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
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