Urban Hub16 : Wellbeing - A New Frontier

Integral UrbanHub
Wellbeing - A New Frontier
Thriveable Cities
Urban Hub
a meta-pragmatic approach
Paul van Schaik
integralMENTORS

Urban Hub
Wellbeing - A New Frontier
Thriveable Cities
integralMENTORS
Paul van Schaik Creator & Curator
Barbara van Schaik Wellbeing Curator
Alan Dean Health Curator
Integral UrbanHub
16

Copyright ©©integralMENTORS– August 2019
ISBN-9781087035000
In fullness and freedom
A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral UrbanHub work on Thriveable Cities presentations.

The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two "hungers".
There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little
Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the
greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning... There is
ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and
profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life
without meaning.
There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far
more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or
unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures
all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant
whether you're happy or unhappy. You are content - you are not
alone in your Spirit - you belong.
Laurens van der Post

Before modern man can gain control
over the forces that now threaten his
very existence, he must resume
possession of himself.
This sets the chief mission for the city
of the future: that of creating a visible
regional and civic structure, designed
to make man at home with his deeper
self and his larger world, attached to
images of human nature and love.
Lewis Mumford, writer

Content
Introduction
Wellbeing in the City
Wellbeing
Making it Happen
Health in Cities
Going Integral
People
Books

Wellbeing : A new frontier
It has become clearer and clearer to me that the work I am
engaged in involves building our capacities to cope with
phenomena—that is, the mess of the world, “the swamp,”
the heat, the smell, the emotionality, the conflict and all the
things that come from engaging as whole people with
whole people.
This means leaving our desks, holding our models lightly
and engaging our senses.
The reward being work that is deeply rooted in the
complexity of the world, owned by the people who are
affected by them instead of opaque, unaccountable
agencies.
Slouching Towards Flatland, Zaid Hassan

Integral begins with a recognition that we are evolving through
growth stages in individual consciousness and culture.
Each of these stages has something important to offer: a
dignity, insight and capacity, which shines most brightly when
combined, or integrated, with the dignity, insights and
capacities of other stages.
This integration creates more than the sum of its parts, giving
rise to new emergent capabilities.
These capabilities include the ability to harmonize previously
conflicting perspectives and worldviews and to see and enact
solutions that have not been seen or tried before.

“Development - happens when people, however poor in money,
get together, get organised, become sophisticated and go to
scale. It happens when they are savvy and able to influence or
change the course of events or the order of things locally,
nationally or even globally - or are themselves able to become that
order or part of it.”
“Development - is that stage you reach when you are secure
enough in yourself, individually or collectively, to become
interdependent; when ‘I’ can emerge as ‘we’, and also when ‘we’ is
inclusive of ‘them’... Getting organised is the foundation of all the
other developmental goals we have set; it is the essence of good
governance and of sustainable work; it empowers and opens
doors; it makes you money and wins you respect.”
Small change: About the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities, 2004 Nabeel Hamdi

www.integralmentors.org
Walking in the world not talking of the world
No one vision is sufficient in and of itself – visions can
guide but only by collaborative action in a creative
generative process can visions grow and become part
of an ongoing positive sociocultural reality.
Without taking into account the many worldviews that
currently co-exist and crafting ways of including them
in a positive and healthy form we will continue to
alienate vast sections of all communities and
humankind.
It is through growing healthy versions of all the
different worldviews that we can attempt to move
towards an equitable, regenerative and caring world,
all within planetary limits.
Through action we will move forward – through only
ongoing talk we will stagnate and fail.
These books are to be dipped into – explored and
used to generate ideas and discussion.
A catalyst for collaboration and action.
And most importantly grown, modified in a generative
way.
This is a living series - any suggestions for inclusion in
the next volumes send to: info@integralmentors.org

How to use this book
A taste of many visions in our world.
Visions both positive - utopian, and negative -
dystopian. Each claiming to be true and enfolding all
the others.
But in reality they are ‘true’ but partial – and some
more ‘true’ than others. Each ‘shallower’ truth
transcended but the best included in the next
‘deeper’ or broader truth.
It’s how we use them together and in collaboration
that will define how successful we are. It is the
morphogenetic pull of caring that will determine how
we succeed as a human race. It is the ability to
generate an equitable, fair, resilient and regenerative
‘system’ that must drive us forward.
The means will be a combination of many of the ideas
showcased here but many more still to be discovered
on our exciting journey into the future. Held together
through a syngeneic Integral Mythological Pluralism.
Too little courage and we will fail – too much certainty
and we will fail. But with care and collaboration we
have a chance of success. Bringing forth emergent
impact through innovation, syngeneic enfoldment &
collaborative effort.
And a deeper understanding of a broader framework
will be required – that is, a more integral vision.
Explore and enjoy – use as many of the ideas as
possible, enfolding each into an emergent whole that
grows generatively.
At each step testing – reformulating – regrouping –
recreating.
Moving beyond, participating, thro’ share-holding,
thro’ stake-holding, to becoming a thrive-holder.

Meaningful Disruption

Overt surveillance
Lack privacy
Data driven
Covert surveillance
Thriveable Cities

• what matters to me
• my inner world
• my thoughts, feelings, fears, values, meaning.
• my intentions & consciousness
• my worldviews
• our culture & relationships
• how we understand
• How relate to each other
• our worldviews
• our dominant mode of discourse
• what people can see about me
• the tangible & measurable parts of my behaviour,
• my doing
• what I eat & do
• the design of things/systems
• the process, procedures, structures & systems that
support, explain, map, measure & guide
• how things work/look, aesthetics
Subjective - Interior Objective - Exterior
Inter-objective - ExteriorInter-subjective - Interior
© integralMENTORS
MY MEANINGS (the me space) MY BODY & ACTIONS (the it/other space)
OUR SHARED MEANING &
RELATIONSHIP (the me space)
GROUP PROCESSES/SYSTEMS,
STRUCTURES (the its/others space)
Behaviour: Actions; Competencies;
Compliance; Choices
Systems: Organisational structures; Policies &
Procedures; Metrics; Contracts
Personal: Values, Commitment,
Responsibility, Altitude
Cultural: Shared values, Morale, Myths &
Legends, Covenants
The Domains in which we create Thriveable Cities

BehaviourValues
SystemsCultures
People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
Education
Learning
Creating
Innovation
Translation
Transformation
Health
Wellbeing
Nurture
Mindset
Worldview
Values
Faith
Beliefs
Relationships
Value Systems
Community
Development Stages
Mobility
Economy
Nature
Systems
Systems of Systems
Complexity
Development Stages
Business
Eco systems
Meta-pragmatic mapping

City & Wellbeing Curated Barbara van Schaik
“Cities have the capability of providing something for
everybody, only because, and only when, they are created
by everybody.”
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Mental health is a state of well-being in which every individual
realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal
stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to
make a contribution to her or his community.”
The World Health Organisation

www.scribd.com/document/282213136/Healthy-Cities-Lancet
Wellbeing : Design Aspects

www.scribd.com/document/282213136/Healthy-Cities-Lancet
Wellbeing : Health Cities

www.amazon.co.uk/City-Well-being-radical-guide-planning/dp/0415639328
City of Wellbeing

www.farmgarden.org.uk/news/communities-encouraged-go-diy-making-their-neighbourhoods-more-sustainable
Wellbeing : City Farm and Community Gardens

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01426397908705892
Wellbeing : Stress

www.link.springer.com/article/10.1093/jurban/jtg063
Wellbeing : Mental Health

www.goo.gl/dsBnr9
Can We Improve Well being in Cities

The complex systems on which our lives depend—ecological systems, communities, economic systems, our bodies—all have
emergent properties, a primary one being health and well-being’. The emergence of health and sustainability as a defining
property of the sustainable city depends on appropriate interactions and relationships on all scales of the fundamentally
interconnected complex system that unites nature and culture.
In a complex and interconnected world, everybody is a participant and a designer affecting humanity’s collective future through
the interactions and relationships s/he engages in. A sustainable city cannot exist in isolation. It depends on, and is defined by,
its context and its participants.
We have to engage in the transition towards sustainability primarily at the local and regional scale, and create a sustainable
culture community-by-community, city-by-city and region-by-region. Ultimately, in a fundamentally interconnected and
interdependent complex dynamic system, it is safe to assume that local, regional, and global sustainability are interdependent.
This is why cooperation on and across all scales of design is a crucial element of scale-linking design for systemic health and
sustainability.
In general, the wicked problem of sustainability involves the design of more sustainable lifestyles, products, and transport-,
energy- and food-systems, as well as of sustainable communities, economies, industries and cities, to make ecosystems,
bioregions and societies healthier and more resilient, thereby increasing the likelihood that these systems/processes will be
able to sustain themselves over the long term. Collective and community-based visioning is a powerful tool for promoting
sustainable development in all these sectors.
Envisioning Healthy And Sustainable Cities Daniel Christian Wahl
A vision for ecological
settlement design.
A settlement of diversity
A settlement on a human scale
A settlement of short distances
A settlement which uses as little
space as possible
A settlement of occupant
responsibility
An energy efficient settlement
An emission-free settlement
A quiet beautiful settlement
A settlement which values water
A predominantly waste-free
settlement
A settlement of healthy buildings
A settlement of native species
and productive plants
A settlement of creative conflict
solving
A settlement of human values
medium.com/@designforsustainability/scale-linking-design-for-systemic-health-sustainable-communities-and-cities-in-context-f38e090795e9

Transforming Places:
We help communities and cities
shape their future through
individual public spaces and
broad placemaking campaigns.
Building the Placemaking
Movement:
We convene, amplify and build
the capacity of the placemaking
movement globally and locally.
Campaigning for Systemic
Change:
We make the case for
placemaking and engage with
like-minded people and
movements to influence policies,
disciplines, hearts and minds.
www.pps.org
How Project Public Spaces Drives Change

Placemaking
Placemaking is both a
philosophy and a practical
process for transforming public
spaces.
It is centered on observing,
listening to, and asking questions
of the people who live, work, and
play in a particular space in order
to understand their needs and
aspirations for that space and for
their community as a whole.
Project for Public Spaces
is a non-profit organization
dedicated to helping people
create and sustain public spaces
that build strong communities.
We are the central hub of the
global Placemaking movement,
connecting people to ideas,
resources, expertise, and
partners who see place as the
key to addressing our greatest
challenges.
www.pps.org
What Makes a Great Place

www.
Wellbeing : Roof Gardens Vertical Farms, and Green Walls

www.
Wellbeing : Design Aspects

https://medium.com/benefit-mindset/what-is-wellbeing-and-can-we-design-for-it-4bd69cd95142
What is wellbeing and can we design for it Ash Buchanan
Wellbeing is best thought of, not as a ‘thing’ that can
be designed, but as an always adapting, pattern of
relationships. Wellbeing requires an ongoing
partnership, something that happens in concert
between people and place. Some of these
partnerships are physical and ecological, such as
access to healthy food, and being in nature, while
others are social and psychological, such as
community and having positive emotions. Wellbeing
depends on what happened yesterday, as much as it
depends on what is happening in the moment, or
could happen in the future. It’s a truly complex quality
that can’t be dumbed down into a shopping list of
design features that ‘make’ us well.
Therefore, suggesting we can design physical
buildings that make us well isn’t really telling the full
story. It is more a matter of designing ‘space’ —
physically, psychologically, socially and ecologically —
for the potential of wellbeing to emerge.
“The amazing thing is, all the studies of longevity and
happiness show that when you live a life realising your
interconnected, you’re going to be happier and
healthier.” — Daniel Siegel

The four interwoven dimensions of wellbeing design
The following are four research-based dimensions building
designers best draw on to create generous ‘space’ for
wellbeing on their project’s.
Physical — A popular focus for wellbeing design consultants
are the physical elements of health and wellbeing. There is
now a rich variety of tools and references such as Well
Building, Human Spaces and Happy City that help design
teams consider how they can create better places for
people. This includes guidelines for the design of interior and
urban spaces that have the potential to transform the quality of
our lives and enhance the richness of our workplaces and
communities.
Psychological –In recent years there has been an explosion of
research into the traits that constitute psychological flourishing
in our inner lives of thoughts and feelings. As summarised by
Martin Seligman in his book Flourish, much of this research
points to 5 key human qualities — Positive Emotions,
Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment —
PERMA for short. Spaces that nurture these rich and deeply
meaningful experiences opens people up and helps them
show up more fully at work, and in life. In turn, this promotes
psychological flourishing as well as a number of other
desirable human qualities like creativity, productivity and
vitality.

The four interwoven dimensions of wellbeing design
Social — In addition to our inner world of being, there is the
often overlooked fact that we live in a profoundly
interconnected world. We are both separate and connected to
everything else in this universe. Therefore, our wellbeing is also
a function of the diversity and quality of our interpersonal
relationships. Spaces that promote culturally rich, diverse and
connected communities is fundamental in elevating our
collective potential and promoting long term resilience and
wellbeing. This includes creating spaces that resonate with their
contexts, and express values that purposefully pull communities
and organisations forward.
Ecological — Finally, there is the fact that for approximately
200,000 years’, humans evolved living in the natural world. It’s
only in the past few hundred years or so that we shifted from
spending 90% of our time outdoors to spending 90% of our
time indoors. While this shift has brought us many gifts, it has
highlighted an important aspect of human wellbeing; we are
wired to be in relationship with natural elements such as
daylight, air, water, flora and fauna. There is now overwhelming
evidence that a connection with nature improves our health,
wellbeing and productivity as well as enhancing human
qualities like learning, empathy and compassion. Therefore,
spaces that bring the best of the outdoors, indoors, plays a key
role in a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.
Taken together, this research implies that the potential for
wellbeing is at its highest when the design of spaces is
informed and uniquely enriched by all four of these
dimensions.

www.cohere.com.au/purpose/
What is Wellbeing Co-creating Wellbeing

Ensuring Wellbeing Curated Alan Dean
New housing also offers the opportunity to encourage healthier
behaviours through the built environment and urban design,
preventing ill health and encouraging greater independence and self-
care.

https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/built-environment/creating-healthy-places.
Healthy New Towns Program
What is healthy placemaking?
There are many factors that influence the long-term
health and wellbeing of the population, including the
nature of the places that people live, work, learn and
spend their leisure time in.
The design of buildings, streets, parks and
neighbourhoods can support good physical and
mental health, help reduce health inequalities and
improve people's wellbeing.
Conversely, car-oriented environments and hostile
public spaces can contribute to sedentary lifestyles
and social isolation, increasing people's risk of
disease.
We champion healthy placemaking through the
independent design advice services we provide to
Local Authorities, institutions and infrastructure
providers, embedding the principles of healthy
placemaking in the development process to improve
the health of the nation.

https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/built-environment/creating-healthy-places.
Why it matters
Physical inactivity alone is responsible for one in six
UK deaths (equal to smoking) and is estimated to
cost the UK £7.4 billion annually. Behaviour patterns
are responsible for 40% of the cause of premature
death in the UK. An evidence review by Public Health
England substantiates the theory that improved
physical and mental health can be supported by
designing neighbourhoods that enable:
Physical activity: To increase walkability in buildings
and neighbourhoods and encourage healthy modes
of transport
Healthy food: To improve access to healthier foods
Social contact: To design well-connected housing
and neighbourhoods that provide access to facilities
and amenities to reduce social isolation and
loneliness
Contact with nature: To provide access to the
natural environment, including parks
Pollution: Reducing exposure to air and noise
pollution.
This all adds up to compact, mixed-use, walkable
neighbourhoods with leafy streets and great parks.
…. as well as looking after the planet

https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/built-environment/creating-healthy-places
The research uncovered:
• 48% of built environment practitioners said that in their day-to-day work, they
either ‘often’ or ‘always’ increased walking and cycling activity amongst
residents
• 35% said their work either ‘often’ or ‘always’ decreased the use of private motor
vehicles
• But built environment practitioners are more likely to consider health and
wellbeing when designing outdoor spaces (52% say they do so ‘often’ or
‘always’) than when designing indoor spaces (34%)
• Only 40% of the practitioners surveyed felt they helped to deliver compact,
mixed-use neighbourhoods.
• Healthy placemaking interventions are excluded from design proposals due to
the perceived cost to implement them – 55% of the practitioners surveyed
reported that insufficient funding prevented them from creating healthy places.
• The systems, policies and processes of the planning and building design and
development are not currently supportive towards healthy placemaking.
• Greater understanding is needed – amongst the general public but also
politicians – about the effect of the built environment on health.
The report also found:
• Many practitioners are not using data and insight to design and create healthy
places.
• Very few practitioners can demonstrate impact.
• While the public are consulted about developments, the timing, tools and
techniques vary.
• Highways, and guidance on highways, make it difficult to create healthy places.
• Priorities differ across government departments leading to conflict, confusion
and no shared vision on healthy placemaking.
• The vision for healthy place making is clear but this vision does not always
translate into delivery of projects on the ground.
The NHS has selected the first 10 sites for its
Healthy New Towns programme as part of
its drive to tackle the obesity crisis
More than 76,000 new homes will be built
on sites, including Ebbsfleet Garden City
and Barking Riverside (see full list below),
with each receiving expert design and
technology advice from the NHS to help
boost public health.

england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/ healthy-new-towns
1. Plan ahead
2. Plan integrated
3. Connect, involve and empower people and
communities
4. Create compact neighbourhoods
5. Maximise active travel
6. Inspire and enable healthy eating
7. Foster health in homes and buildings
8. Enable healthy play
9. Provide health services that help people stay
well
10. Create integrated health centres
Ten principles
A route to healthy places

england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/ healthy-new-towns
Health New Towns Program
How places matter to wellbeing
Places where people live have a significant impact on their
mental and physical health but that impact is too often
negative. Many high streets are dominated by fast-food
takeaways. Driving is often the only – and most convenient –
way to get around. Poorly maintained parks and green
spaces do little to invite walking or play. In numerous ways,
neighbourhoods, towns and cities restrict people’s choices
and chances to lead healthier, more active lives.
People are living longer but are spending more of these
additional years in poor health. Six million people over the
age
of 60 live with two or more long-term conditions, such as
type 2 diabetes or depression. Many of these conditions are
not inevitable, but are associated with the way people live.
UK schoolchildren are now among the least active in the
world, and as a nation, we are among the most overweight in
western Europe. Obesity, inactivity and social isolation are all
strongly associated with the development of long-term
conditions.
It is essential to help prevent ill health by planning, designing
and developing higher quality places. There is growing
evidence of how this can be done. For example, providing
safe routes for walking to school or cycling to work helps
promote physical activity, and attractive green spaces or
parks for play and recreation can foster learning and
wellbeing.
There isn’t a single answer to describing
what a healthy new town looks like; it’s a
combination of a huge range of
components, including service redesign
and integration, active travel infrastructure,
behaviour change, healthy food options
and many more.

england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/ healthy-new-towns.
Health New Towns Program
NHS England established Healthy New Towns, a three year
programme, to look at how health and wellbeing can be
planned and designed into new places. It brings together
partners in housebuilding, local government, healthcare and
local communities to demonstrate how to create places that
offer people improved choices and chances for a healthier life.
The programme’s three priorities were:
• planning and designing a healthy built environment
• creating innovative models of healthcare
• encouraging strong and connected communities.
Places that were planning new large scale housing
developments were invited to take part in the programme. Ten
were selected to be ‘demonstrator sites’ to test innovation and
explore possibilities. These sites represent a range of locations
and explore different challenges.
Putting Health into Place, to be published by NHS England in
spring 2019, will set out national recommendations for change
and provide practical tools for anyone involved in creating new
places, based on the 10 principles, which are introduced
in this leaflet. NHS England has been collaborating with the
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
(MHCLG) and cross-government partners throughout the
programme and is keen to see these principles adopted by
garden cities and communities.

Health and Wellbeing
Planet:
Care...
Keeping our blue planet in tip-top shape is the
best recipe for world well-being. It can
sometimes feel like a hopeless task, but small
positive changes like getting on your bike and
switching off your charger, can make a big
difference.
Cycle or walk when local - it costs nothing, is
good for the environment and good for your
physical well-being - a no brainer!
Repair; recycle; re-use as much as you can.
Try a cooking class or join a local gardening
group
Growing your own fruit or vegetables can be
fun and sharing what you’ve grown is very
rewarding. Learning how to cook as a family
can mean more healthy tasty meals and you
can spend a bit of time together.
https://www.wheelofwellbeing.org

5 Ways of Wellbeing
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/putting-health-into-place-v4.pdf.
Connect...
With the people around you. With family, friends, colleagues
and neighbours. At home, work, school or in your local
community. Think of these as the cornerstones of your life and
invest time in developing them. Building these connections will
support and enrich you every day.
Be active...
Go for a walk or run. Step outside. Cycle. Play a game. Garden.
Dance. Exercising makes you feel good. Most importantly,
discover a physical activity you enjoy and that suits your level of
mobility and fitness.
Take notice...
Be curious. Catch sight of the beautiful. Remark on the unusual.
Notice the changing seasons. Savour the moment, whether you
are walking to work, eating lunch or talking to friends. Be aware
of the world around you and what you are feeling. Reflecting on
your experiences will help you appreciate what matters to you.
Keep learning...
Try something new. Rediscover an old interest. Sign up for that
course. Take on a different responsibility at work. Fix a bike.
Learn to play an instrument or how to cook your favourite food.
Set a challenge you will enjoy achieving. Learning new things
will make you more confident as well as being fun.
Give...
Do something nice for a friend, or a stranger. Thank someone.
Smile. Volunteer your time. Join a community group. Look out,
as well as in. Seeing yourself, and your happiness, linked to the
wider community can be incredibly rewarding and creates
connections with the people around you.
…. as well as looking after the planet

5 Ways of Wellbeing
Analytical
Framework

5 Ways of Wellbeing
Some applications
of the Five Ways to
Wellbeing mapped
to the analytical
framework

Wellbeing : Praxis
“In paying attention to our wellbeing, we address the needs
of our environment - the society that we live in and our
planet. Sustainability depends on community - when we
learn to be happily reliant on each other, we're less likely to
turn to material consumption to meet our emotional
needs.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Wellbeing
Wellbeing and a shorter working week
http://autonomy.work/…/20…/03/Shorter-working-week-docV6.pdf
MENTAL HEALTH AND THE SHORTER WORKING WEEK
The move to a shorter working week could help the UK improve
the health of workers, and the success of businesses. Poor mental
health at work is estimated to cost employers between £33- 42 billion,
or almost 2% of UK GDP (Deloitte, 2017). Additionally, 300,000 people
move out of work due to poor mental health
on a yearly basis. A move towards a shorter working week could
reduce stress and increase productivity, as well as enabling a better
quality of rest and recuperation, which could in turn limit mental fatigue
and lead to fewer sick days. Lower levels of work- related mental
distress would also reduce associated burdens on healthcare services.
A shorter working week could reduce the current costs of mental
health at work for employers and the government, improving
productivity and reducing demand for already stretched mental health
services.
WELLBEING AND THE SHORTER WORKING WEEK
A reduction in work-time can lead to an increase in worker
wellbeing. The relationship between work and wellbeing is something
that normally escapes economic measurements or analysis.
Whilst politicians focus on wage relations, unemployment levels and
the productivity of a nation’s economic output, very little in the way of
policy is directed at improving the qualitative impact work has on
people’s day-to-day lives and how this contributes to a well-functioning
society.
This section outlines a number of empirical studies that have
investigated the direct impact reducing the working week has had on
people’s wellbeing and their quality of life.

Wellbeing
http://autonomy.work/…/20…/03/Shorter-working-week-docV6.pdf
Transition to a shorter working week
IMPACT OF SHORTER HOURS ON CONSUMER
BEHAVIOUR
Reduced working hours could change the behaviour of
households away from energy intensive behaviours, and
toward more eco-friendly alternatives (Coote et al., 2010).
Households could prepare home- made food instead of
consuming energy-intensive ready-meals, and walk or
cycle instead of drive (Jalas, 2002). This holds true even
when controlling for income: those working longer hours
have more environmentally damaging patterns of
consumption (Devetter and Rousseau, 2011).
The creation of more free time outside of work creates the
possibility for a general movement towards low-carbon
‘soft’ activities (Kallis et al., 2013). These include reading
and playing, exercising, spending time with the family,
relaxing, and investing in personal education amongst
things. It must be noted however that these changes in
consumer behaviour are also dependent on the relative
prices of different leisure and consumption goods.
Additional environmental regulation such as taxes on
energy-intensive goods can provide incentives for more
low- carbon forms of consumption and leisure (Van den
Bergh, 2011).
With limited free time, there is an increased tendency to
spend that time intensively on more consumer goods.
Having less time outside of waged-work means people
are not able to use their leisure time for time-intensive,
but low-energy activities such as regular exercise, and
cooking with raw ingredients.

www.thinkingcity.org/2013/01/31/wellbeing/
Can We Improve Wellbeing in Cities

https://www.urbandesignmentalhealth.com/journal4-hk-case-study.html
Urban design and mental health in Hong Kong: a city case study
3 Urban planning/design lessons from Hong Kong for better
public mental health
First mile-last mile infrastructure: Promote walking and negate
the need for cars
Social infrastructure: Formal sitting out spaces encourage
people to socialise, and to walk and rest
Space sharing in dense cities: Where space is limited, the same
location can have different uses at different times
8 Urban planning/design steps to help improve Hong Kong’s
public mental health
Urban nature and other public space: More in-city options will
support better mental health (and clearer links to nearby
greenery)
Design work for better mental health: Improve settings for
commutes, offices, and breaks during the day
Pro-social homes: Increase opportunities for positive social
interaction within housing
Reduce car domination: Public transport and walking should
occupy landscape commensurate with prevalence
Sitting in and out: Sitting out spaces should also exist within air
conditioned indoor places
Cross-sector collaboration: More collaboration between
government sectors would deliver better health impact
Inclusive planning: More formal effort to engage city residents
and users will reap rewards
Prioritise health: Shift decision-making priorities from mainly
financial considerations to include health

Views of wellbeing
To build a dynamic city you need everyone from different
walks of life, different strata of society to come together and
build something interesting. It needs to be progressive,
dynamic, and definitely needs to be united in its vision. You
need to reach that diversity of different ideas, but there
needs to be a central idea that everyone can walk towards
as well.
- Jackson Tan, co-founder of black design & phunk studio

cohere.com.au
Wellbeing a Systems View

www.charleslandry.com/themes/creative-cities-index/
Psychology & the City

www.livingmeanings.com/martin-seligman-and-his-two-theories-of-happiness/
PERMA-Theory : Seligman – Positive Psychology

www.livingmeanings.com/six-criteria-well-ryffs-multidimensional-model/
Six-factor Model of Psychological Wellbeing : Ryff Scale

www.wvevidence4change.org/
World Visions Resilient Cities Initiative

www.thinkingcity.org/2013/01/31/wellbeing/
Canadian Index of Wellbeing

www.peoplesfoodpolicy.org
Wellbeing: Food Policy Priorities and Implementation

Wellbeing : The Theory
No society has ever been without its vision holders; the
only difference has been in the nobility of the vision.
To whom are we to look? —awakened sages or Wall-Street
advertisers, shamanic revelations or deconstructive
narcissism, growth to goodness or wallowing in ego?
Structuralism, by whatever name, has always pointed to the
deeper and higher waves of awareness that are the birth
right of all sentient beings.
Therefore, choose your visions carefully, for as even the
earliest sages counselled: you become what you
contemplate.
The Look of a Feeling: The Importance of Post/Structuralism Excerpt D: Kosmic
Karma & Creativity © 2006 Ken Wilber.

Unsustainableimpact
Modes of Participation

Partial
Impact
Sustainable
Impact
Thriveable
Impact
Modes of Participation
co-creationco-creation

Wellbeing
www.5deep.net/
Stages of Human Adaptive Socio-psychological Development – Spiral Dynamic

Wellbeing
www.5deep.net/
Stages of Human Adaptive Socio-psychological Development

Wellbeing
www.5deep.net/
Solonics

Wellbeing
Wellbeing – Worldviews, Mindsets and Values (memes)
www. integralmentors.org

Wellbeing
The stages are less concerned with content (surface
structure) and more about the container (deep
structure) of the content. i.e. The worldviews of an
absolutist atheist and an absolutist Christian are
diametrically opposed, but they share the lack of
ambiguity. It’s not necessarily what an individual thinks
that’s important but how it thinks.
The stages aren’t black or white. No individual or
society is wholly at one stage. but are a complex mix
of elements from a number of stages. Nuance and
complex thinking must apply. Stages can also
‘brighten’ or ‘dim’. Individuals and societies are
capable of regressing to lower stages to suit life’s
moment to moment situations.
Individual or societies mindset manifest as healthy
(open) or unhealthy (arrested/closed). A healthy
mindset is one that is open and accepting of new
information, where as an unhealthy mindset manifests
as closed-off, judgmental and unable to increase its
cognitive development. Knowing an organism’s
mindset (stage) alone isn’t as useful as knowing how it
is manifesting.

Wellbeing
Integral MENTORS
The ‘Walk’ The ‘Systems’The ‘Talk’ The ‘Star’ &
Shadow
The
COG
Personal
Alignment
Action-Logic
Leadership
Development
Values
Personal
Development
Self-Identity
Personal
Development
The Leading
edge of
thought
the ‘Talk’
The trailing
tail of action
the ‘Shadow’
The centre
of action
the ‘Walk’
developmental
pull
the ‘Star’

One part of what it takes are new coalitions, new cross-sectional
partnerships that pool our resources, networks, and capacities to
serve this larger purpose.
To prototype such collaborations, HuffPost is teaming up with
the Presencing Institute (PI) in a joint initiative that blends the online
news media reach of Huffpost with the global capacity and
movement building infrastructures of PI and MITx u.lab in order to
launch a joint initiative that will:
Create an interactive multimedia hub to move the new economic
narrative from marginal to mainstream.
Shine a spotlight on pioneers and inspiring living examples of the
new economy and the principles that guide them.
Connect aspiring change makers with the pioneers that already
created inspiring living examples around the various key acupuncture
point areas of transforming capitalism
Share key frameworks that link the transformation of capitalism and
the upgrading our democratic and educational systems with the UN
framework of the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
Provide methods, tools, and movement building capacities that help
change makes to move from idea to action. Otto Scharmer
The figure depicts a map of places that we can choose to operate
from when engaging with our social and environmental context.
Simply put, we can choose to operate from a closed mind, closed
heart, and closed will, or we can choose to operate from an open
mind, open heart, and open will. Accordingly, our actions give rise to
a social field of self-destruction (absencing) or of collective creativity
(presencing).
Wellbeing
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2018-moving-beyond-trumprebuilding-our-civilizations_us_5a480ba1e4b0d86c803c7735?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
A New Initiative for Making Our Movement See Itself

Otto Scharmer, Contributor
Senior Lecturer, MIT; Co-founder u.lab and Presencing
Institute
At the end of the day what gives me hope is something very simple.
Although as a civilization we are still heading in the wrong direction
on many counts, many innovative and eco-system-aware people are
doing great work in numerous contexts. Seeing that is a huge source
of inspiration and hope. I see all these initiatives as part of an
emerging movement that is working to regenerate the foundation of
our civilization: how we work and live together.
In the context of modern societies, this means rethinking and
regenerating our economies toward sustainability, inclusion and
well-being for all, our democracies toward more direct, participatory
forms of governance, and our educational systems toward activating
the deeper sources of learning (head, heart, hand)
My source of confidence is that in all three areas the answers are
right in front of us. I have seen them being prototyped in many
different contexts. But they are not yet linked together and made
visible to everyone. They have not yet transformed the old systems.
Years ago, I realized that we lacked a word for this deeper capacity of
self-knowing, which is why I introduced the blended word
presencing. Presencing combines “sensing” (of an emerging future)
with “presence” (actualizing that future in the now). The root of the
word “presencing” means “to be.” The words essence, presence, and
the old Indian sat, which means “truth” and “goodness,” all share the
same Indo-European word root.
An Old German derivative of the same root, sun, means “those who
are surrounding us” or “the beings who surround us.” The deeper
developmental capacity at issue here—which you see leadership
teams around the globe wrestling with these days—is precisely that:
how to connect to the intelligence of those [eco-systems] who
surround us?
Wellbeing
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2018-moving-beyond-trumprebuilding-our-civilizations_us_5a480ba1e4b0d86c803c7735?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
Regenerating Our Civilization

Wellbeing
www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Life-approach-Wellbeing-interpretation/dp/1512366064
Wellbeing – The Nature of Life Barbara van Schaik

Wellbeing
For detail on the 3 Natures and much more see - www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Life-approach-Wellbeing-interpretation/dp/1512366064
Wellbeing – Air Nature Barbara van Schaik

:
Wellbeing
Wellbeing – Fire Nature Barbara van Schaik

Wellbeing
Wellbeing – Air nature Barbara van Schaik

Willem Booth -adult educator & coordinator of the DTES Literacy Roundtable. www.linkvan.ca
Digital Access and Equity in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastsides Willem Booth

Building Maps and Sets of Interventions that Matter
Impact - not only Action
What we have tried to show in this series of books is the numerous ideas, theories and
activities that are currently in play – how when used alone no lasting impact can be made.
Each tends to tackle one of the four domains we have identified as being crucial.
As we show in the theory and also the evaluation section - in order to achieve serious impact,
interventions in each of the four domains or Quadrants and eight Zones need to be in place .
It’s not which intervention to use but which mix in each domain. An intervention in one
domain must be complemented by interventions in each of the other three.
We now have the methods needed to evaluate and monitor these inter-meshing
interventions.
Combining this approach with an understanding of stratified increased broadening of
mindset ensures that we are able to meet people where they are ‘at’.
“it is ironic that we know more about the habitat of mountain gorillas than we do about the
[urban] habitat of people’. We have programmes for Smart Cities, Green Cities, Healthy Cities
or Cities of Culture, hi-tech or low carbon cities. But people are rarely centre-stage.”
The Danish urbanist, Jan Gehl noted acerbically
Impact not Action

Wellbeing : A Broader View
Too often development efforts are plastered onto a region or
community without full respect for what is already present and what is
naturally emerging.
An integral approach asks the question: What is already happening
here, what is already emerging that could be further supported?
This appreciative, community-based way of approaching development
is quite a different way to begin a project.
Further, applying the evolutionary view that integral theory provides,
we are able to get some sense of where a community, or a person, is
presently coming from and what might best support this emerging
potential.
This approach can be applied to both groups and individuals, and
essentially honours the inherent trajectory of evolution already
occurring, and simply intends to support that as fully as possible.

During the last 30 years, we have witnessed a historical first: all of the world’s cultures are now available
to us. In the past, if you were born, say, a Chinese, you likely spent your entire life in one culture, often in
one province, sometimes in one house, living and loving and dying on one small plot of land. But today,
not only are people geographically mobile, we can study, and have studied, virtually every known
culture on the planet. In the global village, all cultures are exposed to each other.
Knowledge itself is now global. This means that, also for the first time, the sum total of human
knowledge is available to us—the knowledge, experience, wisdom and reflection of all major human
civilizations—premodern, modern, and postmodern—are open to study by anyone.
What if we took literally everything that all the various cultures have to tell us about human potential—
about spiritual growth, psychological growth, social growth—and put it all on the table? What if we
attempted to find the critically essential keys to human growth, based on the sum total of human
knowledge now open to us? What if we attempted, based on extensive cross-cultural study, to use all of
the world’s great traditions to create a composite map, a comprehensive map, an all-inclusive or
integral map that included the best elements from all of them?
Sound complicated, complex, daunting? In a sense, it is. But in another sense, the results turn out to be
surprisingly simple and elegant. Over the last several decades, there has indeed been an extensive
search for a comprehensive map of human potentials. This map uses all the known systems and models
of human growth— from the ancient shamans and sages to today’s breakthroughs in cognitive science—
and distils their major components into 5 simple factors, factors that are the essential elements or keys
to unlocking and facilitating human evolution. Ken Wilber
Welcome to the Integral Model. (for a more detail see books 1,2 & 3 in this series)

In short, the Integral Approach helps you see both yourself and the world around you in more comprehensive
and effective ways. But one thing is important to realize from the start. The Integral Map is just a map. It is not
the territory. We certainly don’t want to confuse the map with the territory, but neither do we want to be
working with an inaccurate or faulty map. The Integral Map is just a map, but it is the most complete and
accurate map we have at this time.
We find that an infant at birth has not yet been socialized into the culture’s ethics and conventions; this is called
the pre-conventional stage. It is also called egocentric, in that the infant’s awareness is largely self-absorbed.
But as the young child begins to learn its culture’s rules and norms, it grows into the conventional stage of
morals. This stage is also called ethnocentric, in that it centres on the child’s particular group, tribe, clan, or
nation, and it therefore tends to exclude care for those not of one’s group. But at the next major stage of moral
development, the post-conventional stage, the individual’s identity expands once again, this time to include a
care and concern for all peoples, regardless of race, colour, sex, or creed, which is why this stage is also called
world-centric.
Thus, moral development tends to move from “me” (egocentric) to “us” (ethnocentric) to “all of us” (world-
centric) — a good example of the unfolding stages of consciousness. Ken Wilber
What is the point of using this Integral Map or Model?
First, whether you are working in business, medicine, psychotherapy, law, ecology, or simply everyday living
and learning, the Integral Map helps make sure that you are “touching all the bases.” If you are trying to fly over
the Rocky Mountains, the more accurate a map you have, the less likely you will crash. An Integral Approach
insures that you are utilizing the full range of resources for any situation, with the greater likelihood of success.
Second, if you learn to spot these 5 elements in your own awareness—and because they are there in any event—
then you can more easily appreciate them, exercise them, use them... and thereby vastly accelerate your own
growth and development to higher, wider, deeper ways of being. A simple familiarity with the 5 elements in the
Integral Model will help you orient yourself more easily and fully in this exciting journey of discovery and
awakening.

For communication tools see ‘Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners : Basic’ – Paul van Schaik vS Publishers
Personal beliefs/
mindset
Systems existing &
proposed
Cultural views
Personal Behaviour
Context
Stages of development
Interior Subjective :
Values - mindsets & intention
Exterior Objective :
Behaviour – competences & capacities
Interior Intersubjective :
Culture - worldviews
Exterior Interobjective :
Systems – infrastructure & creations
Any attempt at interventions to modify behaviour needs to consider the interrelationship between behaviour, values &
mindsets, culture and existing systems in place and systems of infrastructure being proposed.
Each of these domains have a distinct influence and need to be tetra-meshed to embed change in the long-term. Change can
be translational – healthier at same Stage of development or transformational – healthier (hopefully) a higher Stage of
development.
A Broader Framework

Beliefs/mindset (individuals)
Determine Values Centre of Gravity (VCG)
(a number of instruments are available to measure VCG)
Communications:
1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current VCG (short term)
2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long
term)
- stories, messages, school programs, social media,
advertising etc. Peer group pressure, role models etc.
Cultural views (communities etc.)
Determine Dominant Mode of Discourse (DMD)
(a number of instruments are available to measure DMD)
Communications:
1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current DMD (short term)
2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long
term)
- stories, messages, school programs, social media,
advertising etc. Peer group pressure, role models etc.
Behaviour (individuals)
To change Personal Behaviour both
– translational more healthy at same level (horizontal)
- transformational towards a higher stage of development
(vertical)
- new laws & guidelines/instructions
- programs/projects in other quadrants.
Context
For communication tools see ‘Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners : Basic’ – Paul van Schaik vS Publishers
translational or
transformational
Systems
in place – what needs improving & what needs replacing
proposed systems C40 interventions
These ‘problems’ are know as ‘wicked problems’ and
actions or interventions usually bring forth unintended
consequences. This constant alignment to goals of vision
needed
Projects need to be co created with
communities – not handed down
from the centre. See Modes of
Participation table (level 6 to 8 for
‘sustainable’ results)
Any intervention must be designed and implemented in conjunction with projects in other quadrants
development
A Broader Framework

Domains of change (tetra-meshed)
Psychological - Spiritual
Concerned with changing one’s sense of being.
Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of individual
perceptions and capacity
Focus:
Deepening self-awareness
Developing one’s knowledge, skills, mindsets, beliefs
Methods:
Meditation
Personal reflection and inquiry
Personal development of mastery through courses and
apprenticeships
Cultural
Concerned with collective values of fairness and justice.
Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of collective values and
beliefs
Focus:
Collective goals and aspirations
Underlying values and beliefs
Implicit ‘rules’ and assumptions
Discourse. language
Methods:
Collective goal-setting & strategy creation
Developing value statements and processes of actualisation
Ongoing media programmes
Inter-personal/Bio
Concerned with changing one’s own behaviours in interaction
with others
Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of how individuals
interact
Focus:
Showing trust, respect, mutual understanding
Shifting behaviour to demonstrate interdependence
Reaching conciliation of inter-personal differences
Methods:
Diversity training
learning journeys into other people’s worlds
Group encounters/retreats for exploration
Mediation/negotiation training
Structural and Systems/Social
Concerned with governance, decision-making processes, and
institutions
Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of processes,
institutions, and power
Focus:
Policies, legislation
Institutions, procedures
Allocation of resources
Methods:
Building political structures, agreements, frameworks, systems
New accounting/reporting/measurement systems
Objective-Tangible
Subjective-Intangible
Individual
Collective

Quadrants of Development

BEHAVIOR
Individual-Exterior: Brain and Organism
The visible, objective, external reality of an
individual
Context: empirically measurable individual
qualities; physical boundaries or surfaces;
biological features; brain chemistry; bodily states;
physical health; behaviors; skills; capabilities;
actions; etc.
Examples of areas addressed: energy level of a
practitioner; nutritional intake; conduct toward
environment or opposite sex; response to rules and
regulations; money management; computer
skills; acidity;
Tools for transformation: e.g., diet; hygiene;
exercise; skill-building; clear rules, regulations, and
guidance from a respected authority; use of
litigation to enforce regulations
EXPERIENCE/VALUES
Individual-Interior: Self and Consciousness
The invisible, subjective, internal reality of an
individual
Context: self-identity and consciousness; intentions;
personal values; attitude; religious or spiritual
beliefs; commitment (e.g., cognitive, emotional,
moral); cognitive capacity; depth of responsibility;
degree of care for others and the environment; etc.
Examples of areas addressed: psychological health
and development; educational level; emotional
intelligence; motivation and will; understanding of
one's role in the community and impact on the
environment; personal goals; the practitioner's
intrapersonal intelligence, mental model, and self-
knowledge;
Tools for transformation: e.g., psychotherapy;
religious or spiritual counseling; phenomenological
research; introspection; goal-setting;
Upper Quadrants
A Broader Framework

SYSTEMS
Collective-Exterior: Social Systems &
Environments
The visible, inter-objective, external realities of
groups
Context: visible societal structures; systems &
modes of production (economic, political, social,
informational, educational, technological);
strategies; policies; work processes;
technologies; natural systems, processes &
interactions in the environment
Examples of areas addressed: stability &
effectiveness of economic & political systems;
legal frameworks; strength of tech., educational &
healthcare infrastructure; poverty alleviation;
actual power, class, race & gender inequities; job
creation & trade; corporate regulation;
organizational structure; food security; health of
local biota or global biosphere; climate change;
restoration, protection & sustainable use of
natural resources;
Tools for transformation: e.g., policy-making;
capacity building; systems thinking; "upstream"
strategies; organizational reengineering; micro-
credit & micro-enterprise;
CULTURE
Collective-Interior: Cultures and Worldviews
The invisible, inter-subjective, internal realities of
groups
Context: shared values and worldviews; shared
meaning; mutual resonance; cultural norms,
boundaries and mores; language; customs;
communication; relationships; symbolism; agreed
upon ethics; etc.
Examples of areas addressed: cultural
"appropriateness"; collective vision; relationship
between practitioners and the community;
relationship amongst communityIfamilyIorganization
members; language differences; collective
interpretation of power, class, race and gender
inequities; collective perception of the environment
and pollution
Tools for transformation: e.g., dialogue; community-
directed development; inclusive decision making;
consensus-based strategic planning; organizational
learning; support groups (religious or secular); trust
building exercises techniques; community visioning;
cooperative participation; storytelling; collective
introspection; meme development and propagation
Upper Quadrants
A Broader Framework

www.simvanderryn.com/philosophy/
Towards an Ecological Epoch Sim van der Ryn

www.simvanderryn.com/philosophy/
The Consciousness Structure Diagram Sim van der Ryn

Metamodern, Postmodern, and Modern Ideas
Early Integral
Upper Right-hand Quadrant

Moving Towards a More Integral development

Quadrants: Zones of Development

www.valuesandframes.org/handbook/2-how-values-work/
Common Cause Foundation - (Flatland not the Spiral)

SELF
My
Values & Mindset
Our
Culture &
WorldViews
Our
Society & Systems
My
Behaviour &
Lifestyle
Perspectives – Domains of Knowing
‘Consumption’
viewed from a
personal perspective
–
through personal
mindsets & values
‘Consumption’ viewed
from a social &
systems perspective –
(data and observation
driven)
from an empirical
perspective –
(data and observation
driven)
from a cultural
perspective –
through group
culture & worldviews
domains in which I am embedded
PERSPECTIVE (consumption)
A Broader Framework

Self-as-instrument

Wellbeing – Who am I ?

Contributors
Alan Dean
Health Curator: - Thriving People
Founder/Managing Director Burning2Learn UK Ltd
25+ years of enjoyment, unlocking human talent by building teams through construction, community and media projects that have
allowed ownership whist building self- esteem. Allowing people to restore their sense of worth. Building energy into community, this
approach has succeeded at all academic levels.
Many of the successful projects have been commissioned or accredited by: NESTA National-Endowment-for-Science-Technology-and-
the-Arts; Initiatives of Change; BIS Business Innovation Skills; Kent Count Council; WSBK World Superbikes, and UN Global Compact
Swiss Network.
Barbara van Schaik
Wellbeing Curator - Thriving People
Co Founder integralMENTORS
Worked as an advisor to a number of NGOs including Ideas International in Bangladesh.
Studied Tibetan Medicine in Bhutan, Nepal and at Men Zee Khang, Dharamshala, India, leading in 2015 to the publication of he book 'The
Nature of Life – the Tibetan Approach to Health and Wellbeing’ - is an updated treatment of the ancient teaching of Tibetan Medicine.
Followed by the companion volume 'the 3 Natures Guide to Diet & Lifestyle. Also The Cloud Garden - a novel set in Bhutan and a number
of short stories. Qualified in Chinese herbal medicine.
Paul van Schaik
Creator & Curator Urban Hub – Thriveable Cities Series
Founder integralMENTORS
Advisor to C40 Cities – Thriving Cities Initiative
Co Founder - Integral Without Borders;
Founding member of the Integral Institute.
40+ years experience of working in international development – with extensive experience, as team leader in the education, health,
infrastructure sectors and program management. Worked with national governments, bilateral and multilateral development
organisations and international NGOs to bring an integrally informed approach to programme development, implementation and
evaluation, either directly or through the training of operational staff.
A UK trained Architect with extensive global experience doing pioneering work with passive solar energy in the 1970/80s in Africa and
Australia, and tutored at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.

This is how they survive. You must know this.
You’re too smart not to know this. They paint the
world full of shadows and then tell their children
to stay close to the light. Their light, their reason,
their judgements, because in the darkness there
be dragons. But it isn’t true. We can prove that it
isn’t true.
In the dark there is discovery, there is possibility,
there is freedom in the dark when someone has
illuminated it.
And who has been so close as we are right now?
black sails

Key to an Integral approach to urban design
is the notion that although other aspects of
urban life are important, people (sentient
beings), as individuals and communities, are
the primary ‘purpose’ for making cities
thriveable. All other aspects (technology,
transport & infra-structure, health, education,
sustain-ability, economic development, etc.)
although playing a major part, are
secondary.
Urban Hub Series
These books are a series of presentations for
the use of Integral theory or an Integral
Meta-framework in understanding cities and
urban Thriveability.
Although each can stand alone, taken
together they give a more rounded
appreciation of how this broader framework
can help in the analysis and design of
thriveable urban environments.
Guides for Integrally Informed
Practitioners
The Guides for Integrally Informed
Practitioners (adjacent) cover much of the
theory behind the Integral Meta-framework
used in these volumes. For topics covered in
others volumes in this series see the
following page.

Urban Hub series
Pdf versions are gratis to view & download :
https://www.slideshare.net/PauljvsSS
Can also be viewed at:
issuu.com/paulvanschaik
Hardcopies can be purchased from Amazon
Not available as a pdf

IntegralUrbanHub
Wellbeing-ANewFrontier
ThriveableCities
UrbanHub
ameta-pragmaticapproach
A series of books from integralMENTORS Integral
UrbanHub work - on Wellbeing and Thriveable Cities
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to
these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to
integrally inform practitioners.
This book brings together all the wellbeing related
pages from the first 15 volumes of this Urban Hub
series and adds a few new ideas

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