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Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban
Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing
to the renewal and development of urban societies. This book adopts
a case study approach to examine a diverse range of events taking
place in towns and cities in Europe, Asia and North America. This
volume begins by defining and classifying these kinds of events and
then verifying if and how they can provide opportunities for cities
and towns without the disadvantages of world-famous large events.
It concludes by discussing the growing regional scale of urban
phenomena and their transition in post-metropolitan spaces.
Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban
Spectacle will be of interest to government officials and policy
makers involved in economic development, urban planning, parks,
arts/culture as well as students and researchers interested in
urbanism, event management, tourism and recreation.
As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions,
Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of
innovations and contemporary productions - old and new
manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive sectors, creative and
cultural economy - and investigate their influence both on spatial
patterns and urban policy agenda. Accordingly, this book explores
the contentious geographies of innovation, productions and working
spaces, both empirically and theoretically in a city that, since
the beginning of the 2000s, has been involved in a process of urban
change, with relevant spatial and socio-economic effects, within an
increasingly turbulent world economy. Through this analysis, the
book provides an insight into the complexity of contemporary urban
phenomena beyond a traditional metropolitan lens, highlighting
issues such as rescaling, urban decentralization and
recentralization, extensive urban transformation and shrinkage and
molecular urban regeneration. This book is a valuable resource for
academics, researchers and scholars focusing on Urban Studies such
as Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Urban Geography, Urban Economy and
Urban Sociology.
The temporal and spatial intersection of information and
telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies,
and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to
significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial
configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis
emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is
creating socioeconomic and spatial features that are only recently
beginning to be explored in the scholarly literature. According to
this scenario, this edited book offers a variety of avenues for
exploring the relationships between contemporary production
activities and new workplaces in several urban contexts. In
particular, it focuses on the consequences of these relationships
in terms of regeneration of the urban fabric, as well as on their
implication in terms of urban policies. This book represents early
observation of the fast-growing phenomenon of new productive
activities and workplaces against the background of the gig economy
and sharing economy paradigms. Central to this discussion is the
investigation of the connection between digital technologies, new
works and workplaces, and urban change processes and projects, by
providing an additional contribution to new urban agendas for
contemporary cities. The chapters originally published as a special
issue in the Journal of Urban Technology.
This book explores the innovative workplaces, namely coworking
spaces and makerspaces, that are emerging as a consequence of
digital innovations and the related development of the knowledge
economy and society in the wake of deindustrialization. Drawing on
international and multidisciplinary research projects, fresh
insights are provided into current trends, research methodologies,
actors, location patterns and effects, and urban and regional
policies and planning. The aim is to cast light on all aspects of
these new working and making spaces, highlighting their innovative
geographies and the complexities of their nexus with urban and
regional change processes from both the theoretical and the
empirical point of view. The book includes multiple illuminating
case studies from the advanced economies of North America and
Europe, carefully selected for their relevance to the topic under
analysis. This book is designed for an international audience
comprising not only academicians but also policymakers,
representatives of civil and entrepreneurial associations, and
business operators.
Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban
Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing
to the renewal and development of urban societies. This book adopts
a case study approach to examine a diverse range of events taking
place in towns and cities in Europe, Asia and North America. This
volume begins by defining and classifying these kinds of events and
then verifying if and how they can provide opportunities for cities
and towns without the disadvantages of world-famous large events.
It concludes by discussing the growing regional scale of urban
phenomena and their transition in post-metropolitan spaces.
Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban
Spectacle will be of interest to government officials and policy
makers involved in economic development, urban planning, parks,
arts/culture as well as students and researchers interested in
urbanism, event management, tourism and recreation.
This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and
interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World's
Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015
and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have
been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition
areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as
post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to
previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zaragoza 2008 and Shanghai
2010, were to demonstrate the contribution of the 2015 World's Fair
to the urban innovation process and to the debate surrounding a new
urban agenda; as well as to examine empirically and theoretically
the international discussion regarding the growth of regional and
macro-regional scales of contemporary cities in order to offer
suggestions for future urban agendas through mega-events. This book
will be of great value to students, researchers and policy makers
in the area of urban planning and the urban studies more broadly,
geography and spatial politics.
As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions,
Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of
innovations and contemporary productions - old and new
manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive sectors, creative and
cultural economy - and investigate their influence both on spatial
patterns and urban policy agenda. Accordingly, this book explores
the contentious geographies of innovation, productions and working
spaces, both empirically and theoretically in a city that, since
the beginning of the 2000s, has been involved in a process of urban
change, with relevant spatial and socio-economic effects, within an
increasingly turbulent world economy. Through this analysis, the
book provides an insight into the complexity of contemporary urban
phenomena beyond a traditional metropolitan lens, highlighting
issues such as rescaling, urban decentralization and
recentralization, extensive urban transformation and shrinkage and
molecular urban regeneration. This book is a valuable resource for
academics, researchers and scholars focusing on Urban Studies such
as Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Urban Geography, Urban Economy and
Urban Sociology.
This book offers a fascinating exploration of the relationship
between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and
spatial planning, expanding the concept of "urban smartness" from
the usual scale of buildings or urban projects to the regional
dimension. In particular, it presents the outcomes of research
undertaken at Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with Telecom
Italia, that had three principal goals: to investigate the use of
ICTs for the representation, promotion, management, and
dissemination of an integrated system of services; to explore the
spatial impacts of digital services at different scales (regional,
urban, local); and to understand how a system of mobile services
can encourage new spatial uses and new collective behavior in the
quest for better spatial quality of places. Useful critical
analysis of international case studies is also included with the
aim of verifying the opportunities afforded by new digital services
not only to improve the urban efficiency but also to foster the
evolution of urban communities through enhancement of the public
realm. The book will be a source of valuable insights for both
scholars and local administrators and operators involved in smart
city projects.
The temporal and spatial intersection of information and
telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies,
and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to
significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial
configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis
emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is
creating socioeconomic and spatial features that are only recently
beginning to be explored in the scholarly literature. According to
this scenario, this edited book offers a variety of avenues for
exploring the relationships between contemporary production
activities and new workplaces in several urban contexts. In
particular, it focuses on the consequences of these relationships
in terms of regeneration of the urban fabric, as well as on their
implication in terms of urban policies. This book represents early
observation of the fast-growing phenomenon of new productive
activities and workplaces against the background of the gig economy
and sharing economy paradigms. Central to this discussion is the
investigation of the connection between digital technologies, new
works and workplaces, and urban change processes and projects, by
providing an additional contribution to new urban agendas for
contemporary cities. The chapters originally published as a special
issue in the Journal of Urban Technology.
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