The advent of sustainability rhetoric has emerged as a defining element of the sports mega-
event vernacular. Vancouver, host of the self-declared 'first-ever sustainable Olympic …

This is a study of how prisons became a common sense solution to economic and social
decline in northern New York in the 1980s, about how prisons became synonymous with …

This thesis uses the 2018 World Cup in Russia to engage with the processes of neoliberal
restructuring and the conception of soft power. Based on a comparison of the host cities of …

The Olympics have long had the offi-cial motto 'Citius, Altius, Fortius', or 'Faster, Higher,
Stronger'. Technically referring to the athletes competing in the event, it is clear that such a …

TÉOROS, vol. 33, no 1, p. 3-7© 2014 années 70, par le biais de plusieurs écrits
fondamentaux. Ce sont tout d'abord Ritchie et Béliveau (1974) qui ont les premiers parlé de …

Planned running events, regardless of their scale, produce impacts. Those impacts are first
articulated in various policies and ambitions of event organisers and represent a form of …

The hosting of a mega event creates enormous demand for new buildings and facilities and
requires the development of new urban areas and infrastructure. Therefore, it needs …

This chapter reviews recent urban studies and urban affairs scholarship on three major
event-led development models: mega-events as a temporary catalyst for long-term …

This chapter examines policy choices by taking a closer look at the questions raised by
opponents of the Olympics. Opposition groups in American cities offer two critiques of …

This chapter examines how political strategies and policy knowledge travel across cities
bidding for the Olympics. It introduces urban studies scholarship on “policy mobilities” …