Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-59822-6 (ISBN)
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from one bid project to the next. As Olympic bids become more deeply embedded in urban development and bid teams engage in legacy planning, Oliver and Lauermann demonstrate that bid failure is rarely definitive and is often a desirable result. This volume adds a new and innovative perspective to Olympic Studies and mega-events more broadly, with appeal to a variety of other disciplines including geography, urban planning, spatial politics and sport and civic policy.
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.
Chapter 1. Why Bid? The Logic of Pursuing Sports Mega-Events.- Chapter 2. Bidding and Urban Development.- Chapter 3. Policy Mobilities and the Bid.- Chapter 4. Planning Across Bids.- Chapter 5. Post-bid Legacies?.- Chapter 6. Post-bid Rescaling.- Chapter 7. Anti-bid Politics.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Rethinking the Horizons of Failed Bids.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.10.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Mega Event Planning |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Schlagworte | development logic in cities • entrepreneurial city • event-led development • Failed Olympic bids • legacy planning • multi-scalar collaboration • neoliberal reordering • networked entrepreneurialism • Olympic Agenda 2020 • Olympic bids • Olympic candidature process • politics of contingency • Transformation of Urban Space • Urban Economics • Urban governance • urban planning • Urban space |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-59822-0 / 1137598220 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-59822-6 / 9781137598226 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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