Mega Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis for an Epistemological Foresight

ISBN-13: 9780367625641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Filippo Bignami; Niccolò Cuppini; Naomi Hanakata

Opis

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally. It takes mega-events as an instance to analyse urban transformations and their effects on citizenship.

Spis treści

Foreword: Mega-Events and Social Citizenship  Introduction: "Mega-events as a logic: urban transformation and extended understanding of citizenship"  Part I Theorizing mega-events on the ground  1 What makes an event a mega-event? Definitions and sizes  2 Flows, circulations, accumulations: Theorizing mega events  3 Mega-events and impact on social citizenship  4 A critical review of urban mega interventions as trendsetters of urban development practice  5 The evolution of Olympic Games governance  Part II Mega-events’ practices and processes  6 Mega-events and other disasters: Some evidence from Italy  7 Impact and legacy of mega-events: The Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires: The case of comuna 8  8 The legacies of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia: Three facets of mega-events’ biopolitics  9 Urban impacts of second-tier mega-events in the Global East: The European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi and Baku  10 The COP22 in the city of Marrakech: A catalyst for sustainable urban transformation?  11 Time, democracy, social and environmental justice in the urban fabrication of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: What the mobilization of the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis reveals  12 From Tokyo 1964 to Tokyo 2020: Urban citizenship, social transformation, and recovery  13 The legacy of the politics of mega-events in Rio de Janeiro: The right to the city and the struggles over urban citizenship  14 "Built to host"? Built for whom? The LA2028 Olympics and urban exclusions  15 Mega-events as game changers for sustainable transitions and urban citizenship development: Beijing from 2008 to 2022