Full Description
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.
Contents
Ecosphere IntelligenceIntelligence: Seeing Wholeness in the Human Hive; Integral Intelligence: Charting Patterns of the Human Hive; Living Intelligence: Living and Dying in the Human Hive; Inner Intelligence: Conscious Capacity in the Human Hive; Outer Intelligence: Embodying Right Action in the Human Hive; Building Intelligence: Creating Structures That Flex and Flow in the Human Hive; Story Intelligence: Feeding Each Other in the Human Hive; Inquiry Intelligence: Releasing Potential in the Human Hive; Meshing Intelligence: Enabling Order and Creativity in the Human Hive; Navigating Intelligence: Directional Dashboards for the Human Hive; Evolving Intelligences: Imagining the Future for Human Hives; Applied Intelligences: Resources For Thriving In Your Human Hive.
