A city without citizens: The 2010 Shanghai World Expo as a temporary city

Houdart, Sophie

doi:10.1016/j.ccs.2011.11.005

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“…Literature on place and city branding (Flowerdew, 2004;Hanna and Rowley, 2008;Koller, 2008;Houdart, 2012) thus helped identify the discursive strategies employed in the corpus to provide first Shanghai, then Milan with a competitive brand personality.…”

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confidence: 99%

City Branding and New Media

Paganoni

2015

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City Branding and New Media

Paganoni

2015

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“…Furthermore, Expo's impact on the growth of such cities was examined (Meyer-Künzel, 2007;Vita, 2022), as well as their revitalisation was discussed (Deng, Poon, 2012;Deng, Poon, Chan, 2016). Focus was placed on the management of exhibition participants' flow (Houdart, 2012;Gu, Xu, Fang, Shi, Lv, Peng, Wang, Song, Xie, 2013) and the organisation of municipal transport (Zhou, Wang, Huang, Sun, 2009;Zhu, 2012). Scholars also examined correlations between exhibitions and sustainable development in the context of the "green cities" concept (Zhang, 2013) and infrastructure built to address exhibitors' and visitors' needs (Zhe, Li, Jing, 2011;Deng, Poon, 2013).…”

Section: World Exhibitions In Scientific Researchmentioning

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World’s Fairs in the Service of National Branding – The State of Research, Key Elements of Exhibitors’ Presentations, Exemplification of Image-Building Activities

Gębarowski

2022

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World’s fairs (Expos) are nowadays perceived as so-called mega events, which are attended mainly to build a desired image of exhibiting countries. The article aimed at exploring literature to determine the extent to which the concept in question has been examined by researchers. Furthermore, the author’s intention was – based on experience gained during participation in the last Expo editions – to identify the main presentation components which have a bearing on image-related effects. This constitutes a practical implication of this work. Marketing activities performed during universal exhibitions were exemplified based on the exhibition activity of Poland. A literature review demonstrated that Expo did not receive a lot of researchers’ attention – especially in terms of creating the image of exhibiting countries. Therefore there is a research gap which should be closed, in particular, in the context of combining expo participants’ activity with experience marketing.

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“…It might thus refer to how the public and/or private sector uses derelict or abandoned spaces within cities for temporary exhibitions, festivals, entertainment events, or religious festivals (Haydn & Temel 2006;Madanipour, 2018). Houdart (2012), for example, depicts the Shanghai Expo as a good example of a temporary city of this format. These large-scale events can become part of important city marketing campaigns and are often viewed positively by city authorities.…”

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Optimal Service Planning in a Temporary City

Alotaibi¹,

Clarke²,

Malleson³

2020

JSSM

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Temporary cities provide unique challenges in terms of urban planning and management. In particular, there are problems in terms of providing adequate service provision and ensuring an equitable access to those services. In addition, when temporary cities also involve a mass gathering for an event, there is a need for a strategic plan for managing the movement of this crowd over time. The Hajj is an annual religious event which hosts about 3 million pilgrims each year. It is the second largest annual gathering of Muslims in the world. The pilgrims reside for a number of days in the "tent city" of Mina. The organisers of the Hajj must plan the location of services to support this huge temporary population and also provide a plan to facilitate the performing of the religious rituals in an easy and safe manner (in particular to avoid overcrowding). In this paper, we estimate and map the distribution of populations across Mina during the Hajj and explore the location of existing services to investigate how well served the population is within various parts of the City. For illustrative purposes, we explore access to health centres and civil defence (mainly fire services). After analysing the current provision of these services across the City (through building suitable accessibility measures) we use a location allocation model to compare the current provision with a set of optimal, model-based locations. The model is also used to operationalise a series of what-if scenarios including reducing the number of facilities in line with increased Government concerns over escalating costs and changing demand in line with pilgrim movements throughout the day. The results of the location-allocation modelling could also help revamp staffing rotas-not only can the model provide optimal locations they can estimate the workloads associated with each facility location (based on the volume of local demand), meaning the thousands of health workers could be also located more optimally.

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A city without citizens: The 2010 Shanghai World Expo as a temporary city

Cited by 9 publications

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City Branding and New Media

City Branding and New Media

World’s Fairs in the Service of National Branding – The State of Research, Key Elements of Exhibitors’ Presentations, Exemplification of Image-Building Activities

Optimal Service Planning in a Temporary City

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