Name: Thursday - MEGAEVENTPLANNING: Mega Events and Urban Development
Start: 2013-04-04T15:10:00-0700
End: 2013-04-04T16:30:00-0700

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Thursday - MEGAEVENTPLANNING: Mega Events and Urban Development

Moderator: Eva Kassens-Noor (Michigan State University)

Mega Event Utopias
Eva Kassens-Noor (Michigan State University)
Olympic Impact: Whose City is It?
Greg Andranovich (California State University), Matthew J. Burbank (University of Utah)
“Festivalisation” of Urban Governance in South African Cities
Matthias Fleischer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Maximilian Fuhrmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Christoph Haferburg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Fred Krüger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Mega event stadia: important agents on the process of urban regeneration
Gustavo Garcia do Amaral (University of São Paulo)
Megaevent Development in Rio de Janeiro: Assessing the Efficacy of Civil Society Strategies to Avoid Dislocations of Residents
Maureen Donaghy (Rutgers University, Camden)