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.
With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book presents innovative and multidimensional analyses of mega-events with an international selection of case studies. The work provides a grounded theorisation of mega-events in the first part and scrutinizes its practices and processes in the second. Each chapter explores mega-events as crucial drivers and accelerators of urban and citizenship transformations. Rather than just focusing on a staged momentum, this book takes stock of the ‘before’ and ‘after’ that these events imply for the urban condition.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in urban studies, human geography, economics, architecture, planning, sociology, political science. It will also appeal to professionals and policy makers engaged in the planning, hosting and management of mega-events.
"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"
Naomi C. Hanakata is Assistant Professor for Urban Planning at the National University of Singapore and co-founder of a research and planning practice in Singapore. Filippo Bignami is senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Department of Economics, Health and Social Sciences - LUCI (Labour, Urbanscape and CItizenship) research area. Niccolò Cuppini is lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) - LUCI (Labour, Urbanscape and CItizenship) research area.
