The Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Park? Contradictions and Persistent Antagonisms at Sydney's Olympic Park

Davidson, Martin N.

doi:10.1080/02723638.2013.778564

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“…. and provide some claim to Olympic symbols to unify disparate stakeholders" (see also Andranovich et al, 2001, p. 127;Burbank Matthew, Andranovich, & Heying, 2002;Cochrane et al, 1996;Davidson, 2013;Hall, 2006;Hiller, 2000a). As a result, mega-event planning coalitions often take the form of "a selectively transnationalized growth machine" (Surborg et al, 2008, p. 342) that mobilizes expertise for both local and translocal audiences (Cook & Ward, 2011;González, 2011).…”

Section: Global-urban Geographies Of Expertisementioning

confidence: 94%

Boston’s Olympic bid and the evolving urban politics of event-led development

Lauermann

2015

Urban Geography

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The sports mega-events industry is in the midst of a significant reorganization, and the urban politics of event-led development planning is increasingly tumultuous. Three trends stand out: (1) the mega-events industry has been professionalized through consultancies, sports federations' urban policy programs, and city-to-city knowledge-sharing partnerships.(2) Critics of mega-events have been successful in drawing attention to state intervention and public subsidies involved in megaevent planning. (3) A proliferation of anti-bid social movements has pursued a form of urban politics, which more aggressively questions the legitimacy of using mega-events to pursue urban development. I evaluate the implications of these trends with a case study of a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Boston. The failure of the Boston bid illustrates increasing tensions between cities and the mega-events industry.

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Section: Global-urban Geographies Of Expertisementioning

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Boston’s Olympic bid and the evolving urban politics of event-led development

Lauermann

2015

Urban Geography

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“…2 Strategic visions articulated in these bids are typically statements about capacity: capacity to mediate between specific land investment projects and abstract rhetorical claims about event-led development agendas. The former are often detailed site plans and clear business models; the latter are amorphous goals like "regeneration" (González, 2011), "sustainability" (Davidson, 2013), "social inclusion" (Edelson, 2011), or "pro-poor development" (Pillay & Bass, 2008). Olympic land investment projects are often discussed as urban experiments: testing grounds for the aforementioned statement of capacity.…”

Section: Bids As Strategic Claimsmakingmentioning

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“The city” as developmental justification: claimsmaking on the urban through strategic planning

Lauermann

2015

Urban Geography

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Municipal governments produce a seemingly endless supply of urban strategic plans, which purport to define the city by making claims on its future development trajectories. Critics note that this claimsmaking on "the city" renders it conceptually vacuous and overextended. Yet it is essential to question the degree to which speculative policymaking is merely rhetorical. Discursive claimsmaking on the city through strategic planning documents is an important technique in urban politics-a form of targeted simplification that benefits particular stakeholders by defining the city around sites in which they are invested. Bids to host sporting "mega-events" like the Olympic Games are a case in point: event planning corporations routinely make claims on the city, which strategically simplify its forms and processes, often by defining the city in ways that mediate between particular land investment projects and broad visions for citywide development. The implication is that claimsmaking on the city through urban strategic planning is intentionally simplistic and acts as an ideological practice for justifying urban development projects.

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“…Related to this, Davidson (2013) recognises two contrasting agendas in contemporary park design and management, namely sustainability or neoliberalism. The first supports an environmental motive while the second is economically driven and subject to the debates I explore.…”

Section: Parks As Commons: 'Rethinking' the 'Fantasy'mentioning

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A ‘Paradox of the Commons’? The Planning and Everyday Management of Green Point Park

Vries

2019

Urban Forum

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First and foremost, I would like to thank the Lord who has planted in me the dream, and provided me with courage to pursue my Master's at UCT. I did not walk this road alone and found strength in Him. My supervisor, Sophie Oldfield, has welcomed me as a new and unfamiliar student with the most incredible knowledge and guidance and has been there for me every step of the way. Thank you for the passionate scholar that you are, your time, and for always believing in this thesis and in me. It has been such a pleasure to be your student! I would also like to thank the various persons who were so willing to share their time and knowledge with me, allowing me to map more and more of the story told in this thesis. To my parents and my twin sister. Thank you for the wonderful support system that you are, and have always been. Thank you for the prayers, the hugs, the daily phone calls and encouraging words. Most of all, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to spread my wings.

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The Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Park? Contradictions and Persistent Antagonisms at Sydney's Olympic Park

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Boston’s Olympic bid and the evolving urban politics of event-led development

Boston’s Olympic bid and the evolving urban politics of event-led development

“The city” as developmental justification: claimsmaking on the urban through strategic planning

A ‘Paradox of the Commons’? The Planning and Everyday Management of Green Point Park

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