Cultural mega-events in heritage-rich cities
Cidades, Comunidades e Território, 2021 The European Capital of Culture (ECoC) is a well-known and long-standing European policy that annually awards the title of Capital to two or more cities that deliver cultural initiatives throughout one year of celebrations.
Zachary Mark Jones, Davide Ponzini
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Interpreting mega-development projects as territorial traps: the case of irrigation schemes on the shores of Lake Chad (Borno State, Nigeria) [PDF]
, 2017 From the colonial era up to the present, mega-irrigation projects for agriculture have played a key role in the production of state space in Sahelian Africa.
Bertoncin, Marina, Pase, Andrea
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Historic Urbanscapes For Tomorrow, Two Italian Cases: Genoa And Bologna [PDF]
, 2015 The following pages reflect on the possible updated “structural” function of the historic parts of contemporary cities through the examples provided by two medium-sized Italian cities – Genoa and Bologna – characterized by the presence of an important ...
Bonfantini, G. Bertrando
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The Entangled Everyday: Design Seoul and the Disciplining of Commercial Signs
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2017 This article claims that the recent mega-scale urban project Design Seoul is a case illustrating the entanglement of institutional interventions onto everyday city space and varying reactions from individual agents of power.
Seunghan Paek
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Cultures of Image Construction Approaching Planning Cultures as a Factor in Urban Image Production [PDF]
, 2014 Why do the same planning approaches cause different results around the world? Because, even in times of globalization, there is obviously more than one way of planning. These different modes are an expression of distinct local planning cultures.
Suitner, Johannes
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Re-thinking the Legacy 2012: The Olympics as commodity and gift [PDF]
, 2008 This paper opens discussion about the nature of Olympic ‘legacy’ and articulates a contradiction in the way ‘legacy’ is conceived - between ’gift’ and ’commodity’ (Mauss 1954).The The paper argues that establishing working definitions and parameters for ‘
Gregory C. +4 more
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Indoor particulate matter in developing countries: a case study in Pakistan and potential intervention strategies [PDF]
, 2013 Around three billion people, largely in low and middle income countries, rely on biomass fuels for their household energy needs. The combustion of these fuels generates a range of hazardous indoor air pollutants and is an important cause of morbidity and
Ian Colbeck +4 more
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Conceição Silva, "the architect of tourism"
Joelho, 2019 In 1973, Gustavo Gili published the Spanish version of Planning and Design for Leisure, by Georges Candilis. In the Introduction, the author emphasised that "from the moment we admit that mass leisure is in the process of becoming a crucial phenomenon ...
Susana Lobo
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Cleaner Production LettersAir pollution remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges facing rapidly urbanizing regions worldwide, threatening public health and sustainable development.
Jie Gao, Markus Lang, Yiyi Jiang
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Resilient planning for sporting mega-events: designing and managing safe and secure urban places for London 2012 and beyond [PDF]
, 2011 Since the 1960s both regeneration and security have been prominent themes in Olympic planning. However, this paper argues that the prominence given to post event 'legacies' in London's bid to host the 2012 Summer Games has fomented a merger of these ...
Coaffee, J, Fussey, P
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