Contents: Part I Introduction -- 1. Transitions in socio-technical systems and challenges of city leadership / Marina van Geenhuizen, Adam Holbrook and Mozhdeh Taheri -- Part II Assets and networks in cities -- Energy -- 2. Cities and photovoltaic inventions: global leaders over time / Pieter...

Contents: 1. Introduction: architecture and modern cities -- Part I The hard side -- 2. Stimulating the revival of the city -- 3. Establishing business center status -- 4. Establishing global city status - the world's tallest building -- 5. Creating transformative parks -- Part II The soft side...

Contents: Part I: Methodology and disaster impact analysis -- 1. Blessing in disguise - long-run benefits of urban disasters / Kamila Borsekova, Peter Nijkamp -- 2. Natural selection: Firm performance following a catastrophic earthquake / Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes, Levente Timar -- 3. What...

Contents: Introduction / Jan Fagerberg -- Part I Essentials -- 1. Jan Fagerberg (2004), 'Innovation: a guide to the literature', in Jan Fagerberg, David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (eds), Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1-26 -- 2. Jan Fagerberg...

Contents: 1. Introduction. A context-specific two-way approach to the study of innovation systems in developing and transition countries / Jana Schmutzler, Marcela Suarez, Alexandra Tsvetkova and Alessandra Faggian -- Part I. The role of public policies in developing and transforming national...

Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Accumulating human capital for sustainable development -- 2. Education bubble and widening inequality -- 3. Making education diversification reform happen -- 4. Turning around failing vocational high schools -- 5. Deteriorating skills and weak life-long...

"Urban Economics and Urban Policy" pulls together cutting-edge developments in urban and regional economics and draws out their implications for urban policy. This new urban economics goes beyond simple comparative advantage and cost competitiveness of cities, and beyond simple views of capital...