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Transcript of Prophetic City
New Orleans: A Prophetic City of Resilience and Innovation
Forty Minute ForumChurch of St. Clement, Eglinton
November, 2009
Cities have become the dominant global human habitat of this century in terms of
geography, experience, constituency, and influence
Morgan Grove Cities: Managing Densely Settled Social-Ecological Systems, 2008
OLD WORLD/ NEW WORLD
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THAT THAT THAT
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affects
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Systems/Capital in a City
Financial
Social
Bonding
BridgingSpiritual
Natural
Cultural
How a prophetic city before?
• Disconnected from the local• Public policies/investments driven by distant
priorities/decision-makers• Degraded natural assets• Disrupted neighborhoods• Structurally supported divisions by race,
ethnicity, and class• Export economy extractive and exploitive:
oil/gas, fisheries, tourism and gambling)• Chronic disinvestment in infrastructure
Perverse Opportunity
• Self organization emerges• Communities form ‘hubs’• And need ‘links’• And together these create ‘connective
tissue’• No single solution, no simple answers, no
outside experts with a magic bullet, scarce resources
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A ‘problem’ in a city …
is work that still needs doing
Enabling conditions
Identify locals who pay attention to real, particular things
• Hubs and links: connective tissue that supports reciprocal transactions
• One size NEVER fits all: devolution encourages differentiation
• Subsidiarity brings clearer accountability
Prophetic City
- Enable self-organization and indigenous resilience to combat learned helplessness
- Embrace your assets and anticipate change: Live with water
- Democratize data: the Wisdom of Crowds
- Social and ‘soft’ media
- Distant detached decision-making dooms democracy
- Identity-reinforcing ‘hubs’ : peer-to-peer networks
- need the connection to the ‘other’ through ‘links’: civil society vehicles that enable horizontal connection
- Social cohesion by faith groups, neighborhoods and local businesses. volunteers
HOPE
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