Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Urban Transformations ESRC & Future of Cities Programme, delivered a conference in the 7th Annual Smart Energy 2016 UK & EU Summit on 29th January 2016 in London. His talk entiltled: 'Comparing EU Cities on Smart City-Regional Governance'.

1. Comparing EU Ci-es
on Smart City-Regional Governance
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Senior Research Fellow, 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
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
7th Annual Smart Energy UK & Europe 2016
London (UK), January 29th 2016

2. Bio: entrepreneurial academic
1. 2012 < Future of CiIes, University of Oxford (UK)
2. 2016 < Urban TransformaIons, University of Oxford (UK)
3. 15 years: Policy Adviser, Applied Researcher & Lecturer (EU)
4. Private sector: InnovaIon Director at Mondragon Co-
operaIve CorporaIon (6th largest in Spain)
5. Public sector: InnovaIon Director at Regional Government
(Spain)
6. M.B.A. & PhD in Business AdministraIon (USA)

3. Ques-ons
• 1. Why should we unplug smart ciIes
beyond our hyper-connected socieIes?
• 2. Why to move from the future of ciIes to the urban
transformaIons paradigm?
• 3. How are BriIsh and European ciIes facing the smart
city challenge?
• 4. Some key projects from the UK (Urban TransformaIons
ESRC porbolio) and EU (H2020 lighthouse project).
• 5. Future challenge: the regional scale.
Towards Smart City-Regional Governance.

4. Outline
1. Unplugging the Smart City
2. Future of CiIes > Urban TransformaIons
3. UK & EU CiIes & Projects:
· Urban TransformaIons ESRC porbolio.
· H2020-SCC-EU 1st Lighthouse REPLICATE.
· Bristol, Glasgow, Barcelona and Bilbao.
4. Future challenge:
Smart City-Regional Governance

5. 1. Unplugging the Smart City
@perjovschi

6. Source: @oxmartinschool

7. Source: @UNHABITAT

8. 1960
Source: @UN

9. 2025
Source: @UN

10. Beyond Hyper Connected Socie-es >
Need to Deconstruct the Smart City

11. UNPLUGGING (precondiIons)
① Being digitally connected/#plugged is no
guarantee of being smart (Evans, 2002)
② Technology is never neutral (Williams, 1983)

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

13. By @TheAtlantic
To unplug the smart city approach?

14. #UNPLUGGING
through
10 TRANSITIONS
2. From the Future of CiIes
to the Urban TransformaIons

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16. 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.
Bodom 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
hjp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535#abstract
Also in Open Access via @ResearchGate:
hjps://www.researchgate.net/publicaIon/
289522452_AOM_Unplugging_DeconstrucIng_the_Smart_City

17. 2012-2015:
Future of Ci-es Programme
www.futureofciIes.ox.ac.uk

18. 2016 <
Urban Transforma-ons ESRC
www.urbantransforma-ons.ox.ac.uk
• From smart data to infrastructure,
• parIcipatory design to migraIon,
• the Urban TransformaIons projects share a mulIdisciplinary
focus
• and a forward-looking vision
• of how our urban future can be shaped
• to achieve bejer outcomes
• for communiIes, businesses and local authoriIes.
• Together, they establish a foundaIon of original research and
best pracIce in:
• the UK, Europe and internaIonally.

19. Urban Transforma-ons
ESRC porlolio (UK > EU)
What does Urban TransformaIons seek to achieve?
• The Urban TransformaIons programme aims to
address
• a wide range of stakeholders with a professional,
public or poliIcal interest in ciIes,
• including members of the general public
• wishing to learn more about current academic debates
• on urban development worldwide:
• UK
• EU
• InternaIonal (Global South – BRICS)
www.urbantransforma-ons.ox.ac.uk

20. 3. UK & EU
CiIes & Projects
EU Project
Cities involved
Timeframe & Title
Funding Institution
EU-H2020-SCC-
1st
Lighthouse:
REPLICATE
• Bristol (UK)
• St Sebastian (ES)
• Florence (IT)
• Laussane (CH)
• Essen (DE)
• Nilüfer (TR)
• Bogotá (CO)
• Guangzhou (CN)
< 2015-2020 >
REinassance of PLaces with Innovative
Citizenship And TEchnology
EU-H2020-SCC
EU-Marie Curie Actions-
Cofund-Regional
Programmes:
SMART CITY-REGIONS
• Bristol (UK)
• Glasgow (UK)
• Bilbao (ES)
• Barcelona (ES)
< 2015-2016 >
Comparing Smart City-Regional
Governance Strategies:
Bilbao, Barcelona, Bristol & Glasgow
EU-FP7
Marie Curie Actions- Cofund
BilbaoMetropoli-30/BizkaiaXede
EU-FP7-314679
STEP UP
Smart City Plan
Glasgow (UK)
Riga (LT)
Gothenburg (SE)
Ghent (BE)
< 2014-2015 >
Energy Planning for Cities
*MSc Master in Global Sustainable Cities
EU-FP7
www.stepupsmartcities.eu/
EU-FP7-314277-
STEEP
Smart City Plan
Bristol (UK)
St Sebastian (ES)
Florence (IT)
< 2014-2015 >
Systems Thinking for comprehensive city
Efficient Energy Planning
EU-FP7
http://www.smartsteep.eu/

21. 3. EU H2020
CiIes & Projects
Project Budget Lighthouse Ci-es
GROWSMARTER
Transforming ciIes
for a smart,
sustainable Europe
24.8M € Stockhom (SE)
Cologne (DE)
Barcelona (SP)
REMOURBAN
Model for
acceleraIng the
smart URBAN
transformaIon
21.5M € Valladolid (ES)
Noqngham (UK)
Tepebasi (TR)
TRIANGULUM
Demostrate-
Disseminate-
Replicate
25.4M € Manchester (UK)
Eindhoven (NL)
Stavanger (NO)
CITYKEYS 0.962M€

22. H2020-SCC-EU-1st Lighthouse
REPLICATE (UK + EU)

23. H2020-SCC-EU-1st Lighthouse
REPLICATE (UK + EU)

24. Bristol & Glasgow (UK)
Barcelona & Bilbao (ES)

25. GLASGOW
By Scoqsh CiIes Alliance

26. BRISTOL
By Bristol CC

27. BARCELONA
STRATEGIC LINES
INTERNATIONAL POSITIONING
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
SMART LOCAL PROGRAMMES
1. Telecommunica-ons
Networks
2. Urban Plalorm
3. Smart Data
4. Smart Ligh-ng
5. Energy Self-Sufficiency
6. Smart Water
7. Smart Mobility
8. Renaturalisa-on
9. Urban Transforma-on
10. Smart Urban Furniture
11. Urban Resilience
12. ci-zenry
13. Open Government
14. Barcelona in Your Pocket
15. Smart Waste Collec-on
16. Smart regula-on
17. Smart Innova-on
18. Healthcare and Social
Services
19. Educa-on
20. Smart Tourist Des-na-on
21. Infrastructure and Logis-cs
22. Leisure and Culture
1. BESOS
2. CitySDK
3. CloudOp-ng
4. Commons4EU
5. DC4Ci-es
6. EUNOIA
7. iCity
8. INSIGHT
9. Open-DAI
10. CONDUITS
11. FIREBALL
12. Green eMo-on
13. MOLECULES
14. smartCEM
15. SUPERHUB
16. TRANS-FORM
17. ECHORD++
18. Lighthouse
BARCELONA By BCN CC

28. BILBAO
By A.Aldekoa

29. 3. UK & EU
Cities & Projects
5
GENERAL
CONCLUSIONS

30. By @TheAtlantic
1
SMART CITY
No recipes

31. By @icalzada
2
No Replicable

32. Social
Entrepreneurs
By @icalzada
3
Multi-Stakeholders
Calzada, I. (2013), CriIcal Social InnovaIon in the Smart City era for a City-Regional European
Horizon 2020. Journal of Public Policies & Territory P3T. Vol 2, Nº 6 (2013): Social InnovaIon &
Territory. Winter. pp. 1-20.

33. By @LSECities By @bilbaometropoli
By @ifuturecities
By @CitiesOxford
4
Smart City
-to-
Smart City
Benchmarking

34. www.cityregions.org
5
Metropolitan
+
City-Regional

35. hjp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2015.1046908
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36. 10
Experience
+
Open Data
Calzada, I. (2015), Benchmarking Future City-Regions beyond NaIon-States, RSRS
Regional Studies Regional Science, 2:1, 350-361, DOI:
10.1080/21681376.2015.1046908.

37. From our daily experience as urban dwellers,
at the end of the day,
everything boils down to, how could we:
1. engage with the smart design of our ciIes?
2. generate, manage, protect and use data?
3. make visible what is invisible?
4. share infrastructure?
5. live our urban spaces?
4. Final Remarks:
Smart City-Regional Governance

38. Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Senior Research Fellow
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
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