"city of innovation" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you might use it in a sentence like this: "Philadelphia has long been known as a city of innovation, with numerous cutting-edge start-ups."
Medvedev's signature initiative, the Skolkovo "city of innovation," will likely receive continuing support from the Kremlin, although it will have little long-term impact without a thorough nationwide crackdown on corruption and red tape.
The EPCOT envisioned by Disney ― an actual city of innovation, or the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ― never came to fruition.
This industry has the potential to win back Detroit's title of "The City of Innovation" as people entering health care will require advanced skills, including IT training.
The city of Medellin has earned it's namesake as the 'City of Innovation' by teaching us the true definition of innovation; a break-through, something new and different, a transformation or upheaval.
It is easier than ever to seed financing in the "second cities" of innovation.
Dubai is a city of both innovation and luxury at the same time.
Ultimately, the plan is to manage 60% of rainwater falling in the cities. "A sponge city follows the philosophy of innovation: that a city can solve water problems instead of creating them.
The City's director of innovation, Jay Nath, is building DataSF.org – what he calls "the city's one stop web site for government data".
Kathryn S. Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City, where Mr. Hidary spoke to a group of tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, said, "He was their favorite of all the mayoral candidates in terms of somebody who understood their industry and their interests and who would pursue Bloomberg's effort to make the city the center of innovation".
This also makes cities spaces of innovations, small and large.
In another chapter Mr. Lehrer makes a strong case for cities as incubators of innovation.
