To engage in a meaningful critique of international football tournaments (or, soccer games
as some disbelievers say) it seems to me that I need to embed its main shareholder, the …

This project examines the urban development impacts of bidding to host Olympic Games.
While there is a well-developed scholarship on legacy in Olympic host cities, less is known …

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-
scale sporting events. It uncovers the financing of the Games, reviewing existing studies to …

This chapter makes three specific points joining current discussions on urbanization in the
global urban age. First, we discuss the traditions in sociological writings on urbanization in …

В статье рассматриваются практики изъятия собственности в Сочи в сравнительной
перспективе с другими олимпийскими столицами. В ходе сравнительного анализа …

Dieser Beitrag rekonstruiert die Entwicklung der Regulierung des Städtetourismus in
Barcelona, einer der am stärksten unter dem Einfluss des Tourismus stehenden Metropolen …

Advocates of sustainable urban development often privilege the region as a scale for
coordinated action and investment. However, discourses of sustainability institutionalised …

Rio2016: Mega-Event Urban Planning and Imagining the Anti-Olympics Scale-Shift Process
Page 1 Please do not remove this page Rio2016: Mega-Event Urban Planning and …

This is the first book to critically examine the relationship between running events in local,
national, and international welfare policy, their marketing and management, and the …

Since the end of the 2012 Olympic Games, London's residents and tourists have been
awaiting the spectacular redevelopment of the former Olympic venue into the Queen …