CONTENTS Preface ix Part I: The Urban Revolution 1. Look Again: A View from the Expanding Edge of the Global City 3 2. The Improbable Life of an Urban Patch: Deciphering the Hidden Logic of Global Urban Growth 17 3. The Great Migration: The Rise of Homo Urbanis 33 4. Anatomy of Urban Revolution: The Inevitable Democracy of the City 55 5. The Tyrants' Demise: The Irrepressible Economics of Urban Association 75 6. What We Can Learn from the Way That Migrants Build Their Cities: Buildings, City Models, and Citysystems 92 Part II: The City Adrift 7. The Final Phase: Two Billion New City Dwellers in Search of a New Urbanism 113 8. Cities of Crisis: Sources of Global Vulnerability 132 9. Great Opportunities Cities: Stuck in Negotiation 157 10. A Planet Transformed: Urban Ecosystem or Global Dystopia? 185 Part III: Strategy for an Urban Planet 11. The Strategic City: From Global Burden to Global Solution 201 12. Designing the Ecosystem: A New City Rises on the Serra do Mar Plateau 214 13. Building Local Culture: Reclaiming the Streets of Gracia District, Barcelona 229 14. Governing the Entrepreneurial City: Local Markets and the Resurgence of Chicago 250 15. Cocreating the Citysystem: Toward a World of Urban Regimes 273 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 291 Index 331