05 Jun Member of the Editorial Board of Smart Cities MDPI Open Access Journal
Dr Calzada has recently been appointed member of the Editorial Board of the open access journal 'Smart Cities' MDPI....
20 Apr Panelist on ‘Transforming Tourism from a Regional Perspective: Challenges, Visions, Ways Forward’ roundtable at the University of Deusto in St. Sebastian (03/05/2018, Basque Country/Spain)
Dr Calzada participated in the roundtable entitled 'Transforming Tourism from the European Regions' at the University of Deusto, held by Ezkerraberri foundation and funded by Coppieters foundation. The conference and the roundtable revolved around alternatives views forward on tourism and its consequences in localised in...
11 Jan Invited Instructor/Guest Lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts (11/01/2018, USA)
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'....
25 Nov Journal article ‘The Techno-Politics of Data and Smart Devolution in City-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Barcelona’ published in the Special Series Smart Cities and Regions as Systems of Innovation in Systems MDPI
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...
05 Mar Portland State University PSU (Portland – Oregon, USA)
I arrived in Portland in March 2009. It was a highly productive time of my doctoral research at the PSU, but I also interviewed some other stakeholders in the City-Region of Portland (Oregon). Definitely, I stepped up the field work case that would be...
01 Nov Mr OBAMA era?
There was a huge noise outside where I lived, Twin Peaks in San Francisco. I left my home, started walking and ended up in a crowd which was cheering and shouting: It seemed to be the beginning of the Obama era. Nevertheless, was it a...