This document provides an overview of Paul van Schaik's work on developing thriveable cities through his urban hub project at integralMENTORS. It discusses how cities are facing major sustainability challenges but are also centers of innovation. There is an urgency to develop quantitative and predictive frameworks to understand cities and inform policymakers, as noted by Geoffrey West. The document outlines topics that the urban hub project covers, such as community, urban density, designing with nature, and how housing can build community.

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Integral UrbanHub
Housing and Community
Thriveable Cities
Urban Hub
a meta-pragmatic approach

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3. Urban Hub
Housing as Community
Thriveable Cities
integralMENTORS
Paul van Schaik
Creator & Curator
Integral UrbanHub
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A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral UrbanHub work on Thriveable Cities presentations.

5. "Perhaps of even greater relevance is that the long-term sustainability of
the planet is inextricably linked to the fate of our cities. We are
urbanizing at an exponential rate, with more than half of the world’s
population now living in urban centres.
The biggest global challenges we are facing from climate change, the
environment, availability of energy and resources, social unrest, and
financial markets are generated in cities, but cities are also the hubs of
innovation, wealth creation, and power.
Put slightly differently, cities may well be the problem, but they are also
the solution.
This strongly suggests that there is a great urgency to develop a more
quantitative, predictive, computational framework that can complement
the traditional, more qualitative, narrative approaches to understanding
cities – a framework that can help inform today’s and tomorrow’s
practitioners and policy makers.”
Geoffrey West - Santa Fe Institute

6. Content
Introduction
Community
Homes and Community
Design Ideas
Building homes not houses
Urban Density
Working with nature
The Good City
Housing and cities
Making it Happen
Homes building community
Meaning of Home
Housing as homes
Going Integral
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