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China, mega-events and social change: background themes and issues China, mega-events and social change: background themes and issues
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China and major sport events China and major sport events
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Second-order mega-events in Guangzhou and Shenzhen Second-order mega-events in Guangzhou and Shenzhen
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The Beijing 2008 Olympic mega-event and its legacies The Beijing 2008 Olympic mega-event and its legacies
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China’s Expo: the Shanghai Expo 2010 mega-event and its legacies China’s Expo: the Shanghai Expo 2010 mega-event and its legacies
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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7 Mega-events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty-first century
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Published:June 2017
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Abstract
The contemporary period of globalisation involves various economic and other ‘global shifts’ from Western to non-Western societies. This chapter explores the idea that these deeper social changes are reflected in the world of mega-events, notably in the ‘global shift’ in mega-event locations away from the West to increasingly include non-Western world regions. The chapter views contemporary mega-events as ‘multi-theme legacy park’ projects for their host cities. Their shift to new non-Western contexts is illustrated by reviewing mega-events in contemporary China, particularly the cases of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Game and the Shanghai 2010 Expo 2010. The chapter shows that, in spite of many differences, at least one notable commonality between the Sydney 200O Olympic model and event legacies in Beijing and Shanghai in particular is the construction of major new urban green spaces. These urban park-building and park-renewing projects have typically aimed to embody, on a permanent basis, environmental and recreational (rather than sporting) values and vision of urbanism. In addition these mega-event projects all aimed, in comparable ways (even if to greater or lesser extents), to use these new urban parks as hubs and catalysts from which other (social and economic) mega-event legacy influences might also be developed.
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