Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive

by Marilyn Hamilton

Overview

Evolving city intelligences mesh, multiply and integrate all city capacities. This book makes courageous placemaking connections, opens up new relationship pathways, brings hope for solving intractable problems and shows how cities are learning. Integral City takes an evolutionary perspective for city resilience.

Chapters explore:
• 4 meta-maps for city wholeness
• Bio-psycho-cultural-social intelligences for city change
• 12 appreciative inquiries for evolutionary direction
• Meshworking strategies for city learning
• Integral Vital Signs Monitors for city wellbeing
• 12 sets of simple rules for complex adaptiveness

Integral City will appeal to anyone interested in creating conditions in which our cities can evolve intelligently beyond the challenges of the 21st century.

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is a “meshworker” and founder of Integral City, creating conditions for the evolution of healthy ecologies in people systems. She has over twenty-five years of international experience catalyzing urban community and organizational change and has written numerous books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998031750
Publisher:	Amaranth Press
Publication date:	12/31/2019
Series:	Integral City , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	380
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Marilyn Hamilton is Founder of Integral City Meshworks and author of the Integral City Book Series-Book 1-Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, Book 2-Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive and Book 3-Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia's Human Hives. Marilyn produced the Integral City 2.0 Online Conference 2012 and was Guest Editor/Curator for Integral Leadership Review-Canada Issue, January-February, 2015. A city evolutionist, prAQtivist, author, researcher, and academic, Marilyn co-creates a global constellation of Integral City Meshworkers, Learning Lhabitats, Peer Associations, and City Institutes. She incubates resilience and transformation strategies with Civic Leaders, Civil Society, Business and Community Voices that enable the Human Hive-Gaia's Most Reflective Organ-to balance Place Caring with Place Making. She and her teams have been guiding cities for over 20 years, to develop long term visions, values and missions, organizational capacities, and the strategies to improve city well-being that looks after Self, Other, Place, and Planet. www.integralcity.com Tw: @integralcity Blog: marilyn.integralcity.com

Table of Contents

CONTENTS:

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE: EVOLUTIONARY REFLECTIONS

1—ECOSPHERE INTELLIGENCE: LOCATING PLACES FOR THE HUMAN HIVE

2—EMERGING INTELLIGENCE: SEEING WHOLENESS IN THE HUMAN HIVE

3—INTEGRAL INTELLIGENCE: CHARTING PATTERNS OF THE HUMAN HIVE

4—LIVING INTELLIGENCE: LIVING AND DYING IN THE HUMAN HIVE

5—INNER INTELLIGENCE: CONSCIOUS CAPACITY IN THE HUMAN HIVE

6—OUTER INTELLIGENCE: EMBODYING RIGHT ACTION IN THE HUMAN HIVE

7—BUILDING INTELLIGENCE: CREATING STRUCTURES THAT FLEX AND FLOW IN THE HUMAN HIVE

8—STORY INTELLIGENCE: FEEDING EACH OTHER IN THE HUMAN HIVE

9—INQUIRY INTELLIGENCE: RELEASING POTENTIAL IN THE HUMAN HIVE

10—MESHING INTELLIGENCE: ENABLING ORDER AND CREATIVITY IN THE HUMAN HIVE

11—NAVIGATING INTELLIGENCE: DIRECTIONAL DASHBOARDS FOR THE HUMAN HIVE

12—EVOLVING INTELLIGENCES: IMAGINING THE FUTURE FOR HUMAN HIVES

CONCLUSION

QUESTIONS

POSTSCRIPT—APPLIED INTELLIGENCES: RESOURCES FOR THRIVING IN YOUR HUMAN HIVE

HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?

WHERE TO NEXT?

GLOSSARY

REFERENCES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Editorial Reviews

Marilyn Hamilton was an early researcher of Integral frameworks. Integral City Edition 2 is a significant application of the Integral model to the city scale of human systems. With more than 60% of humanity now living in cities, I recommend you learn how Integral City gives us critical intelligences to evolve in the human hive.

--Ken Wilber, Integral Philosopher & Visionary, author of Sex, Ecology & Spirituality; Integral Vision; Integral Spirituality

Integral City provides an important vision for how we can begin to inhabit our cities with an evolutionary intelligence that promises to allow both people and planet to flourish. With the meta-framework presented here, Marilyn Hamilton joins and extends the integrative tradition of Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford, and Jane Jacobs. In particular she helps us understand the myriad connections between behavioral and systemic dimensions of urban landscapes with the psychological and cultural aspects. Drawing on a variety of examples from municipal systems, city politics, public space, cartography, and regional values assessment, she enacts a bee-dance instructing us how we too can fly to the nourishing pollen of a new tomorrow.

--Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Ph.D., Co-author of Integral Ecology; Founder MetaIntegral, Executive Editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice; and Past Chair of the Integral Theory Department at John. F. Kennedy University.

What will be the most dramatic technological breakthrough of the 21st Century? As Marilyn Hamilton demonstrates in her masterful book, it may very well be a truly integral city. Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive is a powerful application of the "meta-theory" of integral philosophy that is bound to change the way we understand our urban environments. And improving the life of our cities may turn out to be one of the most dramatic ways that an evolutionary perspective can advance the human condition. I highly recommend this exciting and insightful book.

--Steve McIntosh, author of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution.

Integral City is an outstanding book that will create a whole new paradigm for understanding cities and the discipline of urban studies. It moves the discussion from fragmentation and disconnects to wholeness and integration, with the incorporation of several fresh frameworks for research and theoretical explanation. Urban studies from here on in will be defined by the rich contribution of this seminal work that will become the definitive textbook in the field.

--Caleb Rosado, Ph.D., Professor of Urban Studies and Director Urban Studies Program, Warner Pacific College

Integral City literally takes multiple perspectives, makes uncommon sense of them, and integrates them--often breathtakingly--in a whole systems view of the city like no other. Through the book there is the prospect of emerging a new understanding of the city, that is essentially more of an overstanding--possibly mind-boggling for some, tantalizing for others, and quite delicious for anyone already attracted by integral framings. The city will never be quite the same again for anyone who achieves even the slightest resonance with this book.

It is a goldmine of application nuggets for those who have been introduced to integral theory, who are intrigued by it, but who have yearned for more on its application, in practice. Rich examples abound, many from the author's own often pioneering work. Here is someone who has very much walked her talk, for which we owe a great debt of gratitude.

--Ian Wight PhD, Associate Professor of City Planning, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba ret.

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