Mega events : place-making, regeneration and city-regional development / Edited by Graeme Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Graeme, editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hosting of sporting events--Social aspects.

Hosting of sporting events.

Sports tournaments--Social aspects.

Sports tournaments.

Exhibitions--Social aspects.

Exhibitions.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 171 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Contents:

Introduction / Graeme Evans

Pestilence, toxicity and all the fun of the fair: brownfield sites, mega-events and areal regeneration, 1939-2012 / John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold

From Albertopolis to Olympicopolis: back to the future? / Graeme Evans

A World Fair for the future: revisiting the legacy of the Expo '98 urban model / Patricia Aelbrecht

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

Fighting Faust: resisting exclusion in Rio de Janeiro's pre-Olympic urban image-construction programme / Anne-Marie Broudehoux

A new road and rail link from the mountains to the coast: the mixed legacy of Sochi's most expensive project / Sven Daniel Wolfe

Bidding trepidation: Stockholm's uncertain relationship with the Olympic Games / Erik Olson, Robert Oliver and Luke Juran

What Hamburg's HafenCity can learn from the Olympic Games / Mathias Kuhlmann

A 'host of priorities': Toronto's pursuit of urban waterfront development through Olympic bidding / Robert Oliver.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

1138608289

9781138608283

OCLC:

1119535719