19 Oct Keynote speaker at the ‘Nordic Basque Forum’ in Bilbao (19/10/2017, Basque Country/Spain)
Dr Calzada delivered the opening keynote conference of the Nordic Basque Forum in Bilbao, 19th October 2017....
19 Sep “Metropolitan and city-regional politics in the urban age: why does ‘(smart) devolution’ matter?” article published in open access by the journal Palgrave Communications
This journal article published in open access aims to draw attention to 'why does (smart) devolution matter?' either in Spain or the UK. ...
06 Mar New peer-reviewed journal article entitled ‘The Techno-Politics of Data and Smart Devolution in Cities-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao’ published in the Systems Journal , Special Issue ‘Smart Cities and Regions as Systems of Innovation’
A new journal peer-reviewed article by Dr Calzada published in the Systems Journal (ISSN 2079-8954), in the Special Issue ‘Smart Cities and Regions as Systems of Innovation’. ...
25 Nov Journal article ‘The Techno-Politics of Data and Smart Devolution in City-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Barcelona’ published in the Special Series Smart Cities and Regions as Systems of Innovation in Systems MDPI
Here is a journal peer-reviewed article by Dr Igor Calzada in which the urban and the political agenda are blended by producing a new timely outcome. The article is the final report of a EU project funded by Marie Curie Regional Programmes via Bilbao Metropoli-30...
11 Jul Keynote speaker Summer School ‘The Identity of the European Cities’ Donostia-San Sebastián (Basque Country – Spain). 11-12th July 2016
Dr Calzada will open with the keynote conference 'Is Changing the Identity of (European) Cities?' the Summer School 'The Identity of the European Cities' 2016 in Donostia-St. Sebastián (Basque Country - Spain). The Summer School that will take place on 11-12 July 2016 in the...
18 Feb ‘Comparing Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Bristol, Glasgow, Barcelona & Bilbao’ at the Oxford City Debates, University of Oxford, Future of Cities (UK) (Feb 18-19)
‘Smart city’ has already become a ‘fetish’ term to simplify complex urban debates in an uneven techno-deterministically-driven hyper-connected society. This paper compares strategically and ethnographically four specific city-region cases located in two European nation-states: Bristol and Glasgow in the UK, and Bilbao and Barcelona in...
06 Aug ‘Benchmarking Scotland, Catalonia & The Basque Country’ paper presented at UACES 45th Annual Conference, Bilbao, (Basque Country – Spain), 9 September 2015
Here is a Call for Papers I am convening with Dr Herrschel, Newman and Pedersen for the UACES 45th Annual Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 7-9 September 2015 entitled: 'European City-Regions and the Re-Scaling of the Nation-State: The Role of Cities in the Quest for Self Determination...
04 Nov Chairing ‘The City & Participation’ panel at the BIA Urban Regeneration Forum. 26th September 2014 Bilbao (Spain)
Invited by the Architect Association of the Basque Country, I chaired the panel 'The City and Participation' at the BIA Bilbao Urban Regeneration Forum on 26th September 2014....
12 May Cross Border City-Regions Beyond Nation-States: Basque & Oresund Comparative Cases paper given at the RSA Conference in Izmir (Turkey) on 17th June 2014
As a summary of the on-going comparative case studies between the Basque Country City-Region and the Oresund City-Region, myself and Fredrik Björk will disseminate it in a paper titled: Cross Border City-Regions Beyond Nation-States: Basque & Oresund Comparative Cases. ...