Wrocław European Capital of Culture 2016, with its 'Spaces for Beauty'slogan, serves to
show that cumulating financial resources and human effort to produce a large number of …

Liverpool hosted the European Capital of Cultural (ECoC) in 2008, four years after the city
was granted UNESCO World Heritage Site status. A decade later the city council celebrated …

The article observes the case of the Expo 2015 by focusing on side cultural events and
heritage. By critically drawing on mega-event and smaller event literature, it is argued that …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential transfer of a metamodel for
heritage-based urban development (HBUD) in a postcrisis urban recovery scenario …

While the impacts of cultural mega-events on a city's projected image have been extensively
explored, less attention has been devoted to their role in relation to territorial stigmatization …

Urban governance and participatory planning have been key concepts in the academic
discourse, policy debates and international practice related to spatial planning, urban …

For decades, a mega-event strategy to urban development has been popular with
developers and politicians as a way to deliver fast results that can help to regenerate areas …

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and
urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes …

The future of mega-events has never been more uncertain. The ongoing COVID-19
pandemic has introduced an unparalleled level of doubt regarding the kind of mega-events …

Culture-led regeneration, understood as a range of policies using cultural activity as a
catalyst for urban regeneration, has been widely implemented by many European cities. The …