Welcome to Dr. Igor Calzada

01 Mar

Posted at 01:10h in home, Projects by
0 Likes
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_gTTSNA3QA[/embed] He lectures on two modules: (i) Global Cities: Sustainability and Society; (ii) Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities. The lectureship focuses on the case-study co-production with students in two main fields: (i) Transformative Smart Cities and (ii) Changing Social Innovation.   Here is the outcome of the FIRST edition, 2015/16: Ref.: Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, & Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.

18 Jan

Posted at 16:42h in Projects, Publications by
0 Likes

This policy report, entitled 'Global Sustainable City-Regions' is the direct outcome of the new MSc Master Programme in Global Sustainable Cities jointly carried about the lecturer, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA and the seven participants/students working comparatively on seven global city-regional case-studies, as follows: Mumbai, Shenzhen,...

08 Jun

Posted at 18:41h in Publications by
0 Likes

This article addressing and summarising the four-year research project entitled 'Benchmarking Future City-Regions' will be published shortly. The article will be published in the OpenAccess (OA) Journal, RSRS Regional Studies Regional Science. The project has been funded by the Basque Foundation for Science, Ikerbasque and...

24 Feb

Posted at 18:30h in Projects, Publications by
0 Likes

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...

24 Oct

Posted at 13:52h in Publications by
0 Likes

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...

07 Nov

Posted at 18:18h in Projects, Sin categoría by
0 Likes

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...