The impacts of sports mega-events on the cities: FIFA World Cup urban legacy in Brazil
| dc.contributor.author | Nobre, Eduardo A. C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-12T13:39:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-12T13:39:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The idea of promoting sports mega-events has been defended by strategic planning consultants as a way for cities to compete for “scarce international investments” and reach economic development in the “extremely competitive environment” of Contemporary Capitalism. They say that hosting such events will bring together an amount of public and private investments in infrastructure, services and job generating activities that would take a longer time to happen without them: the so called “legacy”. However, many authors have criticized this strategy as it generally represents a great diversion of capital to business accumulation whereas public spending has little social return and most of times the initial objectives are not accomplished. In spite of all the critics, the Brazilian Government presented a bid in 2006 to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup, with a rationale aiming at: “…coordinating a program of investments that will transform some of the most important capitals of the country from North to South and from all regions: Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo. For all Brazilian, whatever the outcome of the World Cup will be, an important legacy in infrastructure, job and income creation will remain, promoting the country\'s image globally.” (Federal Republic of Brazil, 2006). The aim of this round table is to analyse the 2014 FIFA World Cup legacy in Brazil, taking into account five host-cities (Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo). | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 110-111 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2681 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | The impacts of sports mega-events on the cities: FIFA World Cup urban legacy in Brazil | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |