The Integral City GPS image is the central guiding metaphor to use for navigating the 5 Sets of Integral City Intelligences. This is more dynamic and systemic than the quadrant model alone, as it shows relational flow, directionality, and the evolutionary propulsion of the city as a living system. Let's explore the GPS structure in [...]
This year’s Integral City Award is to an ecosystem with three sub-systems each of which and all together are demonstrating Integral City Intelligences. The first subsystem is Neighbourhood Parliaments – now often know as Neighbourhood Democracy or Neighborocracy. The second is Children’s Parliaments. The third sub-system is SONEC. Let’s consider the “organs” in [...]
Designing a Peace Room for Integral Cities of Peace Barbara Marx Hubbard used to imagine a Peace Room (instead of war room) where we could overview the emergence of Peace. Here is how Living Cities::Earth could develop a possible design. An energy field for recovering a broken City growing the potential for an Integral [...]
My exploration of cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs, rests on the assumption that our planet Earth is a living system – as proposed by James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Hypothesis. In the last few months I have gathered confidence that this perspective that our planet is a living system is now being shared [...]
This interview (in 2 parts) with Marilyn Hamilton, Founder of Integral City Meshworks took place in August 2018 after the Integral Europe Conference. Interviewer Alain Gauthier has recently moved to Portland Oregon and is curious about how Integral City frameworks might inform the ways he wishes to serve the city. Alain has a most [...]