SD Wolfe - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Many cities have abandoned plans for hosting the Olympics due to crises of high costs, unnecessary infrastructures, and a range of socio-spatial exclusions. These problems stem …
The improvement of well-being of residents is the core of the people-centred urbanization. Inhabitants' emphasis on healthy lifestyle draws attention to the provision of sports …
Despite growing public opposition, megaevents such as the Summer Olympics continue to proliferate both in the Global North and South, thus reshaping the built environment of cities …
A Mabin, P Harrison - Progress in Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
Capital cities form the focus of a sub-field in urban studies. Much of the literature concerning their planning concentrates on their histories, and on the core precincts in which these cities …
There is little research-based evidence regarding the similarities and differences in urban plans and urban forms, regarding urban planning and design, between planned capital …
SD Wolfe - Leisure Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mega-events like the Olympics and the Football World Cup routinely harm host cities and societies, largely due to their linkages with ambitious urban development agendas …
G Lopes dos Santos… - Journal of …, 2023 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Protests over sustainability concerns attached to hosting the Olympic Games have resulted in several bid withdrawals and a low number of candidate cities willing to host the most …
E Russo, AR Figueira… - Frontiers in Sports and …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Context This study was inspired by the considerable risks and diminishing enthusiasm among societies to invest in Olympic agendas, which traditionally involve billions of dollars …