Marijke Taksa*, Laurence Chalipb and B. Christine Greenb aDepartment of Kinesiology,
University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada; bDepartment of Recreation, Sport & Tourism …

In an era of intense “entrepreneurial” city marketing, overt attempts to court LGBT consumers
and investors have been made not solely through the promotion of lesbian and gay arts …

In the past decade mega-events have entered a new phase of global reach, as post-socialist
countries in Eurasia, from Poland to Russia, have or will become host to some of the largest …

Research question: This paper examines event leveraging for public health benefits with the
outcome of increasing physical activity participation. While event leveraging provides the …

In this chapter, I use the concept of creative destruction to theorize the ways in which the
planning and staging of mega-events reflect geographically uneven and politically volatile …

Inspirational representations of athletic disability are ubiquitous in contemporary Western
culture, and are often considered uplifting for disabled and non-disabled audiences alike …

The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai provided a unique opportunity to examine emerging
visions of utopian urbanism in the Global South, and the contradictions contained within …

The trigger for this chapter was a small article by Grant (2010) on experiential planning
based on a series of interviews with a well-known urban planner, Larry Beasley, from …

This dissertation consists of a critical examination of the City of Vancouver's urban policies
during a significant era of urban governance: the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympic and …

Developed by Hindson, Gidlow, and Peebles (1994), the trickle-down effect and more
specifically, the demonstration effect, are based on the idea that performances of a host …