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11 09, 2016

City Day: Why Don’t We Celebrate the Most Complex Human System?

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:18+00:00September 11th, 2016|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Integral Maps, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures, Voices|Tags: 911, Barnett, Brussels, celebration of the city, City Day, culture, Delhi, Earth Day, emergence, Fifteenth Anniversary, Friedman, holons, integral city intelligences, Moscow, New York City, NYC, Orlando, Paris, Richard Register, San Bernardino, September 11|2 Comments

Celebration MIA On this fifteenth anniversary of both the infamy and redress of New York’s 9/11 World Trade Center attack, I look around the world at the many days we set aside as celebrations and I am struck by a major omission. We celebrate the planet with Earth Day. Most nations celebrate a Nation Day [...]

21 02, 2011

Internet Connections Create Tipping Points in Cities

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:39+00:00February 21st, 2011|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Barnett, complexity, connections, Gladwell, integral city intelligences, internet, map, revolution, virus|2 Comments

Revolution is spreading through the north African and Middle Eastern countries - the inflammation has started in cities and spreads to other cities. Why are these cities the nodes of contagion? I can't help notice that all these cities (and nations) were on Thomas Barnett's New Map in 2004. He included them in his proposition [...]