Second Urban Revolution

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Complexity, Cognition and the View From the Israeli-Palestinian Periphery

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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In this timely book, Juval Portugali ties together ancient archaeology with the present to explore the city as a phenomenon that has been rapidly increasing in power and importance since its earliest emergence. He links the walled cities of ancient civilization with modern-day borderless cities, while providing connections between modern nationalism and postmodern urbanism.With a specific focus on two urban revolutions, the first emergence of the city 5,500 years ago and the urban revolution we are currently undergoing, Portugali analyzes the shift to a global population residing predominantly in urban environments. He examines these two urban revolutions from the perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian periphery, in terms of complex-cognitive, self-organized systems. Ultimately, the book addresses how urbanism is becoming the driving force behind human life and consciousness for the first time in history and expresses a new theory of ancient and modern urbanism oriented around socio-spatial evolution.Investigating the interrelation between complexity theory and cognitive theory – and their connection to the city – this book is an enlightening read for scholars and students of urban studies, human geography, political geography and geopolitics, and urban economics. It is also a crucial resource for those researching cities and complexity.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-04
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035350117

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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.’