Indeed, the legacy of a megaevent is very tangible. Often the attraction of events is linked to a reimaging process and in the case of many cities, is invariably linked to strategies of urban regeneration and tourism. Events and the parallel physical regeneration of cities 6. The urban redevelopment refers to destructing the existing buildings and. Impact on a host greek city efi dimopoulou national technical university of athens, greece international workshop on spatial information for sustainable management of urban areas fig commission 3 workshop 2009 mainz, germany, 2 4 february 2009. Barcelona model, megaevents and evictions, urban marketing. An introduction to events and urban regeneration 2.
Impact on a host greek city efi dimopoulou national technical university of athens, greece international workshop on spatial information for sustainable management of urban areas fig commission. Towards a theoretical and critical understanding of event regeneration 3. Similar to other metropolitan cities, hong kong has been besetting with daunting challenges of urban decay and ageing buildings. In urban regeneration for megaevents, boosterism refers to the exaggerated optimism in extolling the benefits of hosting a megaevent. Shanghai manual a guide for sustainable urban development in the 21st. The main urban renewal strategies can be exemplified as urban revitalization, urban redevelopment, urban rehabilitation and urban regeneration. Cities used to compete to be monumental now they compete to be eventful. Megaevents as a strategy for urban regeneration request pdf. Cultural development strategies and urban revitalization.
An analysis of the socioeconomic impact of inner city. The strategies for an urban regeneration why an urban manifesto for cities. The urban renewal projects are put into practice in various ways. Urban renewal and regeneration is not a new concept in the urban planning and development of metropolis. A comprehensive strategy, 41st isocarp congress 2005 5 urban regeneration urban regeneration can be described as, a comprehensive and integrated vision and action which leads to the resolution of urban problems and which seeks to bring about a lasting improvement in the economic, physical. Request pdf on jan 1, 2007, stephen john essex and others published mega events as a strategy for urban regeneration find, read and cite all the. Urban regeneration, megaevents and city marketing and branding ulke evrim uysal department of social research academic dissertation to be presented, with the permission of the faculty of social sciences of the university of helsinki, for public examination in lecture room 8, university main building.
Entrepreneurial strategies, creative class strategies, and progressive strategies. An urban planning theory of megaevents cogitatio press. A common issue is establishing a budget that incorporates the costs of event organisation, infrastructure. The case of penang, malaysia putting policy into practice 11 april 2012. Obviously, the strategic planning model and applied urban regeneration in.
To explain how a megaevent can be a catalyst of urban transformation, we can. Pdf olympics and other megaevents as a tool for urban. Because urban renewal projects that have been applied in various urban areas. Under this strategy, urban renewal is not a slash and burn process. In light of this, lorens 2008 shares insight on how urban regeneration is viewed as a contemporary strategy of urban development. This case study has relied to a great extent on information and materials provided by a range. Or, the internationalization of capital can enhance the megaevent as a form of.
Urban regeneration a manifesto for transforming uk cities in the age of climate change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text towards an urban renaissance. Projectbased urban renewal and transformation of urban. The complexity of achieving sustainable urban renewal is. Game on megaevent infrastructure opportunities at a glance the quality of a regions infrastructure denotes.
Each strategy type is based on a normative set of characteristics including strategy goals, the. Regeneration, city rebranding and changing urban agendas john r. Gold2 1school of social sciences and law, oxford brookes university 2london metropolitan business school, london metropolitan university abstract winning the right to host the olympic games is widely regarded as the most. Successful urban regeneration will be the result of a collective vision, realised through creative and enduring relationships between the community, government, university, developers and professionals involved in its design, delivery, governance and maintenance. Legacy planning the term legacy planning in relation to megasporting events refers to planning for deriving the. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours. They have turned into a valuable tool for multilayered processes of urban transformation and regeneration 10,11. Challenges, opportunities and a new development model putting policy into practice. Monclus 2006 associated urban strategies with from the. Eduardo alberto cuce nobre dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the master of arts degree in urban design oxford, december 1994.
Hosting megaevents can not only catalyse urban development, but also lead to an improvement of local planning systems and building planning capacity. Geci karurisebina, deenishnee naidoo, lee rosenzweig and irene sinovich from the national treasury, and phumlani mbulawa from sa cities network. The late 1990s approach concentrated on the development of strategies, joinedup action improving governance and the institutional arrangements for urban regeneration couch et al. Processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Olympics and other megaevents as a tool for urban development. The city constructed ring roads that eased longterm traf.
Their impact is considered through an international range of megaevents in terms of land use, political and socioeconomic change, and the placemaking processes that accompany these areabased regeneration projects. This book brings together different perspectives of megaevent bidding, hosting and legacies. They reflect on five years of intensive urban regeneration, evaluate the. Many factors affect the methods used for financing urban regeneration. It is a visionary document that sets out the key proposals which are aimed at making a dramatic change to the towns physical environment, economy, quality of. The manual aims at assisting future host cities of megaevents in developing countries in using these events as. Within this context, this research aims at identifying strategies for. Megaevent strategy as a tool of urban transformation coris.
Megaevents as a strategy for urban regeneration 2012. An analysis of the objectives and legitimations of the cape town 2004 olympic bid. Megaevents, urban boosterism and growth strategies. Urban renewal is most often undertaken to make life safe, more secure and comfortable to the urban dwellers, to attract wealthier individuals to live in that area or to boost economic base or activities in that area. Joint centre for urban design towards a better approach to urban regeneration.
Khalil department of architecture, faculty of engineering, cairo university, egypt. Request pdf on jan 1, 2007, stephen john essex and others published megaevents as a strategy for urban regeneration find, read and cite all the. Urban regeneration as a strategy for city clearance of declined inner cities gives rise to the betterment of economically and physically sustained urban areas. Given planning approval powers over and above the local authority. The paper argues that the search for explanation should guide megaevent research. Largescale events and sustainable urban regeneration. Pursuant to that section of the ordinance, the secretary for planning and lands has prepared a draft urban renewal strategy for public comments. Section 20 of the urban renewal authority ordinance chapter 563 requires the secretary for planning and lands to consult the public before finalizing the urban renewal strategy. Some industrial cities that were old, grey and grim based their regeneration on the. Typically, therefore, cities deploy a combination of internal and external funding sources, policy and regulatory tools, and strategic partnerships with the private sector, among other strategies for financing their urban regeneration vision. World cities urban regeneration case studies by rob. The influence of planning, political, and urban contextual processes and factors on megaevent production is illustrated through a discussion of comparative event research and a case study of sheffields universiade 1991.
Megaevent, strategic spatial planning, urban governance, urban regeneration, sustainability. At the same time, the negative impacts of megaevents on cities and regions are well documented and occur in. Abstract urban regeneration has been an accepted strategy for reviving city centers around the globe in western. Host communities experience a megaevent as a process with strong emotional. Urban development corporations udcs set up in the 80s and 90s to regenerate the physical, economic and social aspects of selected innercity areas with large amounts of derelict land. Urs as a 3 the urban renewal strategy urs is a government. The outcome is the guide of strategies for urban regeneration ive, 2015, 9 a new designsupport tool for the valencian community that. Mega events as an opportunity for urban regeneration. Events can create knowledge transfer from one city to another, and be used as tools for experimenting new prototypes and urban templates but on a smaller scale. Urban renewal which may be also known as urban redevelopment is a. London east research institute 3 olympic cities and urban regeneration london east research institute presentation 1. A comprehensive and holistic approach should be adopted to rejuvenate older.
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