On the brink of the second urban revolution and beyond it

Juval Portugali

Chapter 12 in The Second Urban Revolution, 2025, pp 286-312 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: How is it that the leading researchers in the domain of cities and urbanism accept most of Lefebvre's assertions but one – the urban revolution? They reach the threshold of Lefebvre's urban revolution, but here they stop and do not cross the threshold. Chapter 12 demonstrates, firstly, that the threshold is Lefebvre's assertion that spatiality, be it nationalism and/or urbanism, may be the driving force of society. Secondly, this refusal to cross the threshold is responsible for one of the great failures of social theory, namely, to appreciate the significance of nationalism (a point emphasized by Berlin). The theoretical position capable of crossing this threshold, Chapter 12 suggests, is the one that commences from the view of the city as a hybrid complex system. Chapter 12 then develops and expands this viewpoint based on a series of theoretical and empirical studies conducted in the last two decades. The latter includes empirical studies of “exploratory behavior,” a view of cities in terms of information theory, and information adaptation by means of SIRNIA.

Keywords: Generative order; Exploratory behavior; Information adaptation; Artifacts; SIRNIA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035350117
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