The second urban revolution : complexity, cognition and the view from the Israeli-Palestinian periphery / 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).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portugali, Juval, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Israel.

Human geography.

Human geography--Palestine.

Urbanization--Israel--Political aspects.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Palestine--Political aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface to the english edition

Preface to the hebrew edition

The second urban revolution: An Introduction

Part I: The first urban revolution

1. The first urban revolution

2. Darwin, neo-darwinism and the urban revolution

3. The first urban revolution as a self-organized process

4. The view from the periphery

5. The first urban revolution of ancient Israel

Part II: In between

6. What is a city?

7. The two cultures of cities

8. Nationalism, self, and the city

Part III: The second urban revolution

9. The second urban revolution - the view from the Israeli- palestinian periphery

10. From the urban revolution to the age of cities?

11. The urban revolution according to lefebvre and his critics

12. On the brink of the second urban revolution and beyond it

13. Complexity, self-organization and the second urban revolution

14. The smile of the cheshire cat and the city

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035350124 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.