Events and Urban Regeneration

The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-58148-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising from new venues, these events are viewed as a way of stimulating investment, gaining civic engagement and publicizing progress to assist the urban regeneration process more generally. However, the pursuit of regeneration involving events is a practice that is poorly understood, controversial and risky.

Events and Urban Regeneration is the first book dedicated to the use of events in regeneration. It explores the relationship between events and regeneration by analyzing a range of cities and a range of sporting and cultural events projects. It considers various theoretical perspectives to provide insight into why major events are important to contemporary cites. It examines the different ways that events can assist regeneration, as well as problems and issues associated with this unconventional form of public policy. It identifies key issues faced by those tasked with using events to assist regeneration and suggests how practices could be improved in the future.

The book adopts a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing together ideas from the geography, urban planning and tourism literatures, as well as from the emerging events and regeneration fields. It illustrates arguments with a range of international case studies placed within and at the end of chapters to show positive outcomes that have been achieved and examples of high profile failures.

This timely book is essential reading for students and practitioners who are interested in events, urban planning, urban geography and tourism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikveranstaltungen und -organisationen, Aufführungspraxis
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Eventmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sportveranstaltungen, Sportmanagement, Teams & Clubs
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Ökonomie, Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An Introduction to Events and Urban Regeneration 2. Towards a Theoretical and Critical Understanding of Event Regeneration 3. The Evolution of Event Regeneration Strategies 4. Event Venues and Urban Regeneration 5. Events and the Parallel Physical Regeneration of Cities 6. Events and Social Regeneration: From Social Impacts to Social Leverage 7. Events and New Directions for Post-Industrial Cities 8. Events and Tourism Development in Post-Industrial Cities 9. Delivering Event Regeneration 10. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Andrew Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster.