Spring Equinox Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkies for City Diversity Generators: What city in the world has developed a course of study and practise that enables a person to methodically progress from cradle to peak prformance at the defined levels of complexity that deliver leadership to the powers 1 through [...]
December Solstice Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkies for City Emergence: The larger the city the more likely it will span a wider and wider spectrum of individual purposes; ghettoes of differing purposes and intentions will emerge and the demands of governance will need to address these discontinuities. p.181 [...]
September Equinox Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for City Embodiment : The carrying capacity for each city is intimately tied to its eco-region, even though cities have attempted to import their needs from increasingly distant locations. (Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.152) [...]
June Solstice Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Body : Cultural cohesion can be measured through metrics tracking energetic noise and resonance. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.299 The generational wave is a supra-wave of human life patterns that embraces many of [...]
February Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Heart : Through the negotiation of relationships, boundaries are recognized, linked, crossed, embraced, broken, denied and redefined. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.182 As I write, the clashes in the Middle East have the rest [...]
I have just finished editing an interview I did with one of Integral City's Advisors, Will Varey, of Emergnc in December, 2010. It will be posted for readers' listening pleasure on Meshcasts later today. We had a most wide-ranging dialogue that explored cities as living systems. Will's grounding in sustainability provided a "pingable" trampoline to explore the ecology [...]
November Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Brain : … a tension in favor of the values and behavior that are most coherent with the current life conditions will tend to be maintained. The flip side of this behavior is that the dominant culture will protect itself against [...]
September Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Body: When we reframe the city, from being merely the built environment outside of us, to the built environment as simply an extension of us, our relationship with the “objective” city becomes ever so much more personal. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral [...]
July Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City We are already into the second half of 2010! Happy 4th of July to American readers! This is a quick link summary of what we have been up to in the first half of 2010 and where we will be going in the second half of 2010. (These are [...]