Overview
- Discusses the often overlooked effects on cities that lose Olympic bids
- Adds an innovative perspective to the growing debate on mega-events and their significance locally and globally
- Engages with the reasons and processes behind Olympic bidding
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Mega Event Planning (MEGAEP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Failed Olympic bids
- Urban space
- Transformation of Urban Space
- Urban Planning
- Urban Economics
- Olympic bids
- legacy planning
- Olympic Agenda 2020
- Olympic candidature process
- event-led development
- urban governance
- networked entrepreneurialism
- entrepreneurial city
- development logic in cities
- neoliberal reordering
- multi-scalar collaboration
- politics of contingency
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Robert Oliver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech, USA. His research examines the intersections of public space, symbolism, and entrepreneurial urbanism, with a particular emphasis on how various claims to urban space are rendered visible during mega-event planning and hosting processes.
John Lauermann is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Medgar Evers College in the City University of New York, USA. His research examines urban political economy, mega-events and mega-projects, and urban sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space
Book Subtitle: Lasting Legacies?
Authors: Robert Oliver, John Lauermann
Series Title: Mega Event Planning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59823-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Limited 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59822-6Published: 02 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59823-3Published: 15 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2633-5859
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5867
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 156
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Economics, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Tourism Management