2010 has been a transition gateway year
2010 has been a transition gateway year - like 2000 was. What is it in our human psyche that marks the aught (0 ending) years for change?
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12, 2010
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11, 2010
Cities: Innovation Ecosystems Drivers of a Sustainable Future
Globe Forum Dublin ...cities are very much social-ecological systems. Cities represent the hopes and dreams of the people that live in them and they also represent perhaps the best hope for reversing large-scale ecological decline, social breakdowns and economic stagnation. Each session though had its own flavour.... The final speaker was the blue-sky thinker, Dr [...]
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11, 2010
Sense in the City News Update November 2010
November Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Brain : … a tension in favor of the values and behavior that are most coherent with the current life conditions will tend to be maintained. The flip side of this behavior is that the dominant culture will protect itself against [...]
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11, 2010
Human Hive Judging if Should Swallow Tough Medicine or Stave Off Disaster?
Further to the Australian Federal Elections reported here in September. And the US Elections completed two weeks ago, I am noticing more action in the human hive, that says Resource Allocators and Inner Judges are busy trying to decide what to do next. The US Elections brought similar results to those in Australia -- very [...]
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11, 2010
Alberta Professional Planners Institute 2010 Conference
At the World Planners Congress (WPC), in June, 2006 I witnessed a notable public paradigm shift when Planning Leaders from around the world issued a position paper on the New Urban Planning (Farmer et al., 2006). In 2006, the authors stated that New Urban Planning was smart planning because it is a responsive learning system. [...]
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11, 2010
Integral City Interview Zoom’d Radio/Voice of America
Marilyn Hamilton talks to host John Schmidt of Avastone Consulting re Integral City on Zoomd Radio. Click here for the link. We talked about the Integral City as the Human Hive - and how that enables Leadership, Relationships and Resilience. Examples that were used included New Orleans and Burning Man. Listen to the broadcast or download it [...]
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10, 2010
October 2010 Sense in the City News Update
October Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Heart: 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 [...]
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10, 2010
Sustainable City Awards 2010
Globe City Awards has announced the commencement of the 2010 awards process. The overview can be found here http://globeaward.org/sustainable_city . This award focuses on a holistic approach to Sustainability in cities and integrates different types of resources or capital for a better future in cities around the world. The Conceptual approach is to use the different [...]
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09, 2010
September Sense in the City Updates
September Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Body: 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. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral [...]
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09, 2010
Australia, Minority Governments and What the Human Hive is Saying About Eco-Regions
I have been watching the outcome (or not?) of the recent Australian election with some interest. I have been thinking about swarming (as in what can we learn from the bees when they swarm?). My bee sources (books, articles, movies) tell me that the swarming process is a kind of hive decision. That when it [...]