Anne-Marie Broudehoux

Mega-events and Urban Image Construction (eBook, PDF)

Beijing and Rio de Janeiro

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of this book is the influence of mega-events in the transformation of image construction practices in their host cities. It uses the idea of urban image construction as a lens through which to examine the spectacles of mega-events, with chapters exploring different themes that compose the imagineering process. The physical and social dimensions of these spectacles are addressed, as is the emerging resistance to controversial initiatives. The book explores the unique conditions of mega-event hosting by employing a political-economy point of view and focusing the analytical lenses on Rio de Janeiro and Beijing, two recent Olympic host cities with immense social inequalities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315393292
• Artikelnr.: 47903050

Autorenporträt

Anne-Marie Broudehoux is Associate Professor at the School of Design of the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. She received her doctoral degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. She is the author of The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing (2004), which was awarded the 2004-2005 International Planning History Society (IPHS) book prize in 2006. She has published several book chapters and articles on processes related to urban image construction in the context of mega-event preparation, on aspects ranging across tourism development, planning, architecture and social reforms, especially in Beijing and Rio de Janeiro.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the dark side of place image production - between Faust and
Dorian Gray 1. Mega-events and urban image construction: a tale of two
cities 2. The autonomous and concerted production of mental place images 3.
Mega-events and physical image construction: between seduction and
exclusion 4. Social image construction in the mega-event city:
civilization, discipline and control 5. Contesting the mega-event
spectacle: resistance to urban image construction 6. The human impacts of
urban image construction: revanchism and the neoliberal war on the poor
Conclusion: event-led urban image construction, a critical appraisal