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The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research. Featuring many of the top international names in the field, the handbook is divided into nine key sections: SECTION 1: THE GLOBALIZED CITY SECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE SECTION 4: SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITY SECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES SECTION 6: CREATIVE CITIES SECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES SECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY SECTION 9: URBAN FUTURES This is a central resource for researchers and students of Sociology, Cultural Geography, and Urban Studies.
Mega-Events in Emerging Nations and the Festivalization of the Urban Backstage: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa
Mega-Events in Emerging Nations and the Festivalization of the Urban Backstage: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa
THE INTERNATIONAL CLASS OF MEGA-EVENT HOSTING
The trend of hosting mega-events in ‘emerging nations', that is, in non-western countries, seems prevalent – the summer Olympics in Beijing 2008, the football World Cup in South Africa 2010 and in Brazil in 2014, the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 are the prominent examples. The designated next hosts for the football World Cups in 2018 and 2022 are Russia and Qatar, respectively. Similar to other developments, this can be related to a dissolution of the long-standing hegemonic dominance ...
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