stimulate without investing in the mature act of interpretation.';
Sparkies[388] = 'The world of wireless media is already demonstrating its capacity for accelerating intersubjective exchanges ... even though much of it is also overwhelmed by a pre-occupation with pornography and sex';
Sparkies[389] = 'The city is the container where cultural life unavoidably flourishes.';
Sparkies[390] = 'The industrial revolution brought such an importance to doing and manufacturing, that the pleasures of being, becoming and relating were sidelined.';
Sparkies[391] = 'In pre-industrial revolution cities, interpersonal relationships had such an entrenched history that they anchored cities into values systems, worldviews and ways of relating that they could only be dislodged by disengaging people from one another and their territories within the city.';
Sparkies[392] = 'Only after a generation plus of experience, can we see these experiments [in social housing] clearly show that cultural connections are painfully real and they play a huge role in the viability and enjoyment of any community.';
Sparkies[393] = 'It is as if cultural engagement is like rooting powder for the new transplants into any community.';
Sparkies[394] = 'Culture adds to the wastelands of affordable housing a kind of inducement, encouragement to connect and support.';
Sparkies[395] = 'When we look at the different values people bring to defining community, it seems that community can be viewed not as a place, but as "a process of becoming."';
Sparkies[396] = 'A number of authors ... have observed that the process of "becoming community" evolves (and co-evolves) through multiple phases including chaos and breakdown.';
Sparkies[397] = 'Dialogue allows the process of communication to slow down, so people can tell their story, listen to others, consider new possibilities and make new meaning that potentially leads to different (more informed) behaviors.';
Sparkies[398] = 'Community is that place where the person you least want to live with always lives. ... and when that person moves away, someone else arises immediately to take his or her place.(Parker Palmer)';
Sparkies[399] = '... the capacity for connectedness arises not from any hard work of building communal structures, but of being open to inner work and to resisting the forces of disconnection rampant in our culture and society.';
Sparkies[400] = 'Idealistically, we could ... say that we are living in synchrony with the earth when we, as human complex adaptive systems, connect and serve each other\'s needs in a symbiotic and coherent way. In so doing we experience shared pleasure that goes beyond words.';
Sparkies[401] = 'Perhaps this dualistic nature of being both in competition and in cooperation; of being explorative and exploitive at the same time; of enjoying and struggling with relationship, is how we truly achieve sufficient strength to survive as a species?';
Sparkies[402] = 'The art and science of meshworking is related to making generative connections. We know the connections are generative when new capacities and/or new values emerge from the meshworking process.';
Sparkies[403] = 'Meshworking is often characterized by the presence of an intentional catalyst &mdash; a person who interacts with the system (often by witnessing, inquiring or modeling).';
Sparkies[404] = '... in the brain sciences, it is recognized that catalytic function directs a flow of energy-matter through a system so it shifts from one steady state to another.';
Sparkies[405] = 'Our relationships tell us do we have the capacity to survive together? connect with our environment (including other people)? and reproduce? recreate? regenerate?';
Sparkies[406] = 'The culture of the city represents the lived values of its citizens. It is the perpetual barometer of "what is important around here"?';
Sparkies[407] = '... the city\'s culture is a multitude of sub-cultures, contained by formal and informal boundaries. How we create it, describe it and live it, is a function of our living intelligence and a testament to our capacity to be conscious together.';
Sparkies[408] = 'What is important to individuals in the city is vital to the city\'s success: survival, bonding, personal power, order, productivity, sharing, give and take, world awareness.';
Sparkies[409] = 'While it would seem that people are more in need of the appropriate fitness landscape to optimize their human priorities, in fact such a landscape is also necessary for the creation, maintenance and intentional destruction of the built landscape of artefacts.';
Sparkies[410] = 'We know now that our current built landscape is likely contributing to global warming, so it is changing the larger landscape and we must accept responsibility for it.';
Sparkies[411] = 'We must shift into a systemic mindset where rights, responsibilities and structures become aligned.';
Sparkies[412] = 'Even if we choose to change our structures first, we will necessarily change relationships of people interacting in those structures.';
Sparkies[413] = 'Structures become a visible history of human intentions, choices and relationships.';
Sparkies[414] = 'By studying structures, we can determine organizational and city priorities that relate to complexity and developmental levels.';
Sparkies[415] = 'By recognizing the time factor of role contribution we can recognize both the complexity of work and the quantity of investment required to maintain human structures.';
Sparkies[416] = 'Structures and infrastructures hold the memory of shared intentions. They are the residual patterns and processes captured in matter that first started in the minds of individuals and the shared beliefs and worldviews of the culture that built them.';
Sparkies[417] = 'Without recognizing the importance of order, it is virtually impossible to create a city where the bio-psycho-cultural-social realities of the human condition can flourish.';
Sparkies[418] = '... so great is the demand for infrastructure world-wide &mdash; but especially in China and India &mdash; that infrastructure stocks are returning 60% returns on investment in the last 2 years.';
Sparkies[419] = 'Without a vision the people perish &mdash; and so do the structures that should support them in the fullness of their humanity.';
Sparkies[420] = 'Only by addressing the structural design needs of these systems, will we create the conditions to release the optimized intelligences of the city.';
Sparkies[421] = 'The city\'s greatest dilemma is that traditional forms of governance have practically guaranteed that the requisite levels of structure are not likely to be created, because the decision makers are not sufficiently complex thinkers to create them.';
Sparkies[422] = '... the candidates for political office seek to please the center of gravity of the electorate, so by definition, the voters will vote for the politician who appeals to their comfort zone.';
Sparkies[423] = 'Private-public partnerships are producing healthcare facilities with better outcomes than either stakeholder group can produce on its own.';
Sparkies[424] = 'The purpose of education, healthcare and workplace systems is primarily anchored in the wellbeing of individuals at this time. There is little or no recognition given to the importance of a collective vision.';
Sparkies[425] = 'For the ultimate health of the city, healthcare systems need to address collective health as well as individual health. If this were truly addressed systemically, health would embrace all four quadrants, all eight levels, and embrace healthcare from all the ethnic cultures that have developed multiple modes of healthcare delivery.';
Sparkies[426] = 'In a similar manner, education in the city should be for optimizing collective as well as individual knowledge, skills and abilities. It would focus on lifelong learning and capacity development.';
Sparkies[427] = 'The education system should discover and implement the structures for educators to create the conditions for all citizens to be lifelong learners.';
Sparkies[428] = 'People in workplace systems should be working in conjunction with people in city governance, health systems and education systems to clearly understand how the systems contribute to the wellbeing of the city.';
Sparkies[429] = 'Workplace structures, especially in profit and civil society sectors have special roles to play with the civil service, education and healthcare sectors.';
Sparkies[430] = 'Meshworks, a term derived from brain science, integrate hierarchies and self-organizing webs of relationships.';
Sparkies[431] = 'Meshworking structures in the city coordinate different capacities, functions, and locations so that alignment and coherence result in an integrated operating strategy and/or emergency response.';
Sparkies[432] = 'A meshwork combines both the self-organizing results of complex-adaptive human systems with the replicatable backbone of hierarchical organization.';
Sparkies[433] = 'Meshworking simultaneously recognizes boundaries that contain systems, and embraces the interconnection of all systems within even larger systems.';
Sparkies[434] = 'Meshworking, essentially re-values and re-calibrates hierarchies, so they can support and leverage self-organizing processes.';
Sparkies[435] = 'The building of bridges, connections, collaborations and links between hierarchies and across self-organizing systems, means that a meshwork is highly relationship based. Governance systems make visible the relationship amongst the strata of the hierarchies and the self-organizing systems flowing amongst them.';
Sparkies[436] = 'For the most part the world is in great need of new governance systems that enable the necessary hierarchies to provide accountabilities and smooth flows of energy, information and matter to serve values centers.';
Sparkies[437] = 'For the most part cities are required to deliver the most quantity and greatest quality of resources to most citizens of any system yet created by man.';
Sparkies[438] = '... "higher" levels of government lack the mandate or incentive for city success. This is an impasse that must change despite the fact that higher levels of government control the financial purse strings of cities through taxation.';



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