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Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces

Expos and Urban Agendas

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Authors:
  1. Stefano Di Vita

    1. Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  2. Corinna Morandi

    1. Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  • Offers an innovative and interdisciplinary study of contemporary World Fairs
  • Sheds new light on the under studied area of mega-events in metropolitan contexts
  • Provides a timely examination of the increasingly conflicted urban events of which World’s fairs are one.

Part of the book series: Mega Event Planning (MEGAEP)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Mega-Events and Legacies: A Tradition of Studies

    • Stefano Di Vita
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Spatial Projects of the Expo 2015 and the Post-Event: The Relationship with Milan’s Urban Change Before, During, and After the Crisis

    • Corinna Morandi
    Pages 15-37

  4. The Planning and Governance of the Expo 2015 and the Post-Event: The Growth of a New Awareness—Overcoming the State of Exception

    • Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi
    Pages 39-63

  5. From the Post-Expo 2015 to an Urban Agenda for Milan

    • Corinna Morandi
    Pages 65-78

  6. World’s Fairs and Processes of Urban Change: New City-Regional Nodes and Networks

    • Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi
    Pages 79-113

  7. Towards a Post-crisis Urban Agenda: Learning from Mega-Events

    • Stefano Di Vita
    Pages 115-135

  8. Mega-Events and Urban Studies: Which Mutual Effects?

    • Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi
    Pages 137-145

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 147-152
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About this book

This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zaragoza 2008 and Shanghai 2010, were to demonstrate the contribution of the 2015 World’s Fair to the urban innovation process and to the debate surrounding a new urban agenda; as well as to examine empirically and theoretically the international discussion regarding the growth of regional and macro-regional scales of contemporary cities in order to offer suggestions for future urban agendas through mega-events.  This book will be of great value to students, researchers and policy makers in the area of urban planning and the urban studies more broadly, geography and spatial politics. 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi

About the authors

Stefano Di Vita, Architect and PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning, is research fellow and adjunct professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Politecnico di Milano, in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. 


Corinna Morandi is Full Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, where she is also member of the Professor Board of the International PhD in Spatial Planning and Urban Development.





Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces

  • Book Subtitle: Expos and Urban Agendas

  • Authors: Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi

  • Series Title: Mega Event Planning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67768-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67767-5Published: 14 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88485-1Published: 01 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67768-2Published: 29 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5859

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5867

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 152

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urbanism

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