Download PDF by Valerie Viehoff,Gavin Poynter: Mega-event Cities: Urban Legacies of Global Sports Events

Mega-events symbolize a huge second within the lifetime of a urban, delivering an invaluable lens in which we may possibly examine their cultural, social, political and financial improvement. within the wake of the overseas Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) matters approximately ’gigantism’ and wider public issues approximately emerging charges, it used to be principal within the C21st to illustrate the longer term advantages that arose for the town and international locations from internet hosting finest sporting activities. ’London 2012’ used to be the 1st to combine the idea that of legacy from the instant a bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic video games used to be being thought of. London proposed an bold programme of city renewal for East London. next host urban bids have followed the ’legacy narrative’ and, as this booklet demonstrates, aligned this to significant schemes of city improvement and renewal. Bringing jointly students, practitioners and coverage makers, this e-book focuses upon the legacies sought by way of towns that host significant activities occasions. It analyses how governments, the IOC and others outline and degree ’legacy’. It additionally focuses upon the demanding situations and possibilities dealing with destiny host towns of mega-events, their aspirations and the meant impression upon their family and overseas improvement. It questions what the worldwide shift in geographical place of mega-events capability for activities improvement and the company of game, what the points of interest are for towns trying to harness the internet hosting of a mega-event, and even if there is long run effects for the bidding and webhosting significant sporting activities within the wake of the frequent social unrest that observed the arrangements in Brazil for internet hosting the FIFA international Cup (2014) and the summer time Olympics (2016) and in Turkey, the place there has been major competition to bid for the 2020 summer season Olympiad.