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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Mega-Events"”.
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Olympic Challenge: Designing Equity into Mega-Events
… challenges to the host municipality. Studies of mega-events like the Olympics Games cite place-based challenges such as displacement, gentrification, environmental damage, and lost opportunities to advance equitable development that outlasts the Olympics’ duration. One driver of these place-based …
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Mega-events, community stakeholders and legacy: London 2012.
… impacts are potentially the greatest within mega-event planning. The aim of this research is to develop a framework of urban regeneration legacy associated with the hosting of mega-events where the local community are key stakeholders, and where they can gain long-term positive social …
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Life after mega-events : strategically reusing legacy parks
… has scrutinized the mixed legacy of staging "mega-events" such as World's Fairs (or Expos) and Olympic Games. Host cities regularly invest billions of dollars building the facilities and supporting infrastructure needed to accommodate millions of visitors over a fixed period of time. In doing …
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Transportation planning for mega events : a model of urban change
… years. Prime examples for such opportunities are mega events. Based on my hypothesis that mega event owners exercise a decisive influence on urban and transport planning through the requirements they impose on cities, the challenge inherent to leveraging the mega event opportunity is the alignment …
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Mythmaking, Mega-events, and Coercion: Autocratic Legitimation in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
… and spectacles. Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan host mega-events to increase their international recognition, exercising a balancing act between inherent political vulnerability and stability. Mega-events satisfy elite ambitions to reinvent and promote national identity under increased media exposure. …
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Mega-events in Kyrgyzstan (1991-2017): Power legitimacy and Unintended/Indirect Nation-building
… largely relied on state-sponsored invented mega-events or performative projects which celebrate historical commemorative dates and/or mark the national culture. Namely, I look into the following mega-events: Osh City’s 3000-year anniversary in 2000, Kyrgyzstan’s 2200-year anniversary in …
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Protest literacies : texts and practices contesting military policing and mega-events in Rio de Janeiro
… social movement responses to so-called ‘mega-events’ due to be hosted there – e.g. the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Central to contentions were newly implemented policing and housing policies associated with preparations for these mega-events: firstly installation of …
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The afterlife of megastructures in the aftermath of mega-events: the case of Cape Town Stadium
… infrastructure. However, because the mentioned events are hosted in a different location each time they take place, the stadia they leave behind often face uncertain futures, as the events and capacity for which they are originally designed are difficult to maintain following the spectacle. The …
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New architectures of governance : transnational private actors, enrolment strategies and the security governance of sports mega events
… has become one of the most sought after sports mega events by many countries in today’s society, as well as one of the most controversial. As I put the finishing touches on this thesis, the FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil. As with previous World Cups, the planning stage of the 2014 …
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Pairing mega events and hydrological systems for urban sustainability : strategy framework for Delhi beyond the Commonwealth Games 2010
(cont.) initiate a process by which the city learns to seize opportunities through benign and sustainable change. Furthermore, this thesis intends to inform decision makers with a checklist of crucial tradeoffs, risks and benefits involved in incorporating water systems as a strategy framework. …
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The Impacts of Mega-events held at Satellite Venues - case study of Weymouth & Portland, possible Olympic sailing venue in 2012
The mega-event industry is growing internationally with a diverse portfolio ranging from the “Spectacle Par Excellence” of the Olympic games through to cultural celebrations and historical anniversaries. To gain long-term benefits from the hosting of mega-events, it is imperative to plan …
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Fostering community support for mega events: a narrative inquiry of stories and experiences in the context of Cape Town, South Africa.
… understand and interpret community support for mega events in Cape Town, South Africa. Mega events have become popular because of their universal appeal, grandiose nature and capacity to engender lasting legacies that offer the host community an opportunity to unite in celebration, generate …
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The Strategic contribution of sport mega-events to national branding: the case of South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
… tourism, social and political sciences. Sport mega- events have previously been associated with some degree of brand-related benefits for the host nation. However, there have been no studies that have clearly revealed these opportunities or investigated their impact on the development of …
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Sporting mega-events and their influence on the social and physical capital of communities in the host city: The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games experience
… has been increasing research on how sporting mega-events such as the Olympic and Commonwealth Games are developing strategies, norms, and rules (institutions) to govern how these events impact the host nation, city, and communities; and on how mega-events impact the host’s economic, social, …
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The intended and actual impacts of mega-events : an international comparative study on mega-event hosting and a speculative review of South Africa's preparations for the 2010 Football World Cup
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-232).
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The Road to Rio: Infrastructure, Image, and New Media
… in the midst of extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. Central to the preparation and hosting of such mega-events are the issues of infrastructure and image. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential (and dilemmas) of utilizing …
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Exceptional tunings: controlling urban events
… in the extraordinary spatio-temporal context of mega events. The work is premised on the elaboration of an original spatial ontology through the notions of life, materiality and event, which culminates with the introduction of the notion of atmosphere and rhythm, and their folding into the …
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a City and Nation Branding Tool: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Image of International Opinion Leaders
… and marketing theory, the study explores how mega-events contribute to the construction of national identity and global image. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research combines qualitative interviews with 16 international diplomats in Beijing and an online survey of 40 foreign journalists …
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MEGA-Event Stadiums as vehicles for urban transformation : an argument for integration
… across the world engage in significant public events whether religious, traditional or competitive. Many of these celebrations, small or large, are central to their communities and cultures, bringing people together on common grounds. Events of this nature have had a long history of …
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