Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces: Expos and Urban Agendas

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This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zaragoza 2008 and Shanghai 2010, were to demonstrate the contribution of the 2015 World’s Fair to the urban innovation process and to the debate surrounding a new urban agenda; as well as to examine empirically and theoretically the international discussion regarding the growth of regional and macro-regional scales of contemporary cities in order to offer suggestions for future urban agendas through mega-events. This book will be of great value to students, researchers and policy makers in the area of urban planning and the urban studies more broadly, geography and spatial politics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Mega-Events and Legacies: A Tradition of Studies (Stefano Di Vita)....Pages 1-13 The Spatial Projects of the Expo 2015 and the Post-Event: The Relationship with Milan’s Urban Change Before, During, and After the Crisis (Corinna Morandi)....Pages 15-37 The Planning and Governance of the Expo 2015 and the Post-Event: The Growth of a New Awareness—Overcoming the State of Exception (Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi)....Pages 39-63 From the Post-Expo 2015 to an Urban Agenda for Milan (Corinna Morandi)....Pages 65-78 World’s Fairs and Processes of Urban Change: New City-Regional Nodes and Networks (Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi)....Pages 79-113 Towards a Post-crisis Urban Agenda: Learning from Mega-Events (Stefano Di Vita)....Pages 115-135 Mega-Events and Urban Studies: Which Mutual Effects? (Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi)....Pages 137-145 Back Matter ....Pages 147-152