Ghost Cities

18 09, 2017

New Urban Crisis – Plurality Analysis Needs Wholistic Integral City Frame

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-09-19T14:16:29+00:00September 18th, 2017|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Action, B. Individual Intelligences, Book 2, C. Collective Intelligences, Designing Impact, Ecosphere, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Placecaring, Placemaking|Tags: Australia, Boston, Britain, Geoffrey West, Ghost Cities, integral, integral city, Jane Jacobs, Master Code, Milton Friedman, Minister of Cities, Musk, neo-cities, New Urban Crisis, NYC, Richard Florida, Senate of Cities, The Creative Class, Tobin, Washington, Who's Your City, whole systems thinking|0 Comments

Professor of Cities, Richard Florida has reconsidered the consequences of cities pursuing the creative class as a desirable strategy for their success (subject of his book The Rise of the Creative Class). In his new book The New Urban Crisis: How our Cities are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class – [...]

21 08, 2016

A City Without People is not a City

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:19+00:00August 21st, 2016|Categories: Building - Structures, Inner, Spirituality, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: brick lungs, Burtinsky, Caemmerer, China, consciousness, culture, eyes on the street, Ghost Cities, Gorbals, Inuit relocation, Jane Jacobs, Regent's Park, relocations, soul, soulless city, Wired|5 Comments

A series of articles on China’s empty cities triggers a series of Integral City thought capsules and thought experiments. China Ghost City , Photographed by Caemmerer According to a Wired article, China has built 100's of cities to house millions of people over the next 20 years. Today they stand empty. No people in [...]