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Integral City Book Series
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Integral City has curated the Urban Hub 20 graphic book and developed the Integral City Book Series.
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Urban Hub 20 e-book is now available in Spanish – Translation by Raquel Torrent, Curator Marilyn Hamilton.
“This is a truly brilliant and much needed presentation. The author has brought together an extremely intelligent group of writers and thinkers to apply Integral principles to the problems and creative openings of city, regions, ecosystems, and the biosphere itself. Each one of these areas is treated as a living, complex, integral system, and the ways that they all mutually interact are fully explored, with the added benefit that they are all looked through an integral lens, insuring that a fully whole and complete path is taken. There is really no other approach like this available, and certainly none that give as full and comprehensive and inclusive an account. I can’t recommend this approach more highly, it truly touches a level of genius.” Ken Wilber—Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; The Integral Vision
Urban Hub 20 imagines how the Power of the Master Code of Care can catalyze city change? Over 20 contributors show how their practices contribute to the wellbeing of the Human Hive as a whole, living, complex adaptive system. In collaborating for this volume, we offer a service to a VUCA World (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) – offering our integrally informed specialities to discover solutions for the world’s BIG challenges. As we emerge into the recovery stages of the pandemic (again), we know that the Integral City’ s Urban Hub 20 approach to People, Place and Planet offers powerful designs for regenerating wellbeing and enlivening the next stage of evolution for the Human Hive.
Urban Hub 20 – Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World is the twentieth book in the series from Integral Urban Hub and IntegralMENTORS. For this 20:20 vision of our VUCA world we have asked the creator of Integral City Meshworks Dr. Marilyn Hamilton to take on the task of our first-ever guest curator. Marilyn, author of the Integral City Book Series, has a vast experience in this area with a great network of fellow integralists. She has been inspired by the pioneer of city planning and sociology Patrick Geddes. His Outlook Tower, Camera Obscura and Summer Schools renewed old Edinburgh. We hope that the results of this highly readable and informative volume can renew and regenerate cities today. Together we have imagined how an Integral City Meshwork enables us to respond in a wholistic way to the life conditions of our VUCA world. Read about the Contents here.
Listen to an Interview about the book here.
Here are 3 ways to access the book:
New links for the e-book in English:
Book 1, Edition 2 Integral City Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive by Marilyn Hamilton has a new Foreword by Elisabet Sahtouris. The book describes the sciences behind the Integral City meta-model . You will learn the importance of 12 intelligences that are vital to the emergence of Gaia’s Reflective Organ at the scale of the city. The 12 chapters are grouped into 5 sections reflecting the 5 sets of intelligences as follows:
- Contexting (Ecosphere, Emerging, Integral, Living)
- Individual (Inner, Outer)
- Collective (Building, Storytelling)
- Strategic (Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating)
- Evolutionary
Click here to listen to Podcast Introduction to the Book read by the Author.
Book 2, Edition 2. Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive, by Marilyn Hamilton. With Foreword by Paul van Schaik. This is the field guide to Book 1. Learn how to add value to the city through inquiry, action and impact that changes you as you change the city.
Click here for publication announcement and summary of book 2, edition 1.
Click here to listen to Podcast Introduction to the Book read by the Author.
Click here to purchase the book or the downloadable e-book.
Click here to read What People Say re Integral City Inquiry&Action
Book 3 Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia’s Human Hives by Marilyn Hamilton engages many of the wicked problems and intractable conundrums all cities face. It applies and expands in multiple directions the 12 intelligences described in Book 1, and builds on the field work of Book 2. It explores three practices for designing a collective urban life that works for all life; namely, Caring, Contexting and Capacity Building.
Click here to read What People Are Saying About Integral City 3.7
Click here to listen to Podcast Introduction to the Book read by the Author.
Book 1 – Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, by Marilyn Hamilton. This is the core book that discusses the 12 intelligences of the human hive. It introduces the 4 Voices, Maps 1-2-3-4 and the Master Code with many examples from cities around the world.
Click here to purchase the PDF or the downloadable e-book.
Books by Quadrant
This selection of books provides a bibliography of many of the references used in Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive and the other books in the Integral City Book Series.
The list is in order by author’s last name. The Code column indicates the primary Integral Quadrant – or AQAL domain the book focuses on. Click on the book image and read more about it on the book retailer page.
AQAL Code:
UL = Upper Left – Leader / Quality of Life Citizen
LL = Lower Left – Culture / Civil Society
UR = Upper Left – Behavior / City Manager
LR = Lower Right / City Business Developer
4Q8L = Four Quadrants, 8 Levels of Development
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Adizes, I. (1999), Managing Corporate Life Cycles, Prentice Hall Press, Paramus, NJ
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Alexander, Christopher. (1977), A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press, USA
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Alexander, Christopher. (2004), The Phenomenon of Life: The Nature of Order Book 1, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley California
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Alexander, Christopher. (2004), The Process of Creating Life : The Nature of Order Book 2, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley California
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Alexander, Christopher. (2004), A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order Book 3, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley California
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Alexander, Christopher. (2004), The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order Book 4, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley California
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Barnett, T., (2004), The Pentagon’s New Map, Penguin Group (USA), New York
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Barrett, R. (2006), Building a Values Driven Organization: A Whole Systems Approach to Cultural Transformation, Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK
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Barrett, R. (1998), Liberating the Corporate Soul, Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, Woburn, MA
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Beck, D., Cowan, C. (1999), Spiral Dynamics, Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA.
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Bloom, Howard, (2000), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, John Wiley & Sons
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Brown, Lester, (2006), Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, W. W. Norton
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Bushe, G. (2001), Clear Leadership, Davies-Black Publishing, Palo Alto, CA
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Capra, Fritjof, (1996), The Web of Life, Anchor Books Ð Doubleday
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Combs, A. (2002),The Radiance of Being: Understanding the Grand Integral Vision; Living the Integral Life, Paragon House, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1993), The Evolving Self, Harper Perennial, Harper Collins, New York
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Dawkins, Richard, (1991), The Blind Watchmaker, Penguin Books
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Dawkins, Richard, (1976,1989, 2006), The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, NY, NY
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Diamond, J.,(2005) Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fall or Succeed, Viking, NY, NY
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Diamond, J.,(1999) Guns Germs and Steel, W.W. Norton and Company NY, NY
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Eoyang, G. (1997), Coping With Chaos: Seven Simple Tools, Lagumo Corp., Cheyenne, WY
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Fernandez-Armesto, R., (2001), Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature, Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster, NY, NY
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Friedman, T., (2005), The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
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Friedman, T., (1999), The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
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Graves, Clare, (2003), The Levels of Human Existence, Eclet Publishing, Santa Barbara 4Q8L
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Gunderson, L. (Editor), Holling, C.S. (Editor), (2002) Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems, Island Press, WA, DC.
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Hamilton, M. (2019). Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive Edition 2, Amaranth Press, Minneapolis, MN
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Harwell, Karen, Reynolds, Joanne. (2006). Exploring a Sense of Place
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Homer-Dixon, T.,(2006), The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
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Homer-Dixon, T.,(2002)The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future. New York: Vintage Books.
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Inam, A., (2005), Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, NY, NY
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Jacobs, J.,(1961, 1992), The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage Books, NY
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Jacobs, J.,(1969), The Economy of Cities, Vintage Books, NY
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Jacobs, J. (1992), Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, Random House, New York
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Jacobs, J. (2000), The Nature of Economies, Vintage Books, New York
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Jacobs, J. (1992), Dark Age Ahead, Random House, New York
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James, S., Lahti, T.(2004), The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices,New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, CA
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Johnston, D., Master, K., (2004), Green Remodeliing: Chaning the World One Room At a Time, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, CA, ISBN 0-86571-498-3
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Kegan, R. (1994), In Over Our Heads, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
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Kelly, S. and Allison M.A., (1998) The Complexity Advantage, McGraw Hill
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Korten, D., (2006) The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, Kumerian Press Inc., Bloomfield, CT
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Kowal, Jaime, (2006) Waking Up The West Coast: Healers and Visionaries, Catalyst Publications, Vancouver
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Laszlo, E., (2006) Chaos Point, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Inc., Charlottesville, VA
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Laszlo, E., (2006) Science and the Re-Enchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont
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Mau, B.,Leonard, J., Institute Without Boundaries (2004), Massive Change, Phaidon Press Ltd., New York
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Mileti, Dennis, (2006), Disasters by Design:A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States (Natural Hazards and Disasters), publisher tbd
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| Miller, J.G. (1978), Living Systems, McGraw Hill, New York UR, LR
Out of print. High value if you find a used copy |
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Monbiot,G. Prescott, M. (2007). Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning. Toronto: Anchor Canada.
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Morgan, Gareth, (1998), images of Organization, Berrett-Koehler
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Moyer, W., McAllister, J., Finley M., Soifer, S., (2005) Doing Democracy, New Society Publishers, Galiano Island, BC, CA
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Northwest Environment Watch (2005, 2006), Cascadia Scorecard: Seven Key Trends Shaping the Northwest, Seattle
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Pinchot E. & Pinchot G., (1993), The End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization, Berrett-Koehler
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Register, R. (2005), Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance With Nature, New Society Publishers, Galiano Island, BC, CA
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Rifkin, Jeremy. (2009). The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
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Sanguin, B. (2008). The Emerging Church: A Model for Change & a Map of Renewal,Copperhouse LL
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Schein, E., (1999), The Corporate Culture Survival Guide, John Wiley & Sons
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Short, R. (1998), Learning in Relationship, Learning in Action Technologies, Seattle
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Silverman, Lori, (2006)Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
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Smith, A., & MacKinnon, J. B. (2007). The 100-Mile Diet. New York: Random House Canada.
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Talbot, M. (1991), The Holographic Universe, HarperPerennial, New York
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Wackernagel, M., Rees, W.(1996), Our Ecological Footprint, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, CA
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Wade, J. (1996), Changes of Mind, SUNY, New York
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Wallace-Wells, D. (2019), The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future, Penguin Random House UK
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Wenger, E.,McDermott, R. Snyder, W., (2002), Cultivating Communities of Practice, Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston
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Wenger, E., (1998), Communities of Practice, Cambridge University Press
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Wheatley, Margaret, (2000), Leadership & The New Sciences, Berrett-Koehler
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Wheatley, M., Kellner-Rogers, (1996) A Simpler Way, Berrett-Koehler
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Wilber, K. (1995), Sex Ecology and Spirituality, Shambhala, Boston
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Wilber, K. (1996), A Brief History of Everything, Shambhala, Boston
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Wilber, K. (2000a), A Theory of Everything, Shambhala, Boston
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Wilber, K. (2000b), Integral Psychology, Shambhala, Boston
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Wilber, K. (2001),Marriage of Sense & Soul, Random House, New York
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Wilber, K. (2002), Boomeritis, Shambhala, Boston
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Winchester, S. (2001), The Map That Changed the World, Penguin Books, London, UK
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