Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World
by Jeb Brugmann
Table of Contents
Part I: The Urban Revolution
Chapter 1
Look Again A View from the Expanding Edge of the Global City
Chapter 2
The Improbable Life of an Urban Patch Deciphering the Hidden Logic of Global Urban Growth
Chapter 3
The Great Migration The Rise of Homo Urbanis
Chapter 4
Anatomy of Urban Revolution The Inevitable Democracy of the City
Chapter 5
The Tyrants’ Demise The Irrepressible Economics of Urban Association
Chapter 6
What We Can Learn from the Way that Migrants Build Their Cities Buildings, City Models, and Citysystems
Part II: The City Adrift
Chapter 7
The Final Phase Two Billion New City Dwellers In Search of a New Urbanism
Chapter 8
Cities of Crisis Sources of Global Vulnerability
Chapter 9
Great Opportunities Cities Stuck in Negotiation
Chapter 10
A Planet Transformed Urban Ecosystem of Global Dystopia?
Part III: Strategy for an Urban Planet
Chapter 11
The Strategic City From Global Burden to Global Solution
Chapter 12
Designing the Ecosystem A New City Rises on the Serra do Mar Plateau
Chapter 13
Building Local Culture Reclaiming the Streets of Gracia District, Barcelona
Chapter 14
Governing the Entrepreneurial City Local Markets and the Resurgence of Chicago
Chapter 15
Co-creating the Citysystem Towards a World of Urban Regimes
