25 Jan Book review ‘Smart City Barcelona’ forthcoming in the International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS)
Dr Calzada has reviewed the book 'Smart City Barcelona' for the International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS)....
21 Nov Invited guest speaker by the King’s College London (KCL) for the panel ‘Life at the edge of nations: Hong Kong, Kashmir, Catalonia’ in London (UK) (14/11/2019)
Dr Igor Calzada was invited by the King's College by participating in the panel entitled 'Life at the edge of nations: Hong Kong, Kashmir, Catalonia'. ...
07 Sep ‘Catalonia Rescaling Spain: Is It Feasible to Accommodate Its “Stateless Citizenship”?’ article has been published in the journal Regional Science Policy & Practice
The article entitled ‘Catalonia Rescaling Spain: Is It Feasible to Accommodate Its "Stateless Citizenship"?' has been published in Regional Science, Policy & Practice journal....
23 Jan Urban Governance and City Policies Winter School 2019 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (25/01/2019, Spain)
Dr Calzada participates in the Urban Governance and City Policies Winter School 2019 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona organised by Barcelona Gov....
05 Jan ‘Metropolitanising small European stateless city-regionalised nations’ article has been published in the journal Space and Polity
The article entitled ‘Metropolitanising small European stateless city-regionalised nations’ has been published in the Space and Polity journal....
01 Feb Publishing the chapter on ‘Political Regionalism: Devolution, Metropolitanisation and the Right to Decide’ in the Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories by Edward Elgar
Dr Calzada has contributed to Edward Elgar's Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories volume kindly edited by Prof Anssi Paasi, Prof John Harrison, and Prof Martin Jones. Dr Calzada's chapter entitled 'Political Regionalism: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'....
07 Jan Publishing the journal article ‘Metropolitan and city-regional politics in the urban age: why does (smart) devolution matter?’ in Palgrave Communications
Dr Calzada published the article entitled 'Metropolitan and city-regional politics in the urban age: why does (smart) devolution matter?' via Palgrave Communications....
19 Nov Invited Guest Speaker on ‘Data Devolution in Europe’ in the session ‘Smart Cities & Data’ at MSc in Data, Analytics & Cloud at the ESADE Business School in Barcelona (23/11/2017, Catalonia/Spain)
Dr Calzada elaborated on 'Data Commons and Devolution in Europe: GDPR' in the Speakers session in ESADE Business School by presenting two journal articles:
- Calzada, I. (2017), The Techno-Politics of Data and Smart Devolution in City-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao. Systems Journal 5(1): 1-18. Special Issue ‘Smart Cities and Regions as Systems of Innovation’ (ISSN 2079-8954). DOI: 10.3390/systems5010018
- Calzada, I. (2017), Problematizing and Politicizing Smart City-Regions: Is Devolution Smart?, Territorio, Special Issue ‘From Smart City to Smart Region. Meanings, Governance, Policies and Projects’. (ISSN: 1825-8689)
Here is the video summarizing several findings of an ongoing research study:
In this interview Dr Esteve Almirall asked regarding several questions related to the technopolitics of data, the geotechnological disruptive processes in Europe, the Algorithmic Nations, and among other topics.
17 Nov Giving advice to Projectes d’Especialització i Competitivitat Territorial (PECT)/RIS3CAT/FEDER. TurisTIC LivingLab. Tourism Living Lab Training Workshop in Tarragona (17/11/2017, Catalonia/Spain)
Dr Calzada conducted an internal learning-by-doing session with the Province Council of Tarragona on Tourism Living Labs....