Mega-Events (eBook, PDF)

Placemaking, Regeneration and City-Regional Development
Redaktion: Evans, Graeme

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together different perspectives of mega-event bidding and hosting and the legacies they produce over time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429882104
• Artikelnr.: 58397917

Autorenporträt

Graeme Evans is Professor of Creative & Cultural Economy, University of the Arts London. He is a widely published expert on creative cities and the phenomenon of mega-events and regeneration, and advises cultural agencies on cultural planning, creative industries, and mega-event impacts and strategies

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1. Introduction (Graeme Evans) Part I:
Mega-Events: Place-Making, Regeneration and Legacy; 2. Pestilence, toxicity
and all the fun of the fair: brownfield sites, mega-events and area
regeneration, 1939-2012 (John Gold & Maggie Gold); 3. From Albertopolis to
Olympicopolis: Back to the Future? (Graeme Evans); 4. A World Fair for the
Future: Revisiting the Legacy of the Expo 98 Urban Model (Patricia
Aelbrecht); 5. The regional scale of contemporary mega-events. The Milan
Expo 2015, the post-event, and the challenges for public policies and
spatial planning (Stefano Di Vita); 6. Pimping the Faustian city:
Mega-events and urban image construction in Rio de Janeiro (Anne-Marie
Broudehoux); 7. A new road and rail link from the mountains to the coast:
the mixed legacy of Sochi Olympic's most expensive project (Sven Daniel
Wolfe); Part II: Alternative Mega-Events strategies: critiques and
responses to failed/serial bids; 8. Bidding trepidation: Stockholm's
uncertain relationship with the Olympic Games (Eric Olson, Robert Oliver
and Luke Juran); 9. What HafenCity Hamburg can learn from the Olympics
(Mathias Kuhlmann); 10. Toronto: A Tale of Many Mega-Event Bids (Robert
Oliver); Glossary/Index