The article presents a broad debate regarding the critical transformations around the smart city mainstream trend by arguing in favour of including mundane technologies in the analysis of the current socio-technical needs for cities....
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...
This is the result of the collaboration with Antonio Gutierrez-Rubí in an event that took place and was organized by the University of Lleida (Catalonia) on 19th January 2013: The book Networked-Nation....
Between March and November 2012, I was the Scientific Director organizing the Basque City-Region 2012 Congress in collaboration with the Spatial Planning of the Basque Government. All the content was stored in two platforms: one in Basque & Spanish and the other one in English....
On 27th April 2012, being invited by Future of Cities Group from the LSE Cities, I participated in a seminar about Smart Strategies in the Developing World. ...
After presenting the book at the Kursaal Palace in St. Sebastian on 3rd November 2011, there was a sequence of dissemination activities to introduce the book publicly. To sum up, it was presented in November in: El Correo Español, Innobasque, Eutokia, Bizkaie, IdeaLab and Pintxos...
After 6 years of working beween 2005-2011, interviewing and doing some international (mainly USA (Portland, Oregon) & Ireland, but also Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Germany) participative observation field work research about Cities & Territories, Igor Calzada Ph.D. presented the BOOK that was published in a full...
I have always been interested in the subtle notion of the Social Capital in our current societies. This is a bitakora reflection on Putnam's Bonding, Bridging and Linking applied to the Basque Country's more than desirable peace....
Since 2000, I was always attracted by Dublin as a city but also as the capital city of Ireland (a country that I have been visited on a large number of occasions). Due to this, I also integrated it in my PhD research agenda, carrying...
