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