Welcome to Dr. Igor Calzada

18 Feb

Posted at 08:32h in Projects, Publications by
0 Likes

‘Smart city’ has already become a ‘fetish’ term to simplify complex urban debates in an uneven techno-deterministically-driven hyper-connected society. This paper compares strategically and ethnographically four specific city-region cases located in two European nation-states: Bristol and Glasgow in the UK, and Bilbao and Barcelona in...

07 Jan

Posted at 15:57h in Publications by
0 Likes

Dr Calzada was invited by the University of Torino in Italy to give a lecture on Smart City. He deployed a conceptualisation regarding smartness, devolution, social innovation and political innovation. Specially, the conference focused on the sharing economy initiatives....

14 Oct

Posted at 12:00h in Publications by
0 Likes

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...

01 Aug

Posted at 00:16h in Publications, Sin categoría by
0 Likes

Here is the first article of this collection: 'Smart State?'. The article aims to shed some light on the consequences that urban transformations are causing the the re-scalling processes in nation-states. Indeed, the article argues that Spain as a nation-state should embrace devolution and the right...