This policy report has been commissioned by the Future Cites Catapult as a collaborative undertaking with Dr Calzada, MACI Innovations and Translokal publishing to research the topic of Smart Infrastructure in nominated Cities in both the UK and Brazil. Future Cities Catapult is a global...
‘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...
Dr Calzada will be the curator of the Politics in Spires Special Series entitled 'Between Independence & Re-centralisation: Political Innovation in an Age of Devolution' sponsored by the University of Oxford & Cambridge (UK). Politics in Spires is a platform that aims to bring academic...
On 23rd September Dr Calzada attended the STEEP EU project no. 314277 'Systems Thinking for Comprehensive City Efficient Energy Planning' in Bristol as a member of the Advisory Board. The project aims to design a Smart City Director Plan after the cross-learning process of three...
"PostIndependence: Comparing city-regional devolution strategic scenarios in Scotland, Catalonia and the BasqueCountry" paper has been accepted and will be presented at Policy & Politics 2014 Conference at the University of Bristol in September 17th (just the day before the Scottish #indyref)....
