This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

Green roofs are strategic tools that can play a significant role in the creation of sustainable
and resilient cities. They have been largely investigated thanks to their high retention …

The paper investigates the choice of the transport mode to access the city center of Trieste,
Italy. We have collected revealed and stated choice data and attitudinal data in order to …

We document a strong positive relationship between natural resource exports and
urbanization in a sample of 116 developing nations over the period 1960–2010. In countries …

We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by
the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business …

We estimate the effects of interstate highways on the growth of US cities between 1983 and
2003. We find that a 10% increase in a city's initial stock of highways causes about a 1.5 …

Large cities produce more output per capita than small cities. This higher productivity may
occur because more talented individuals sort into large cities, because large cities select …

Using administrative German data, we show that large cities allow for a more efficient
matching between workers and firms and this has important consequences for geographical …

Enhancing urban innovation is the basic for promoting regional and national innovation.
With data of 103 Chinese cities from 2007 to 2016, this paper takes low-carbon pilot cities …

The expansion of built-up area is the most noticeable form of urbanization-induced land
use/land cover (LULC) change. In the global cities of south, the urban sprawl is increasing …