Mega Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship

Foreword: Mega-Events and Social Citizenship Introduction: "Mega-events as a logic: urban transformation and extended understanding of citizenship" Part I Theorizing mega-events on the ground 1 What makes an event a mega-event? Definitions and sizes 2 Flows, circulations, accumulations: Theorizing mega events 3 Mega-events and impact on social citizenship 4 A critical review of urban mega interventions as trendsetters of urban development practice 5 The evolution of Olympic Games governance Part II Mega-events' practices and processes 6 Mega-events and other disasters: Some evidence from Italy 7 Impact and legacy of mega-events: The Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires: The case of comuna 8 8 The legacies of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia: Three facets of mega-events' biopolitics 9 Urban impacts of second-tier mega-events in the Global East: The European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi and Baku 10 The COP22 in the city of Marrakech: A catalyst for sustainable urban transformation? 11 Time, democracy, social and environmental justice in the urban fabrication of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: What the mobilization of the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis reveals 12 From Tokyo 1964 to Tokyo 2020: Urban citizenship, social transformation, and recovery 13 The legacy of the politics of mega-events in Rio de Janeiro: The right to the city and the struggles over urban citizenship 14 "Built to host"? Built for whom? The LA2028 Olympics and urban exclusions 15 Mega-events as game changers for sustainable transitions and urban citizenship development: Beijing from 2008 to 2022