24 Feb PostDoctoral Research Project > Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking

This post may be the most relevant post of this site https://www.igorcalzada.com, due to what is explained in the doctoral and postdoctoral research sequence. Furthermore, the whole PostDoctoral Research project “The Future of City-Regions – Comparative Territorial Benchmarking” can be found in the website http://www.cityregions.org:

• 1> Firstly, there is my doctoral thesis which compares the Basque case (Euskal Hiria) with Portland (Oregon) and Dublin (Ireland) by the 5-System City-Region Framework which you can see below:

• 2> Secondly, here are the BOOKS published by the Basque Government (in Spanish) and by Innobasque (in English and Basque)

• 3> Thirdly, you can see the briefing or the executive summary of the PhD in a nutshell (in three languages, English, Basque and Spanish):

• 4> Fourthly, here you have the way I have been accumulating sequentially case studies until I got 8 case studies. Nowadays, this field work research is carried out in within 8 case studies. As you can see, in my PhD I compared 3 cases, while in my PostDoctoral period in Oxford I summarize another 5 cases, as you can see in the picture below:

• 5> Finally, the action research based methodology I carried out could be synthesized in some qualitative techniques that have been used in the empirical field work research:

• Mapping
• Ethnographic fieldwork
• Comparative Territorial Benchmarking
• Think Tank for Policy-makers
• Conceptualisation and Deconstruction
• …