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...
Invited by the new prospective initiative launched by the University of the Basque Country, EHUGunea, I gave a conference on 3rd May 2013 about the future of the Basque Country through a scenario planning technique. The outcome of the conference was titled: Balance & Imbalance...
Following my research interest in the Oresund City-Region, but also in Sweden and Denmark as two territories where I considered Social Innovation is being experienced in too many areas, in August 2011, I did a field work research trip among these cities: Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Malmö...
In August 2008, I was invited by Ennistymon's (West of Ireland, Co. Clare) Arts and Cultural Festival 2011 as a guest speaker to give a talk about "The Power of Local". I mainly talked about two concepts that could be applied to territories such...
Jane Jacobs was the activist that arrived in recent days to show us how to take into account local neighborhoods. When the global market has corrupted our superstructure, local communities, civil society and localism as a whole have emerged as a miracle and a hype...
Cities, as Matthew Barney pointed out, are fabric of space made up of water, modernity and urban imagination. Here are some pictures to illustrate this idea....
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...
