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...
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...
After defending my PhD dissertation, I was interviewed by the main newspapers and radio stations about the content and future research agenda of the "Basque City-Region from the Social Innovation perspective"....
It was Robert Putnam, the key author observing the social phenomenon that meant the foundation of the concept, Social Capital. His interesting experiment observing the bowling rooms, provided us an interesting perspective from which to compare, connect, or even benchmark the social diverse context and...
Cities, as Matthew Barney pointed out, are fabric of space made up of water, modernity and urban imagination. Here are some pictures to illustrate this idea....
I arrived in Portland in March 2009. It was a highly productive time of my doctoral research at the PSU, but I also interviewed some other stakeholders in the City-Region of Portland (Oregon). Definitely, I stepped up the field work case that would be...
For my doctoral PhD field work research, I carried out some interviews mainly in 3 cities in the West Coast of the USA: San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The second city attracted my attention and my research once I saw the similarities and the potentialities...
