This journal article published in open access aims to draw attention to 'why does (smart) devolution matter?' either in Spain or the UK. ...
A new journal peer-reviewed article by Dr Calzada published in the Systems Journal (ISSN 2079-8954), in the Special Issue ‘Smart Cities and Regions as Systems of Innovation’. ...
Here is a journal peer-reviewed article by Dr Igor Calzada in which the urban and the political agenda are blended by producing a new timely outcome. The article is the final report of a EU project funded by Marie Curie Regional Programmes via Bilbao Metropoli-30...
Dr Calzada will open with the keynote conference 'Is Changing the Identity of (European) Cities?' the Summer School 'The Identity of the European Cities' 2016 in Donostia-St. Sebastián (Basque Country - Spain). The Summer School that will take place on 11-12 July 2016 in the...
‘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...
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...
Invited by the Architect Association of the Basque Country, I chaired the panel 'The City and Participation' at the BIA Bilbao Urban Regeneration Forum on 26th September 2014....
As a summary of the on-going comparative case studies between the Basque Country City-Region and the Oresund City-Region, myself and Fredrik Björk will disseminate it in a paper titled: Cross Border City-Regions Beyond Nation-States: Basque & Oresund Comparative Cases. ...
The Club of Rome has a group in the Basque Country organizing seminars systematically. I was invited to talk about "Welcome to the Basque City-Region" in order to explain the future scenarios and strategic challenges of the Basque Country becoming a policentric City-Region. The seminar...
