Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces: Expos and Urban Agendas - Hardcover

by Stefano Di Vita (Author), Corinna Morandi (Author)

Offers an innovative and interdisciplinary study of contemporary World Fairs
Sheds new light on the under studied area of mega-events in metropolitan contexts
Provides a timely examination of the increasingly conflicted urban events of which World's fairs are one.

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

Stefano Di Vita, Architect and PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning, is research fellow and adjunct professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Politecnico di Milano, in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Corinna Morandi is Full Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, where she is also member of the Professor Board of the International PhD in Spatial Planning and Urban Development.