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+00 34 630.75.28.76 [Basque Country- SP]+00 44 7887.661925. [UK]

igor.calzada@insis.ox.ac.ukhttp://about.me/icalzadahttp://www,igorcalzada.comSkype: icalzadaTwitter: @icalzada

heading towards a

basque city-region?heading towards a

basque city-region?an approach from social innovationan approach from social innovationproposes the possibility of diagnosing the present day Basque Country in socio-logical, territorial, cultural and business terms. To that ends (1), a definition of Euskal Hiria is created and understood as a Basque City-Region, and (2) a Sys-temic Socio-Territorial Model is employed. The following hypothesis underlies all this: The Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria is naturally configuring itself as an independent group of Basque Areas (Basque Autonomous Region, Foral Region of Navarre, Iparralde, CyberEuskadi and Diaspora).

HEADING TOWARDS A BASQUE CITY-REGION? AN APPROACH FROM SOCIAL INNOVATION < 2012

Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.Scientific Director of Euskal Hiria 2012 City-Region Congress

http://www.euskalhiria.org http://www.basquecity.org

PostDoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford Programme for the Future of the Cities University of Oxford [UK]. InSIS & COMPAS

& Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science.

download:http://www.igorcalzada.com/download-here-basque-city-euskal-hiria-book-executive-summary

CITY-REGIONCITY-REGION

The infrastructures have been used with a certain cost and usage rate. Ac-cording to the land use perspective, we could im-plement in some critical spaces resilient and stakeholders agreed community based transi-tion interventions.

URBSURBAN SYSTEM

URBSURBAN SYSTEM

We aim to achieve a . quality based rather than quantity based balanced equation of the Physical, Digital and Social Connec-tivity by the citizen and user's participation. Connectivity's final goal Connectivity's final goal means a merging process between sustainability, social cohesion and territory/economy development.

CYBERRELATIONAL SYSTEM

CYBERRELATIONAL SYSTEM

It is crucial to enable multi-cultural spaces and resour-ces for social entrepreneurs-hip in order to gain a rurban based citizenship.

Finally, in the equally developed 4 System's approach, we en-courage flexible and effi-cient institutional culture. Actually politic and admi-nistrative structures could be transformed by a majority of the citizenship, if they would agree any common new solution.

POLISSOCIO-POLITICAL

SYSTEM

POLISSOCIO-POLITAL

SYSTEM

urbs

cyber

civitas

polis

This is the Abstract of the Doctoral Thesis Investigation carried out over six years by Dr. Igor Calzada PhD, and it favours the opening of diverse fields for future re-search on matters such as the sociologi-cal, macro-economic, territorial, institu-tional, political, environmental, cyber-cultural and town-planning. This research is currently on-going, with the "Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking" project . (http://about.me/icalzada).

The methodology used by the author is qualitative research based on field stu-dies via interviews, urban exploration, stays at different European, Asian and American universities, as well as inter-views conducted with knowledgeable ex-perts on the present day Basque Country. It includes a detailed overview of the bi-bliography, the analysis of statistical data as well as comparison studies. Likewise, the following concepts addressed have been presented in different social spheres and forums. For example, at the recently held "Euskal Hiria 2012 City Region" Congress (http://www.euskalhiria.org and http://www.basquecity.org), in which the public sector (public adminis-tration staff, managers and politicians), the private sector (companies, directors and entrepreneurs), the academic world (universities and technology centres), civil society (social movements and ordinary citizens) and individuals (entrepreneurs/ activists) had the time and space to ex-press ideas, listen to one another and bring together their different ways of un-derstanding the present situation.

The backbone of this project attends to the description of four systems (URBS, CYBER, CIVITAS and POLIS) which clas-sify twelve independent factors. These describe the Future Implications that will define the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria.

Various factors and conditions exist in the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria, such as: urban density, the development of economic activity, the need of its inhabi-tants to travel for work or leisure reasons, academic and research training, the r-urbanisation process, environmental awareness, concerns about energy and self-sufficiency, the sovereignty of food production, the countryside, cultural identity, etc. These factors affirm that the direction taken by the present day Basque Country is one of advancement towards a self-configured The Basque City-RegionCity-Region or Euskal Hiria, with post-growth in macro and external (global) markets and resilience in micro and (local) internal ones. In summary, the City-Region concept is examined as re-gards its possible competitive effects, in-novation development, identity, sovereignty, claims to self-governance, etc., and then applied to the present day Basque Country.

The four systems that are explained in the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria are:

An approach is proposed that encompasses a diverse and changeable human geography, in which regional level and r-urbanisation become strategic challenges; the crea-tion of multi-disciplinary socially inte-ractive spaces with a confluence of tasks, and an interior and exterior struc-ture in relation to physical, social and digital connectivity, both on a macro scale (territorial) and micro scale (regional level and micro-territories).Physical landmarks and infrastructure, which are designed to build coexisten-ce, well-being and quality of life for citizens and institutions, should be identi-fied and subjected to analysis in this system. For example: High-Speed Rail, Pasaia Port proyect, Door-to-door waste

collection vs. Incinerator, San Sebastian Metro, among many others. Changeable and dynamic projects which are coming together under a definition that must be grouped with and stem from accepted, efficient and truly sustainable territorial strategic planning. These factors are all setset against the backdrop of adaptability to climate change, peak-oil and deple-tion of fossil fuels, with solutions that stem from geoengineering.

An approach is proposed which encompasses physical connectivity via icons and infrastructu-res which give rise to regeneration on an urban/regional scale as well as produce a universal response with the exterior, thus avoiding internal confrontation (Guggenheim(Guggenheim and New Basque Rail Net-work). This would be digital connectivity that guarantees access to telematic net-works and resolves new social, territo-rial and generational inequality, and social connectivity that facilitate the re-configuration of gloKal communitiesCYBER is the expression of the level of URBS connectivity, which connected co-rrectly and efficiently is: Physical (economic and environmental cost and use), Digital (autonomy and empower-ment) and Social (Social Capital and co-

responsibility). In this section it would be necessary to make special mention of coexistence and peacemaking factors as one of the key points (in the overcoming phase).

An approach is proposed that encompasses multicultura-lism, which advocates integration and coexistence together with the design of "meeting zones", in favour of plans to acti-vate intercultural models and strategies, such as retention, the mobilisation and attraction of qualified talent or personnel, along with r-urban dynamics and the crea-tion of special districts. CIVITAS responds to citizens. We basically include the local variable along with those of diversity and creativity. To this end, we are interested in understanding the unequal make-up of the social archipelagos that arise. Also, the local strategies with those of the global andvice versa. Lastly, in the current post-crisis and post-growth age (2013), given that the new emerging economic model is pointing the way. All of which takes us to a reformu-lation of the Real Economy, and even im

pacts on the democratic (DEMOS) and poli-tical (POLIS) bases. And that is how we get to POLIS.

An approach is proposed that encompasses the presence of the term "Euskal" in the globalised world, reflecting the value of the Basque language and other attributes. The approach also in-cludes the term's use within the 2.0 Dias-pora on the Internet, the new breed of citizen participation with multi-level governan-ce in the EU sphere, and territorial regula-tion whose objective is public efficiency and improved service to citizens. Finally, as a consequence of the crisis concerning the territorial model of the Spanish State, along with recent events in Catalonia and Scotland, Euskal Hiria would also be in a si-tuation to analyse processes from a social innovation viewpoint, in which self-gover-nance, co-sovereignty, sovereignty or even independence are considered.

The development of the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria can position this society within the objectives of the new European territorial vision, favouring the path of configuring an advanced so-ciety in terms of reducing the differen-ces between the different regions of the European Union. This would occur via the common guidelines established for the conservation of natural resources and the protection of cultural and natu-ral heritage, thus favouring an economic exchange that overcomes the existing paradigm of competitiveness between different city-regions.

The Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria is configured in a physical environment where the terrain plays an important role. Natural factors determine the de-marcation of areas or regions, which con-vert them into natural systems set against the socio-territorial distribution established by current administrative and political boundaries. As such, the possibility exists of city planning based on sustainable criteria and dialogue with the natural environment, thus fa-vouring sustainable development from a local and bottom-up focus, and confronting problems on an urban scale, such as waste generation, atmospheric con-tamination, water shortages, deforesta-tion, the disappearance of the ozone layer, the extinction of wildlife and the destruction of heritage and countryside. Sustainable urban development is proposed as a process of local and gloKal de-velopment; of co-evolution of the urban, relational, socio-political cultural-eco-nomic systems.

Finally, in a short space of time and in the drafting of the Socio-Territorial Model premises of a city-region, it is worth mentioning the participation of all the agents involved from society via sui-table processes and good understan-ding. This would be necessary to confront the new phase of a post-growth and post-crisis global environment at local level, redesigning the processes in its four systems via Social Innovation. A prospective future stage for Euskal Herria (Greater Basque Country), the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria, constructedconstructed from today and with a pre-sent day analysis.

Heading towards a Basque City-Region? An approach from social innovation.

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONSSCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS CONTACT

+00 34 630.75.28.76. [Basque Country-SP]+00 44 7887.661925. [UK]

igor.calzada@insis.ox.ac.ukhttp://about.me/icalzadahttp://www,igorcalzada.comSkype: icalzadaTwitter: @icalzada

FUTURE OF CITY-REGIONS <FUTURE OF CITY-REGIONS <> COMPARATIVE TERRITORIAL BENCHMARKING> COMPARATIVE TERRITORIAL BENCHMARKING

FUTURE OF CITY-REGIONS <> COMPARATIVE TERRITORIAL BENCHMARKING

> 2012

Since 2012 it is being an extension of qualitative research and cases. (http://about.me/icalzada)fromfrom the Future of Cities Programme of the University of Oxford (UK) in co-llaboration with Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Sciences, which explo-res and compares different cases of City-Regions and it is being a bench-marking with the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria. Cases of City-Regions analyzed to date and included in the roadmap are:

Dublin,Portland,Catalunya,Manchester,Glasgow,Oresundand Randstad.

This comprise a larger project entit-led:

Future of the City-Regions <> Compared Territorial Benchmarking.

euskalhiria

catalunya

manchester

glasgow

randstad

oresund

Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.Scientific Director of Euskal Hiria 2012 City-Region Congresshttp://www.euskalhiria.org http://www.basquecity.org

PostDoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford Programme for the Future of the Cities University of Oxford [UK]. InSIS & COMPAS & Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science.

visit:http://www.cityregions.org