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Integral metamap creates common language for urban change

Marilyn Hamilton (TDG Global Learning Connections, Abbotsford, Canada)

Journal of Organizational Change Management

ISSN: 0953-4814

Article publication date: 1 May 2006

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Abstract

Purpose

An integral metamap creates a common language to dynamically track values‐based urban change at multiple levels of scale: individual, organization, neighbourhood, city, bio‐region and nation.

Design/methodology/approach

In a pilot project, using an ethnographic codebook, analysis of data collected from urban residents via telephone interviews, discloses diverse lenses, indicators and values at different levels of complexity. A four quadrant metamap of the data reveals the relationship between four sets of values: (subjective, intersubjective, objective and interobjective) at eight levels of complexity.

Findings

A review of taxonomies of indicators shows how multiple existing data bases can be translated into a common integral map. The pilot project demonstrates how the four quadrant‐based analysis and feedback methodology creates vital signs monitors for what we value, want to change (stop or improve), and how we can develop processes to influence change.

Research limitations/implications

The scope of application is global, and embedded in a paradigm shift to an integral worldview, implying users share that worldview. However, the methodology can be applied anywhere, on all scales.

Practical implications

Conclusions show how metamapping research data, planning and management, contributes to improving choices, monitoring and influencing change and the quality of urban life.

Originality/value

This paper proposes a new integral common language to frame and track urban change.

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Citation

Hamilton, M. (2006), "Integral metamap creates common language for urban change", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 276-306. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810610668319

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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