A few items of interest

• Michael Batty recently received the Bill Alonso Memorial Prize for his publication Cities and Complexity. Here's a link to the presentation he gave on receipt of the prize. His blog, A Science of Cities, has a number of interesting items, including links to diagrammatic representations of the flow of European debt by both the BBC and the New York Times.
• Resilience Science has a couple of interesting posts about the role of leaders in system transformation: What are leaders really for? and Stabilizing Collectives in the Study of Transformation: Instead of “key-individuals” 
• A couple of recent interesting MA theses dealing with the process of regime shifts and their relation to system transformation: Using Complexity Theory Methods for Sociological Theory Development - With a Case Study on Socio-Technical Transitions and The domino effect : A network analysis of regime shifts drivers and causal pathways