Funding for data collection in this project comes from a Swiss National Science Foundation Grant in Social Sciences and Humanities.
The reuse of industrial heritage sites has become increasingly prevalent in the context of hosting mega-events.This paper aims to investigate this trend,specifcally in the context of Olympic Games or World Expos,and i...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 5180839);Shanghai Pujiang Program (Grant No. 17PJC084).
This paper contributes to an in-depth understanding of how the mega- event contributes glurbanization of entrepreneurial city through a case study of Expo 2010 in Shanghai. It argues that spatial-related transformatio...
A mega-event which attracts attention from all over the world might have both positive and negative effect on the hosting city(Syme et al.1989).The aim of this paper is to evaluate the costs and benefits of bidding fo...
Mega-event tlagship (MEF) is a dual instrument for staging a mega-event and catalyzing regional urban renewal. Despite its unfailing popularity and controversial nature, many initiators seem to equate MEF developmen...
Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 40171027);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No 5301104);Soft Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No 2005B70101058)
Taking the affinity between events and media as a conceptualization base, a total of 1032 related news re-ports of Expo '99 Kunming, gathered from the internet data bank of China INFOBANK from 1992 to 2003, are used a...