The Second Urban Revolution

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

Juval Portugali (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

404 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-5011-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Contents
Preface to the English edition vii
Preface to the Hebrew edition viii
The second urban revolution: an introduction 1
PART I THE FIRST URBAN REVOLUTION
1 The first urban revolution 26
2 Darwin, neo-Darwinism and the urban revolution 51
3 The first urban revolution as a self-organized process 78
4 The view from the periphery 103
5 The first urban revolution of ancient Israel 120
PART II IN BETWEEN
6 What is a city? 163
7 The two cultures of cities 183
8 Nationalism, self, and the city 200
PART III THE SECOND URBAN REVOLUTION
9 The second urban revolution – the view from the Israeli-
Palestinian periphery 224
10 From the urban revolution to the age of cities? 246
11 The urban revolution according to Lefebvre and his critics 269
12 On the brink of the second urban revolution and beyond it 283
13 Complexity, self-organization and the second urban revolution 309
14 The smile of the Cheshire Cat and the city 343
References 352

Erscheinungsdatum	27.11.2025
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-0353-5011-4 / 1035350114
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-5011-7 / 9781035350117
Zustand	Neuware