One of the interesting responses and strategies for responding to covid19 has been to define the right-size for co-existing in the same space in cities. But while the rules may be useful (if not true) they are only partial. They are focusing on only one of four possible city “spaces”. Firstly, the most [...]
Elisabet Sahtouris – who wrote the Foreword to Edition 2 of Book 1, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the human hive – contends that humans have evolved the 3rd great leap for evolutionary complexity. The first happened with the emergence of nucleated cells, the second came with the emergence of multi-celled creatures, and [...]
One of the most impactful and fascinating insights about the relationship of humans to the Earth from which we have evolved, came from James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Hypothesis – that the Earth herself is a living system. Lovelock contends that humans are not mere banes on the Earth – but have [...]
Right-sizing cities is not just a matter of looking at the internal conditions for the quality of life of city inhabitants or their myriad organizations. Right-sizing cities is a matter of right-sizing our cities in relationship to the eco-region that they are situated in. Just as bees right-size their hives because of the [...]
This is a question I am often asked when I speak about Integral City. I have given it a lot of thought over the years. My first impulse was to remember why the honey bee hive is about 50,000 bees (in the natural state – and up to 70,000 or so in domestic [...]
Last week I was inspired by the focus of Urban Arena Europe (UAE) to consider Social Justice and Sustainability in the cities of Europe. As an Urban Arena Europe Fellow, I had expected to meet in person at a Barcelona conference on June 4 and 5, 2020 to review the research that had [...]
Accelerate City Change in our VUCA World: This is a Special Integral City Reflective Organ Issue to hear from the 4+1 Voices of Integral City. As the planet of cities is in a cycle of unprecedented lockdowns, physical distancing and shielding, we want to get up close and personal with the Power of the [...]
I am very "chuffed" with the release of the new graphic e-book Urban Hub 20: Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World It was conceived from imagining how the Power of the Master Code of Care could catalyze city change. The contributors who imagined with me for this book, not only shared their powerful [...]
Urban Hub 20 - Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World Read the News Flash Announcement here. Take a look inside the book Introduction, Contributors and Section Heads below. Then scroll to the end to obtain your own copy (206 full colour pages). We hope you enjoy our co-creation from the Integral World [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Planet. ...when we bring together the 4+1 Voices of many cities, we can cocreate the next generation of IT—the Integral Technology that will enable us to design cities [...]