| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 373 pages : illustrations |
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Routledge international handbooks |
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Routledge international handbooks.
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| Contents |
Part 1. Planning and governance of legacy: 1. A strategic and pluralistic approcach to legacy: the case of the Giro d'Italia -- 2. Economic legacy to cities of hosting mega sports events: a case study of Beijing 2008 -- 3. The 1908 Olympic Games: a case study in accidental and incidental legacies -- 4. A stakeholder analysis of the governance of the 2010 FIFA World Cup: a case study of the city of Cape Town -- 5. Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: modes of legacy network governance -- Part 2. Urbanisation and legacy: 6. Sydney Olympic Park 2000 to 2010: a case study of legacy implementation over the longer term -- 7. Croke Park as a historic venue: combining national legacy with multiple use -- 8. The legacy of memory: the Stockholm and Helsinki Olympic stadia as living memorials -- 9. The legacy of the 2004 Olympics for the Athens transport system -- 10. Framing the future: sustainability, legacy and the 2012 London games -- Part 3. Social and cultural legacies: 11. Paralympic legacy: what legacy? -- 12. A lost legacy of fraternity: the case of European youth football -- 13. Cultural Olympiad or an Olympics for cultural regeneration? "Torino 2006" and its legacy -- 14. Major sporting events and long-lasting tourism impacts: 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany -- 15. A socially responsible business legacy: raising standards in procurement, supply chains and employment at the London Olympics of 2012 -- Part 4. Human capital and legacy: 16. City capacity building: preparing to exploit the legacy of a large-scale sports event: the case of Valencia and the 2007 America's Cup -- 17. Transferring knowledge, know-how and capability: managing and sharing knowledge for future events -- 18. From the first soccer women's world championship in 1991 to the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008: how capacity-building in small scale tournaments can help win mega-event bids -- 19. Learning disability sport, volunteers and legacy: the case of Special Olympics Great Britain National Games 2009 -- 20. The impact of the Olympics on the high performance legacy of a host country -- Part 5. The politics and image of legacy: 21. The political and diplomatic legacy of the Montréal Olympics -- 22. Media, sport and memory: the mediated legacies of great sporting events -- 23. "Global visibility and prestige": the anticipated legacies of mega sporting events in the Gulf states -- 24. Modern temples of marble and concrete: the legacy of the unsuccessful Olympic ambition of Fascist Rome -- 25. The mixed legacy of Munich: the material, cultural and political consequences of the 1972 Olympic Games |
| Summary |
What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played? How can the vast expense of mounting such events be justified? What if there is nothing left behind or what if the legacy is negative, a costly infrastructure which is unused or a debt-ridden host city? The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy addresses perhaps the most important issue in the hosting of major contemporary sporting events: the problem of 'legacy'. It offers a rigorous, innovative and comparative insight into this contested concept from interdisciplinary and practical perspectiv |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Machine converted from AACR2 source record |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2015) |
| Subject |
Hosting of sporting events -- Social aspects
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Hosting of sporting events -- Economic aspects
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Sports -- Economic aspects.
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Hosting of sporting events -- Planning -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Hosting of sporting events -- Economic aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Hosting of sporting events -- Social aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Sports -- Economic aspects
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Sports -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holt, Richard, 1948- editor.
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Ruta, Dino, editor.
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Panter, James, editor
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| ISBN |
1136477594 |
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9781136477591 |
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9780203132562 |
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0203132564 |
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9781136477546 |
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1136477543 |
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9781136477584 |
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1136477586 |
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9781138709560 |
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1138709565 |
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9781336139213 |
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1336139218 |
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1785392700 |
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9781785392702 |
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