Hosting a Mega Event, a Drive Towards Sustainable Development: Dubai’s Expo 2020

Taha, Bashar; Allan, Andrew

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19424-6_13

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“…The public open spaces and plazas are vital elements for developing future smart cities and sustainable urbanism that Dubai is aiming to achieve by 2021 (Taha and Allan, 2019). The real estate sector is one of the key players to collaborate in drawing new urban planning vision and policy framework by monitoring the market demands and conditions (Allen, 2003).…”

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Enriching Real-Estate Through Sustainable Public Spaces: The case of Dubai- UAE

Ezzeddine

2024

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In the process of the ongoing urban planning strategies for developing smart cities, the concept of urban public square has not yet been given the attention of urbanists and city planners in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. More focus was given by architects and developers on saturating the market with iconic smart buildings rather than developing more livable communities with public spaces and plazas for people to connect. The overall aim of this paper is to highlight the key role that the real state sector can play to foster developing public spaces and squares as an integral part of smart urbanism. The issue of developing urban public squares in Dubai new communities and formulating policies for including such spaces in new districts and cities should be closely examined. The focus should be on enriching the real estate sector by regulating a concept of injecting urban public squares in the new smart and sustainable urbanism in Dubai to perform as a sociocultural entity within the fabric of new communities for the sake of improving social life and developing vibrant environment. With keywords such as smart city, public squares, social, urban design, livability; and sustainability, this write up makes the case of sustainable urbanization.

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Enriching Real-Estate Through Sustainable Public Spaces: The case of Dubai- UAE

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2024

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“…All these infrastructure improvements were built with the goal of making transport more efficient during the Olympic Games . However, there are other examples of hosting cities that revealed a lack of consideration for sustainability and planning for the future, therefore, huge financial risk was imposed on economy, as a result of investing capital in underutilized developments and infrastructures, such as the case of Montreal's 1976 Summer Olympic Games, where that mega event saddled government with massive debts and created potential urban blight with underutilized assets or white elephants (Taha & Allan, 2019;Taha & Allan, 2020). Similarly, the Sydney Summer Olympics in 2000 was a significant catalyst for urban infrastructure development that includes better transport connectivity, capacity expansion of Kingsford Smith International airport and capacity improvements at its main metropolitan rail hub, Central Station .…”

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“…Cities and local government have managed to benefit from hosting mega-events to achieve intangible targets such as the regenerating urban imaginaries (Jennifer & Martin, 2019), (Broudehoux, 2007); (Broudehoux, 2017). While planning for hosting mega events, the hosting cities are generally focusing on important factors such as the event's economic implications, event related income, urban development and regeneration, building and upgrading infrastructure, providing a transportation system capable of transporting the expected numerous visitors to and from the event location and the development of tourism (Taha & Allan, 2019). Most cities aim to maximise the benefits of hosting mega-events to develop infrastructure and push urban renewal, often through leveraging funds that would be available for hosting mega-events are also used by local hosts to restructure urban land and create new civic centres and public spaces, transforming the uses and users of the land (Grix, 2013), , & (Smith, 2012).…”

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Planning for Legacy – A Cost Effective and Sustainable Approach. Case Study: Dubai Expo 2020

Taha

Allan²

2022

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. The planning and development of a site for hosting a mega event such as world exhibitions, summer and winter Olympic Games and World Cup, that attracts numerous numbers of visitors and global attention, is a challenging mission and requires a massive and resource intensive effort of coordination and cooperation between different authorities to ensure the timely delivery of the required facilities and infrastructure, on budget and without unanticipated cost overruns. Usually, these mega events last for a relatively short period, which presents a significant financial risk that requires addressing, in order to avoid building surplus assets and infrastructure that will be only used for the limited duration of the event which is fraction of its potential asset life, potentially resulting in it being left unutilized after the event . This risk can be controlled by forming a governance body to ensure appropriate coordination between different authorities to ensure that the plan for hosting a mega event is embedded in and integrated with the plan for the hosting city’s growth and with the objective of ultimately deliver a lasting legacy that efficiently capitalizes on the potential asset life of all of the mega event’s buildings and infrastructure post-event. This research work focuses on the model adopted by Dubai to manage the delivery of the exhibition of Dubai Expo 2020 and the sustainable development that will stay beyond the event. Over the course of planning for this event and its post-event legacy, the Dubai government formed and implemented a system of governance and project management designed to ensure the effective development and delivery of the event and its expected legacy and to safeguard the interests of the city throughout its life-cycle. This research examined the sustainability factors considered in the planning of Dubai’s Expo 2020, considered essential in providing the necessary legacy and that maximized the cost effectiveness of investment. Some of the mega projects implemented as part of the delivery of Dubai’s Expo 2020 and legacy will be outlined in this paper. The main aim of this study is to represent a case study of best practice in the hosting of a mega event and in planning for its legacy.

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“…The first line of inquiry is about the global-national organisational synergy of megaevent sustainability over time (Kromidha et al, 2019;Weaver et al, 2021), often discursively embodied in event themes and bid books (Smith and Fox, 2007;Gaffney, 2013;Xu, 2015). The second line of inquiry is about the paradox under the triple bottom lines of environment, social and economic sustainability in practises of host cities, often contested, negotiated and reconciled by local stakeholders (Fleischer et al, 2013;Taha and Allan, 2019;Gulak-Lipka and Jagielski, 2020;Mirzayeva et al, 2020;Mair et al, 2021). With the global prevalence of megaevents, research echoing these two lines of inquiries is more crucial for developing countries, where civic engagement is less common, than for developed ones.…”

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Contesting Sustainability of Mega-Events in Chinese Metropolises: A Narrative and Practise Review

2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Since the Rio Summit, sustainability has been enshrined in the official claims of mega-events, and scholars' sustainability concerns over mega-events persist. This research is one of the few contextualising the debates in China where mega-events have become prevalent and contributed to metropolitan boosterism since the 1990s. It argues that the ill-defined, ambiguous meaning of sustainability leaves room for host cities to discursively strike a balance between environment protection, social equity and economic growth, but unavoidably leads to paradoxes of sustainability in actual practises. The argument is supported by a longitudinal study on 12 major mega-events held or to be held in Chinese metropolises. Narratively, Chinese government's articulation of sustainability declared by international organisations of top mega-events has evolved technocratic and inclusive. Practically, amongst the three variants of sustainability, economic sustainability, and environmental sustainability appear to work better than social sustainability. Findings of this research call for clarified narratives and concrete measures to guide mega-event practises.

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Hosting a Mega Event, a Drive Towards Sustainable Development: Dubai’s Expo 2020

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Enriching Real-Estate Through Sustainable Public Spaces: The case of Dubai- UAE

Enriching Real-Estate Through Sustainable Public Spaces: The case of Dubai- UAE

Planning for Legacy – A Cost Effective and Sustainable Approach. Case Study: Dubai Expo 2020

Contesting Sustainability of Mega-Events in Chinese Metropolises: A Narrative and Practise Review

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