| #4142509 in Books | 2016-02-09 | Original language:English | 9.75 x6.75 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 275 pages|||Those wishing to procure or promote a sports mega-event in the twenty-first century will unfailingly promise a beneficial legacy to the host city and its inhabitants. But will there be a legacy? And, if so, who will be its beneficiaries, and who will lose out?
Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development. In the wake of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) concerns about ’gigantism’ and wider public concerns about rising costs, it was imperative in the C21st to demonstrate the long term benefits that arose for the city and nations from hosting premier sporting even...
You easily download any file type for your device.Mega-event Cities: Urban Legacies of Global Sports Events (Design and the Built Environment) | Valerie Viehoff, Gavin Poynter. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
