Second Urban Revolution

Juval Portugali, Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography and the Human Environment and Head of the City Center-Tel Aviv University Research Center for Cities and Urbanism, Tel Aviv University, Israel

• ContentsPreface to the English edition viiPreface to the Hebrew edition viiiThe second urban revolution: an introduction 1PART I THE FIRST URBAN REVOLUTION1 The first urban revolution 262 Darwin, neo-Darwinism and the urban revolution 513 The first urban revolution as a self-organized process 784 The view from the periphery 1035 The first urban revolution of ancient Israel 120PART II IN BETWEEN6 What is a city? 1637 The two cultures of cities 1838 Nationalism, self, and the city 200PART III THE SECOND URBAN REVOLUTION9 The second urban revolution – the view from the Israeli-Palestinian periphery 22410 From the urban revolution to the age of cities? 24611 The urban revolution according to Lefebvre and his critics 26912 On the brink of the second urban revolution and beyond it 28313 Complexity, self-organization and the second urban revolution 30914 The smile of the Cheshire Cat and the city 343References 352

‘There is a new and ill-understood tension between the emerging globalized network of multi-national cities and the national (and more homogeneous) peripheries surrounding them, and Professor Portugali manages to weave a fascinating story—grounded in a wide variety of contemporary theories and emerging new evidence—to explain this tension, claiming it to be nothing less than a second urban revolution.’