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Integral City 3.7 considers a series of apparently intractable challenges that all cities face because the world has become so complex that cause and effect are rarely directly linked. This third book in our series explores three themes that are eternal practices for designing a collective life that works for all life; namely, Caring, Contexting and Capacity Building. The challenges cities face today result from the intertwining impacts of multiple life conditions, perspectives and capacities and can only be addressed by reframing them within an Integral City model that honors the plural realities, recognizes their developmental and evolutionary relationships and does not conflate differences. Book 3 applies and expands in multiple directions the 12 intelligences described in Book 1, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive and builds on the field work described in Book 2: Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive.

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For those who make the city, and--especially--cities, their life/work place par excellence, this is probably the most comprehensive, inclusive and balanced framing of their field--broadly, and integrally, defined--that they are ever likely to encounter. It focuses on reframing complex challenges, but the main--almost pre-requisite--challenge involves a fundamental reframing of their own, whole, selves, in a wholeness-privileging project like no other. --Ian Wight PhD FCIP GTB, Senior Scholar, City Planning, University of Manitoba Where do we begin to heal our world in crisis? Marilyn Hamilton has chosen one key entry point--the city--the unit of human culture she calls the human hive. And she has explored, in many diverse ways, how cities can make wise choices to address their challenges and create more healthy futures. --Terry Patten, Author A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, Co-Author Integral Spiritual Practise, Founder Integral Heart No longer are cities defined by a single slowly evolving Worldview as they have tended to be up until the erosion of both modern and post-modern Worldviews failed to provide fair, equitable and resilient cities for all. Current trends in sustainable or smart cities have proved insufficient to encompass and include the degree of complex thinking needed. A complexity that defies individual or expert group planning. A complexity that needs to involve us all in the development of self-organising evolving cities which allow us to define who we are and what we want from our co-created urban environment. A city capable of holding various cultures and Worldviews that can be technically resilient and can be socially relevant and culturally inclusive for all it's citizens. Marilyn's Integral City 3.7 and the other two earlier volumes are part of the evolving process that defines the actions we all need to be involved in if our cities are to be places we love to be a part of. --Paul van Schaik, Founder IntegralMENTORS, Creator and publisher of the Integral UrbanHub series--Thriveable Cities and Executive Director Integral Without Borders Imagine human hives who know how to connect. They can map their existing connections, align people to purpose and priorities. They can amplify what works, let go of what doesn't and continuously improve the value they contribute to Gaia [Appendix F1: Imagine the City as a Human Hive ]. From the breadth and depth of her work, Hamilton's third book in the Integral City series appears to be a scientific and philosophical exploration of the challenges facing a burgeoning humanity increasingly nested in urban environments. But it is much more than that. It is also a handbook for stewards of the growth and structure of living cities as well as for curators of complex evolutionary learning communities. Her work explores the scientific bases for the emergence of collective wellbeing in hypercomplex human communities and their potential for expressing intelligence through networked connections between and among them. In an age of increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments, Hamilton's work is an essential guide for understanding the evolution of a city as a learning system and how to fulfill it's potential as a true expression of Gaia. --Alexander Laszlo, PhD, 57th President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and Chair of the Board of Trustees

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"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"

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