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How do you inquire about, act in and impact the city as self, other and place? This is a book of: burning questions that deepen your reflective capacity; injunctions that guide your practice as a city AQtivator; and frames for designing impact on, with and as the city. Learn through a series of methodological cases studies and templates for process designs, based on Integral City work in the last decade. If you want to achieve impact in your work as Integral City Practitioner, Catalyst or Meshworker, these designs generate outcomes in the city as a whole, using an integrally framed approach. You can address consciousness and culture as Place Caring (the left had quadrants of the integral model) and actions and systems as Place Making (the right hand quadrants of the integral model). Organized using the Integral City design cycle the chapters walk you through processes for inviting in the Knowing Field; embracing the Master Code; assessing the 12 Intelligences of the City; discovering and mapping City Values; designing Vital Signs Monitors; engaging the 4 Voices of the City; Prototyping designs for Learning Lhabitats, Pop-ups and Sustainable Community Development; Meshworking Purpose, People, Place and Planet; and Evaluating Outcomes. Using these process designs you may choose a linear or a non-linear path. Whether you focus on separate stages or attempt the whole tour, you will find an inquiry-action-impact system that is replicable, frequently iterative and provides a grand cycle for enacting change at the city scale.

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Integral City Inquiry and Action continues Marilyn Hamilton's (and her colleagues') rather unique exploration into the application and extension of Integral Metatheory (and related disciplines) into the entire urban landscape and all of its dimensions, aspects, functions, and qualities. The modern city is the most complex social structure that exists, as far as we know, anywhere in the universe, and as such it is made to order for an Integral approach. This is exactly what Marilyn and her team do. The results are illuminating, novel, insightful, extremely useful and urgently needed. What Integral City tells us, among numerous important specific insights, is that any approach that is less comprehensive or less integral is doomed to failure, because only an integrally pluralistic theory and practice will cover all the truly important bases. These important bases are carefully elucidated in 16 chapters, each one covering a significant ingredient of a genuinely integral approach to city planning, living, exploring, discovering, applying. My congratulations to the authors for another profound, timely, and superb work! -- Ken Wilber, Philosopher, Integral Theorist, Author: The Integral Vision, Sex Ecology & Spirituality, Integral Psychology, A Brief History of Everything

Integral City Inquiry and Action continues Marilyn Hamilton's (and her colleagues') rather unique exploration into the application and extension of Integral Metatheory (and related disciplines) into the entire urban landscape and all of its dimensions, aspects, functions, and qualities. The modern city is the most complex social structure that exists, as far as we know, anywhere in the universe, and as such it is made to order for an Integral approach. This is exactly what Marilyn and her team do. The results are illuminating, novel, insightful, extremely useful and urgently needed. What Integral City tells us, among numerous important specific insights, is that any approach that is less comprehensive or less integral is doomed to failure, because only an integrally pluralistic theory and practice will cover all the truly important bases. These important bases are carefully elucidated in 16 chapters, each one covering a significant ingredient of a genuinely integral approach to city planning, living, exploring, discovering, applying. My congratulations to the authors for another profound, timely, and superb work! -- Ken Wilber, Philosopher, Integral Theorist, Author: The Integral Vision, Sex Ecology & Spirituality, Integral Psychology, A Brief History of Everything

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Marilyn Hamilton PhD, CPA/CGA Founder and President Integral City Meshworks A city evolutionist, prAQtivist, author, researcher and academic, Marilyn co-creates a global constellation of Integral City Meshworkers, Learning habitats, 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 Placecaring with Placemaking.

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