Overview
- Includes contributions from leading Brazilian scholars in Urban and Regional Studies, Architecture and Planning
- Offers a timely contribution to a growing critical literature on sports mega events
- Addresses political, social and economic issues which arise from the hosting of a mega-event
Part of the book series: Mega Event Planning (MEGAEP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
It further provides detailed empirical evidence that highlights a growing trend in sporting mega events: the overestimation of benefits and an underestimation of costs involved in hosting. The book adds to the critical literature that provides a counterweight to governments' aspirations to use mega events for the purposes of development and/or globalization, irrespective of the views of their citizens.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sports Mega-Events and Urban Legacies
Book Subtitle: The 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazil
Editors: Eduardo Alberto Cusce Nobre
Series Title: Mega Event Planning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44012-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44011-8Published: 05 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82960-9Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44012-5Published: 23 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2633-5859
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5867
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 163
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Regional Development