Usually, sports venues become white elephants, and their neighborhoods islands of placelessness (Relph 1976): underutilized and abandoned pieces of the city. This trend is even stronger when looking on how sports facilities and their surroundings are utilized after the event is over. In particular, past experiences show that outcomes from staging major events are mostly harmful, and their legacies planned to last only a short time. Mega-events have driven the urban transformation of cities such as Barcelona, London, Rio, Beijing, and Shanghai, but while the prospect of economic growth is the driving force for hosting a major event, the legacies that follow their hosting have been difficult to design and quantify (Preuss 2007). Mega-events, from the Olympics to the World Cups, are often regarded by planners and politicians as key drivers for the overall redevelopment of a city (Azzali 2017 Malfas et al.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |