Welcome to Dr. Igor Calzada

01 Mar

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[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

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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,...

14 Oct

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During the week of 22nd to 29th September 2013, I spent the field work trip collecting data in Reykjavik (Iceland) for my postdoctoral project 'Benchmarking Future City-Regions'. Almost, a year and four months later, here is my scientific ethnographic chronicle that has been published in...

09 Apr

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Ikea launched an advertisement which they used to spread the idea of the indoors domestic culture: "Come into the independent republic of your HOME". Bearing in mind the massive influence of this advertisement and the impact in the Basque Country, I reflected on the fact...

16 Sep

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Within three days, discussions highlighted: socioeconomics of creativity, the impact of postindustrial and networked upcoming society, the changes in the labor market, the role of the creative industries related to other sectors, the hybridization processes taking place in different international territories, the new business experiences...