As a follow up to my blog on the Systems and Resilience Cycles for the Restoration of Sendai, Integral City Spiritual Advisor, Terry Patten blogs a much needed set of practices for dealing with the News - good, bad and otherwise. Terry says: "The news so far during 2011 has been particularly electrifying: Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, [...]
How do you integrate five of the resilience models that I have used in Integral City? How can they help us understand how to respond, repair and restore the city as a living system in disasters like we have seen this year in Brisbane, Christchurch and Sendai? Integral City(p. 43) illustrates the four stages of the resilience cycle as they progress through [...]
I spent last week at Royal Roads University delivering the first Residency of the Sustainability Graduate Certificate. Ten students from across Canada provided a rigorous proving ground for the Integral City approach to sustainability. Using the Integral City Compass to prove the design with three leverage points, here is what we did. Integral City Compass [...]
February Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Heart : Through the negotiation of relationships, boundaries are recognized, linked, crossed, embraced, broken, denied and redefined. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.182 As I write, the clashes in the Middle East have the rest [...]
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 [...]
We are starting a new season of Integral City Telecourse Training, with The Map, the Mesh and the Human Hive. This is a three week telecourse. Class size limited to 10 for personalized engagement. Course includes complete Talking Book of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligence for the Human Hive. Learn how to see the city as [...]
Globe Award 2010 – Leading Sustainability Awards The Brazilian city Curitiba awarded the Globe Sustainable City Award 2010 STOCKHOLM, April 7, 2010 − The Brazilian city Curitiba wins the Globe Sustainable City Award 2010. The city of Curitiba is awarded for excellent sustainable urban development. The Globe Award statuette will be presented to representatives from [...]
PRESS RELEASE Globe Award 2010 – Leading Sustainability Awards The world’s best sustainable cities in the running for Globe Sustainable City Award 2010 STOCKHOLM, March 23, 2010 − Six cities extensively working in the sustainability area have been nominated for the Globe Sustainable City Award 2010. The City Award − one of four categories of [...]
I have begun to reframe the results of Copenhagen Climate Forum in light of my experience over the years with changing the political will/mind. Two decades ago, in the small city where I live, I served as President of the Chamber of Commerce. Actually the Chamber served two municipalities which had grown together so closely [...]
In the Human Hive, we need truth, beauty and goodness to sustain our capacities and encourage creative impulses. It is not always easy to find them in cities designed from pre-modern, modern and post-modern design principles. Someone who is committed to changing that is Mark Dekay, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, University of [...]