alignment

What is a Principle in Relation to Integral City Practice?

This exploration of core principles that can inform a Planet of Cities, needs to be unpacked in two ways so it is useful for our inquiry. First let's define what a principle is and second let's set the scope of what we will consider in this series of explorations. We start with the definition. Oxford Online [...]

Integral City Map 4: Shape-shifting Structures That Fit

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:30+00:00February 19th, 2013|Categories: Building - Structures, Emergence, Integral Maps, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM|Tags: alignment, boundary, complexity, emergence, field, hierarchy, holarchy, holon, innovation eco-system, meshwork, network, organizations, Pattern Dynamics, self-organizing system, Structure Pattern, whole systems thinking|12 Comments

Integral City how do we honor the many systems, structures and infrastructures that have emerged to shape you ? Map 4 offers us a cartography of organizational forms so we can appreciate how many functions serve the complexity of city life. Integral City Map 4: The Complex Adaptive Structures of Change The built structures [...]