Towards a mega-event legacy framework

Kaßens-Noor, Eva; Wilson, Mark; Müller, Sven; Maharaj, Brij; Huntoon, Laura

doi:10.1080/02614367.2015.1035316

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“…Although frameworks to test and measure legacies have been discussed, particularly in academic circles (e.g., Dickson, Benson & Blackman, 2011;Kassens-Noor, Wilson, Müller, Maharaj & Huntoon, 2015), we argue these evaluations tend to fall short politically due to the lengthy period of time needed to evaluate the success of sporting event legacies (Carlsen & Taylor, 2003). Tensions are prevalent between these evaluation processes and the political justification for short-term legacy results.…”

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Priming Host City Physical Legacy Plans: The Bidding Chronicles of Brazil's Derailed Sporting Event Infrastructure Projects

Kirby¹,

Crabb²

2019

Event Management

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Priming Host City Physical Legacy Plans: The Bidding Chronicles of Brazil's Derailed Sporting Event Infrastructure Projects

Kirby¹,

Crabb²

2019

Event Management

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“…This in turn has key impacts on the local users and specifically those who rely on those modes of transport to fulfil their everyday needs. Conceptually, it broadens the legacy discussion into the sustainable urban transport arena; much of the early research (e.g., [1][2][3]17,18]) is from a sports or events perspective [16], but the evolving themes of legacies as tools to deliver socio-economic benefits to the host city [8] requires alignment with research into sustainable urban development. This is paramount for transport legacies, which as levers of public funding [12,15] must be integrated with long-term strategic urban planning.…”

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“…In line with this, Leopkey and Parent [8] describe how the MSE legacy concept evolved from something that was simply beneficial to the host city to a series of defined social, economic, and/or environmental legacy themes linked to city and regional strategies. Others have developed approaches to define or type "legacy" in order to assess whether it (or they) delivers a positive or negative impact to the host city, albeit noting that this varies with stakeholder perspective [1][2][3][4]17,18]. Kassens-Noor discussed the dreams and realities of Olympic transport legacies, describing how the influence of the International Olympic Committee in the design of new transport systems in event cities has produced generic transport legacies, ignoring local contexts [5,6].…”

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Operational Challenges and Mega Sporting Events Legacy: The Case of BRT Systems in the Global South

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This paper examines the bus rapid transit (BRT) legacies of mega sporting events (MSEs) held in the Global South cities of Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. It discusses the extent to which these transport systems have been operationally sustainable, post-MSE; in other words, their ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level and hence their ability to act as public good as planned and according to specific needs. It argues that in both cities, long-term operational challenges have emerged due to conflictual temporalities between the priorities of the MSE and the mid/long term requirements of a transport system, supplemented by a poor spatial contextualisation of BRT design. These include financial viability, providing a service with appropriate frequency and capacity, integration with other transport systems, and resilience to external shocks such as extreme weather. These findings have key academic and policy implications both by opening further areas of research towards MSEs as a tool to deliver sustainable urban transport, and provides important lessons for future MSE hosts and cities considering BRT.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1609 2 of 17 there is very little insight into how these MSE-led infrastructures have been delivering the purposes for which they have been built, and specifically how the MSE imperatives may have affected its long-term development. In other words, we look here at the possible tensions of priorities between short-term ambitions (MSE) and long-term everyday needs. This indeed has a key impact on the authorities and operators who manage and fund public transport systems, and on the passengers who rely on it. To achieve this, the paper uses the term of operational sustainability, which is here shaped around the aim of assessing conflicting temporalities during setup of the project and hence reflecting on the wider implications for the long-term running and management of the network. We do so by bringing together the literature on MSE, sustainability, transport management, and infrastructure [8][9][10][11][12].This paper focuses on two cities whose transport network has been significantly impacted by hosting MSEs: Cape Town (South Africa) with the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) with the 2016 Olympic Games. Each city constructed new bus rapid transit (BRT systems) under the auspices of hosting a MSE, and self-identified this in their proprietary communications and strategies as a transport legacy of the MSE. Through interviews with key stakeholders located in each city, this study assesses the benefits of the MSE for transport within the cities, such as reduced travel time in Rio de Janeiro, and a step-change in the quality of transport provision in Cape Town. It also considers the longer-term operational challenges such as financial viability that these BRT systems are facing post-MSE because they have not been sufficiently contextualised to the local transport situation and/or aligned with existing plans or policies. It is worth noting that this comparative rese...

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“…Focusing on the WCs, the study numbers per WC are in Figure 5. About the subjects addressed in the body of studies, the legacy frameworks were considered first as the structures under which stakeholders evaluate the different SME [9,[24][25][26][27][28], even though they differ in their dimensions and criteria, and there is not a unique standard of evaluation. Sustainability in all its dimensions is considered in 17 studies [7,[11][12][13]15,23,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], usually encompassing the historical integration of the sustainability movement, especially in the OGs and, in a later and even smaller reach, in the WCs.…”

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Sustainability in Mega-Events: Beyond Qatar 2022

2019

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Hosting a mega-event such as the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup is a defining moment for Qatar, a country that is in transition, small in size and population, and rich in natural gas reserves. It is a unique opportunity to host a universal event and leave a sustainable positive legacy for the country. However, the preparation, execution, and after-effects of such events are challenging initiatives with significant long-term impacts on the economy, society, and environment in the hosting country and nearby region. This study addresses the intersection between mega sports events and sustainability, to systematically compare and learn from past mega-events and apply that to the case of the Qatar 2022 World Cup. The Qatari bid proposed a new FIFA Men’s World Cup (WC) spatial compact model around just one city area and the goal of achieving the first carbon-neutral WC. Herein, the challenges, opportunities, and progress in this scenario are evaluated accordingly, showing that local organizers are applying green technologies, urban development concepts, and strongly upholding the idea of legacies based on the Qatar National Vision 2030, which envisions sustainable development of the country. However, additional work is still needed to reduce environmental impacts and on several reported social issues.

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Towards a mega-event legacy framework

Cited by 55 publications

References 16 publications

Priming Host City Physical Legacy Plans: The Bidding Chronicles of Brazil's Derailed Sporting Event Infrastructure Projects

Priming Host City Physical Legacy Plans: The Bidding Chronicles of Brazil's Derailed Sporting Event Infrastructure Projects

Operational Challenges and Mega Sporting Events Legacy: The Case of BRT Systems in the Global South

Sustainability in Mega-Events: Beyond Qatar 2022

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