Events in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Events in the City write by Andrew Smith. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Events in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cities are staging more events than ever. Within this macro-trend, there is another less acknowledged trend: more events are being staged in public spaces. Some events have always been staged in parks, streets and squares, but in recent years events have been taken out of traditional venues and staged in prominent urban spaces. This is favoured by organisers seeking more memorable and more spectacular events, but also by authorities who want to animate urban space and make it more visible. This book explains these trends and outlines the implications for public spaces. Events play a positive role in our cities, but turning public spaces into venues is often controversial. Events can denigrate as well as animate city space; they are part of the commercialisation, privatisation and securitisation of public space noted by commentators in recent years. The book focuses on examples from London in particular, but it also covers a range of other cities from the developed world. Events at different scales are addressed and, there is dedicated coverage of sports events and cultural events. This topical and timely volume provides valuable material for higher level students, researchers and academics from events studies, urban studies and development studies.
Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives
Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives write by Carlos Vainer. This book was released on . Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, mega-events as Olympics, international exhibitions and especially the World Cup have put into action all kinds of capitals, reconfigured territorial scales of power and produced a discourse about competitiveness, urbanism and global cities that proclaims convergence between public and private interests.
Mega-Events, City and Power
Mega-Events, City and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-Events, City and Power write by Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira. This book was released on 2020-10-21. Mega-Events, City and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. It adopts Bourdieu's concept of field to explore the interests and disputes involved in the production of sports mega-events across different times and spaces and the role of host cities in these processes. It aims to identify the bases that give these spectacles the power to produce disruptions in the social fabric of the host cities and countries, and to enable the production of authoritarian forms of exercising power. By observing the historical constitution of the field of production of sport spectacle as an autonomous field, this book explores how sport mega-events create both an arena and a context for radical expressions of authoritarianism of neoliberal planning models. It will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals in architecture and urban studies, urban planning, municipal governance, sport and leisure studies, and those interested in the relationship between State and capital in the production of urban space.
It Happened in New York City
It Happened in New York City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It Happened in New York City write by Fran Capo. This book was released on 2010-01-06. It Happened in New York City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Gotham, It Happened in New York City describes everything from the installation of the Statue of Liberty to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, from the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11 to the construction of the new Yankee stadium, slated to open in 2009.
Events in the City
Events in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Events in the City write by Andrew Smith. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Events in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cities are staging more events than ever. Within this macro-trend, there is another less acknowledged trend: more events are being staged in public spaces. Some events have always been staged in parks, streets and squares, but in recent years events have been taken out of traditional venues and staged in prominent urban spaces. This is favoured by organisers seeking more memorable and more spectacular events, but also by authorities who want to animate urban space and make it more visible. This book explains these trends and outlines the implications for public spaces. Events play a positive role in our cities, but turning public spaces into venues is often controversial. Events can denigrate as well as animate city space; they are part of the commercialisation, privatisation and securitisation of public space noted by commentators in recent years. The book focuses on examples from London in particular, but it also covers a range of other cities from the developed world. Events at different scales are addressed and, there is dedicated coverage of sports events and cultural events. This topical and timely volume provides valuable material for higher level students, researchers and academics from events studies, urban studies and development studies.
