The Second Urban Revolution

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'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.' -- Shlomo Angel, New York University, New York 'A culmination of a lifetime's work, this book offers a bold new synthesis of fundamental questions in urbanization, complexity, geography, and society. Portugali presents an original, unifying perspective on social theory while addressing urgent global issues-from rising nationalism to the evolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict.' -- Luis M. A. Bettencourt, University of Chicago, USA 'In this rich and enlightening book, Portugali explores the urban phenomenon from the theoretical standpoints of complexity and cognition. The originality of this work lies in the systematic attempt to interestingly combine the viewpoint of social sciences and that of hard sciences to investigate cities and their peculiarities. The challenging book's central thesis is that the essence of what Portugali calls the "second urban revolution" is a shift from nationalism (i.e. the dominant social order in the twentieth century), to urbanism (since the end of the twentieth century, emerging as a new form of generative order of society).' -- Stefano Moroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy