The first urban revolution

Juval Portugali

Chapter 1 in The Second Urban Revolution, 2025, pp 26-50 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The first part of this book focuses on the first urban revolution. Chapter 1 opens Part I by locating the first urban revolution within the broader context of the major revolutions in human history, such as the hominid and Neolithic revolutions. It continues by presenting classical theories of early transitions first to agriculture and then, as a consequence, to urbanism. The latter transition was coined by Childe as “the urban revolution”. While Childe's interpretation of the urban revolution was in line with Marxist approaches, subsequent interpretations, e.g. by Carneiro, interpreted it from the perspectives of Spencer's and Bosetup's population theory, Verhulst's logistic curve, and the notion of environmental carrying capacity.

Keywords: Punctuated equilibrium; Marxism; Environmental carrying capacity; Spatial diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035350117
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