Dr Igor Calzada opened with a keynote speaker the inaugural MACI Innovations Future City event, which took place in Roxburghe Hotel, in support of Rowan Alba a homelessness charity based in Edinburgh. In the event, in addition to the speakers coming from MACI Innovations and...
Since January 2015, Dr Igor Calzada is Lecturer at the Master MSc in Global Sustainable Cities at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. This new Master will start on September 2015 with two modules that will be in...
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....
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...
A paper about Smart Devolution was presented in Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at the 'Smart City-Regional Governance - International Symposium' on 8 and 9th October....
Dr Igor Calzada will deliver a presentation on 25th September 2015 in Glasgow in the PechaKucha event entitle 'Visions of Future of Cities' at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He will provide some recommendations regarding the strategic change...
Here is a Call for Papers I am convening with Dr Herrschel, Newman and Pedersen for the UACES 45th Annual Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 7-9 September 2015 entitled: 'European City-Regions and the Re-Scaling of the Nation-State: The Role of Cities in the Quest for Self Determination...
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...
Analysis on the General Elections 2015 in the United Kingdom in Onda Vasca, a Basque radio station in Spain. Programme conducted by the Basque journalist, Xabier Lapitz...
