14 Feb Contributing as Panelist & Discussant in the Session ‘Seeing Like a Region’ in the #AAG2018 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in New Orleans (11/04/2018, USA)
Dr Calzada will contribute as Discussant on 'City-Regional Geopolitics' and Panelist on 'Debates and Future Directions' on the Session: Seeing Like a Region....
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'....
24 Feb PostDoctoral Research Project > Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking
This post may be the most relevant post of this site https://www.igorcalzada.com, due to what is explained in the doctoral and postdoctoral research sequence. Furthermore, the whole PostDoctoral Research project "The Future of City-Regions - Comparative Territorial Benchmarking" can be found in the website http://www.cityregions.org...
24 Oct Download Euskal Hiria/Basque City-Region Book > presented in the Kursaal Palace – Donostia-St.Sebastian (Spain)
After 6 years of working beween 2005-2011, interviewing and doing some international (mainly USA (Portland, Oregon) & Ireland, but also Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Germany) participative observation field work research about Cities & Territories, Igor Calzada Ph.D. presented the BOOK that was published in a full...
13 May Bonding/Bridging/Linking > Social Capital for #Peace (in the Basque Country)
I have always been interested in the subtle notion of the Social Capital in our current societies. This is a bitakora reflection on Putnam's Bonding, Bridging and Linking applied to the Basque Country's more than desirable peace....
17 Mar Mapping the Urban Innovation Ecosystem of San Francisco Bay Area at the University of Mondragon Unibertsitatea-LEINN Social Entrepreneurship Undergraduates team
Trying to connect LEINNers' (LEINN students) projects with San Francisco Bay Area reality....
25 Jan Doctoral Research Fellowship & Award by the Spanish Prince > Premio Proyecto de Investigación Euskal Hiria / Ciudad Vasca
One month after departing to the USA, to start writing my dissertation in March 2008 I received some very important news: My Doctoral research project about the Basque City-Region (Euskal Hiria / Ciudad-Región Vasca) had been awarded. On May 28th, I received the research award...
07 Nov Bowling Alone >> #Mugalari
It was Robert Putnam, the key author observing the social phenomenon that meant the foundation of the concept, Social Capital. His interesting experiment observing the bowling rooms, provided us an interesting perspective from which to compare, connect, or even benchmark the social diverse context and...