Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, Ferguson, Nice, Orlando, Dallas, Lahore, Baton Rouge, Istanbul. The world’s cities seem threatened from within and without. When Integral City sponsored the Online Webinar 2012, we learned the five major threats that all cities faced were: climate, energy, water, food and finance. Since then we have added a sixth threat that [...]
When we place all the locators of our GPS compass in the service of our cities, we have the very real opportunity of re-calibrating our intentions, expectations and outcomes for cities. Working together as 4 Voices of the City, we have the intelligence to go beyond the Smart City beloved of Civic Managers and Citizens, [...]
Building on the Russian translation of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive Team ARGO in Izhevsk, Russia created Russia’s first citizen initiated and produced urban conference. Accomplishing “lift-off” in the first half of 2014 and subsequent dissemination of the best practices through 360 degree communications, Team ARGO are the natural winners of [...]
International Organization for Standards (ISO) has announced a new standard for quality of life in cities. ISO City Standard (retrieved from http://conference.cityminded.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Patricia_McCarney_PDF.pdf) In London, UK on November 17-18, 2014, ISO in conjunction the World Council on City Data (WCCD) launches the the first international standard for sustainable cities, ISO 37120: Sustainable development of communities [...]
I am Integral City. Web of Conversations I am a web of constant, connecting, mysteriously transformative conversations, manifesting the 12 City Intelligences, [i] amongst my 4 voices[ii] — citizens, government, organizations, and businesses. Some people align towards, others resist, co-creating a more beautiful and sustainable world. Worldviews expand from self, to city, to world, [...]
Eleven organizations contributed to the research behind the book Reinventing Organizations, by author Frederic Laloux. If so few organizations passed the filter of Tier 2 qualifications will we have to wait centuries for enough organizations to mature to this stage before we can reinvent our cities? That is a sobering thought – and one that [...]
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 [...]
An old African tale relates how to take care of the wellbeing of elephants. ((1) As told to me by Dr. Don Beck). It seems a herd of elephants became very sick. The villagers consulted with the big city veterinarian who came to diagnose the ailment. But he could do nothing. Then the villagers consulted [...]
What happens when business leaders expand their skills in service to thriving that is greater than just the success of one organization? The Integral Community hopes and dreams that leaders will transfer their leadership skills into their organization and impact the success of their employees. In turn the improvement of leadership skills throughout the organization should impact [...]
The story of the Imagine Abbotsford Dialogues was well documented in the three years that this city visioning process unfolded (by the local community paper publishing nine special sections for each of the dialogues). This story could be told through any of the 4 voices. Civil Society partners sponsored the project (Abbotsford Community Foundation, Community [...]