Tag: mega-events
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File under: clever strategies to skim a little off the top
Kirill Bezrukov (@KBezrukov) pointed me to this beautiful example of savvy business in Kaliningrad. There’s a bridge (Vysokiy Most, or High Bridge) that connects the main parts of Kaliningrad to Oktyabrskiy Ostrov, a quirky, mostly undeveloped island in the middle of the city. Among other things, the city’s World Cup development agenda involves transforming this…
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The World Cup and/or Urban Development
Mega-events are mega expensive – this is nothing new. And while there are exhaustive lists of the high costs of preparing for the Olympics or the World Cup, there is also evidence that in some cases these are better understood not as the costs of a sporting event, but rather as massive development projects with…
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Sleight of Hand
If you’re feeling critical, it’s easy enough to find problems in the preparations for a World Cup. In seemingly any host nation, journalists and academics alike find ripe fruit in bribery and corruption scandals, tales of misused funds and human rights violations, busted budgets, and the sad parade of white elephant stadiums. In this, unfortunately,…
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Russia’s 2018 World Cup – A Conversation Beyond Sport
An article I wrote for Futbolgrad.com about some issues to look for in the 2018 World Cup. http://futbolgrad.com/russias-2018-world-cup-conversation-beyond-sport/