Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, gave a talk on European Regional Development Funds entitled 'Towards a Smart (City-)Region? Territorial & Urban Transformations' in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Vilanova i la Geltru (Catalonia-Spain).

1. Towards a Smart (City-)Region?
Territorial & Urban Transforma<ons
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Future of Ci<es & Urban Transforma<ons, University of Oxford
Lecturer, Ins<tute for Future Ci<es, University of Strathclyde
Visi<ng Research Fellow, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com/about
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
Neápolis (Public Agency of Innova<on)
Vilanova i la Geltru (Barcelona-Catalonia), 6 April 2016

2. Cap a una (Ciutat-)Regió Intel·ligent?
Transformacions Territorials i Urbanes
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Future of Ci<es & Urban Transforma<ons, University of Oxford
Lecturer, Ins<tute for Future Ci<es, University of Strathclyde
Visi<ng Research Fellow, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com/about
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
Neápolis (Public Agency of Innova<on)
Vilanova i la Geltru (Barcelona-Catalonia), 6 April 2016

3. Index
1. Bio
2. Big ‘internaHonal’ picture
3. Unplugging Smart CiHes
4. Final Remarks: Towards a Smart (City)-Region?
Five Policy RecomendaHons for FEDER > RIS3CAT > PECT
(Planes de Especialización y CompeHHvidad Territorial)

5. 2012-2015:
Future of Ci<es Programme
www.futureofciHes.ox.ac.uk

6. 2016 <
Urban Transforma<ons ESRC
www.urbantransforma<ons.ox.ac.uk
• From smart data to infrastructure,
• parHcipatory design to migraHon,
• the Urban TransformaHons projects share a mulHdisciplinary
focus
• and a forward-looking vision
• of how our urban future can be shaped
• to achieve be]er outcomes
• for communiHes, businesses and local authoriHes.
• Together, they establish a foundaHon of original research and
best pracHce in:
• the UK, Europe and internaHonally.

7. @HarvardBiz

10. By @translokal

11. By @translokal
By @translokal

12. By @translokal

13. TRANSLOKAL

14. h]ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2a6Dmt2MYs

15. @perjovschi

17. By @TheAtlantic
Smart City?

18. @perjovschi
3. ‘Unplugging’
Smart Ci<es

19. Beyond Hyper Connected Socie<es >
Need to Deconstruct the Smart City

20. UNPLUGGING 2 noHons
① Being digitally connected/plugged in is no
guarantee of being smart (Evans 2002: 34)
② Technology is never neutral, and it has the
potenHal and capacity to be used socially and
poliHcally for quite different purpose (Williams
1983: 128)

21. By @EU_H2020
To get out from the
‘smart city-in-the-box’
approach

22. #UNPLUGGING
through
10 TRANSITIONS

23. 1560 views
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24. UNPLUGGING
the
SMART
CITY
1
WHO
2
HOW
3
SYSTEMS
4
GOVERNANCE
5
INFORMATION
6
FOCUS
7
SPACE
8
DESIGN
9
SOCIO-
POLITICAL
PROCESSES
10
POLITICAL
ECONOMY
Social
&
Digital
Divide
Individualism
vs
Collec<vism
Socio-
Technical
Systems
Master Planning
vs.
Emergent Plan
and
Top Down
vs.
Bojom Up
Overload
vs
Scarcity
Social
Netking
vs
Social
Capital
Context
Collapse
Ambient
Commons
Control &
Norma<ve
vs
Free &
Emergent
Profitable
vs
Non-
Profitable
Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2015), Unplugging: Deconstruc1ng the Smart City, Journal of Urban
Technology. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535
h]p://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535#abstract
Also in Open Access via @ResearchGate:
h]ps://www.researchgate.net/publicaHon/
289522452_AOM_Unplugging_DeconstrucHng_the_Smart_City

28. H2020-SCC-EU-1st Lighthouse
REPLICATE

29. H2020-SCC-EU-1st Lighthouse
REPLICATE

30. By @icalzada

31. By @icalzada
To unplug the smart city approach?

32. 4. Final Remarks:
Towards a Smart (City)-Region?
Five
Policy Recomenda<ons

38. Smart City-Regions
InnovaHve ‘transi<ons’ using:
1. Established powers and policy-making tools, including
collabora<ve networks across insHtuHonal and territorial
divisions between metropolitan and regional stakeholders.
2. New ideas about:
• economic development
• translocal strategies for small interconnected territories
• democra<c legi<macy
• public innova<on
• poli<cal inclusion.
(Adapted from Herschell & Dierwechter, 2015, pp. 20-22)

40. Smart City-Regions
5 Factors

41. www.cityregions.org
1/
Metropolitan
City-Regional
Multilevel
Governance

42. 10
Experience
+
Open Data
Calzada, I. (2015), Benchmarking Future City-Regions beyond NaHon-States, RSRS
Regional Studies Regional Science, 2:1, 350-361, DOI:
10.1080/21681376.2015.1046908.

43. • In an urban world, providing effecHve governance of
metropolitan areas cusng across tradiHonal boundaries is
a challenge.
• Local government is sHll the place where the ciHzen meets
the state.
• Mul<level governance is the term used to describe how
policy-makers and interest groups in liberal democracies
find themselves discussing, persuading, and negoHaHng
across mulHple Hers, seeking to deliver coherent policy in
specific func<onal areas such as transport and educaHon.

44. h]p://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2015.1046908
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45. Social
Entrepreneurs
By @icalzada
2/
Multi-Stakeholders
Calzada, I. (2013), CriHcal Social InnovaHon in the Smart City era for a City-Regional European
Horizon 2020. Journal of Public Policies & Territory P3T. Vol 2, Nº 6 (2013): Social InnovaHon &
Territory. Winter. pp. 1-20.

46. Calzada, I. (2013), CriHcal Social InnovaHon in the Smart City era for a City-Regional European
Horizon 2020. Journal of Public Policies & Territory P3T. Vol 2, Nº 6 (2013): Social InnovaHon &
Territory. Winter. pp. 1-20.

47. 3/
• providing incen<ves to entrepreneurs and other organisaHons (universiHes and
research centres) to be involved in the discovery of the respecHve regional
specialisaHon;
• evalua<ng and assessing the effec<veness of such support, so that it is not
interrupted too early or conHnued too long, and ensuring that support is directed
towards economic sectors with significant weight and opportuniHes for
improvement;
• providing complementary investments (e.g., in training and educaHon) for the
emerging specialisaHons;
• providing informaHon and facilitaHng coordinaHon and connecHons among the
different actors of a given territory and with other territories.
Smart
Specialisa<on

48. #UrbanTransforma<ons
#Europe

49. 4/ BIG/OPEN DATA:
• Big Data/Open Data for Urban Movements to Forecast Decisions.
• Data visualisaHon
• Incubators of Public Spaces (Habitat III)
• Self-organising city
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS AND ADAPTABILITY:
• City economic evoluHons
• Local economic growth
• CreaHve urban districts
• Highly mobile knowledge professionals (ConnecHng Talent)
• Translocal economies
GOVERNANCE:
• Urban sustainability transiHons in living labs
• CollaboraHve governance under austerity
LOCALITIES & MIGRATION:
• Super diverse streets economies
• Smart neighbourhoods
Territorial & Urban
Transforma<ons

50. 5/
Social Innovation

51. Smart City-Regions:
5 Factors
1. Right combinaHon of the Metropolitan, City-Regional and Mul<level
Governance (Calzada 2015)
2. Mul<stakeholder approach: Social Capital and Belonging (Guibernau
2014).
3. InternaHonal strategy based on Smart Specialisa<on. (Morgan 2016)
4. Considering current Territorial & Urban Transforma<ons in the area.
5. Recovering welfare via Social Innova<on intervenHons (Calzada 2013).

52. Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Urban Transforma<ons & Future of Ci<es
University of Oxford
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
Skype: icalzada
(0) 1865 274687
Gràcies
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