Out beyond the smart city, out beyond the resilient city, Lives the Integral City. Integral City Thinking Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change, by Tam Lundy, that acted as a Guide to appreciating all the articles. Tam’s Tip gave the reader an energy boost as you passed [...]
Humans and the cities we have created are permanently locked into a never-ending learning cycle, to create ever more complex adaptations to protect increasingly more complex cities. In the Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (2012), five critical threats to human populations in cities were identified: climate, energy, water, food and finance (Hamilton et al., 2013; [...]
Cities are the most complex, diverse, and novel human construction. I love them. Gaia Whispers At the most basic level, cities are made of zillions of tiny connections: the interactions of people conducting their lives in them. It makes me feel so alive! Exhilarating! In Humanity’s New Story, city-zens live better when [...]
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 Place. … When we consider the complexity of hierarchies and centers that make up a city, it is easy to see why cities represent the pinnacle of human [...]
How do you optimize the impact of Integral City impact by getting our work out to the world? That is the next question that Roger Walsh asked at IEC. First consider how important integral ideas are at this time in the world. The city is the most complex system created by humans – and as [...]
This blog continues to share the Findings from the research conducted in three Learning Lhabitats exploring the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. Today we compare the results that open wider understanding of the role of the Civic Manager Voice in the city, from Learning Lhabitats [...]
Civic Managers gained the most empathy from the other voices of the ITC2013 Learning Lhabitat . In the closing circle, Cityzens in particular, were heard to declare, "I never realized the role of Civic Manager was so challenging. I have a whole new respect for Civic Managers." Civic Managers Managing City Systems Here is [...]
We are starting a new set of Integral City learning (ad)ventures. We call them Learning Lhabitats. Learning Laboratories and Habitats are being designed for people who sense a new Integrator Role is emerging in cities. They know MUCH change is needed and MANY voices are clamouring for attention. Those concerns lead to key questions, city [...]
Continuing on the theme of Regenerativity, I remember well how 4 women (1) from a Saeculum (2) of Generations shared their Gifts to the Future Generations (at the World Future Society 2011). We called it BIRTHING NEW OPENINGS FOR LIFE . Recognizing that we have arrived at the 4th turning of the Planetary Shift, we designed a [...]
Integral City how do we map the rhythms and dynamics of your life? In the last five posts we have explored the five Maps of Integral City. Each reveals new territory. I have described the merits of Maps 1,2,3 and 4 (borrowing from the organizational icons in the book Spiral Dynamics) in the audio (and printed) book, Integral City: [...]