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 [...]

Tallinn Old Town is an intriguing, magical, historic location full of turrets, castle walls and Hanseatic architecture that used to make it the most popular tourist attraction for the many tourists who visit by land and sea in the summer months. But Old Town has been replaced by Telliskivi, Tallinn’s Creative City as the [...]

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 People. Designing on, with, and as the Integral City derives from our understanding of the developmental capacities that evolve in the people who act as designers. [...]

Caring in my granddaughter is an expression of moral influence. Caring may be considered her inner journey. It gives her an inner view of her reality. She experiences it as four perspectival stances: herself as I; others as You/We; habitat as It; and planet as Its. Deepening care unfolds her patterns of expanding [...]

The human hive - the equivalent habitat for our species of the honeybee’s hive – represents man’s most complex system yet created. In all its qualities – both dignities and disasters -  it is an expression of the deepest essence of man’s creative capacities. James Lovelock (2009) recently recognized homo sapiens as Gaia’s [...]