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Policy Mobilities and the Bid

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Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

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This chapter examines how political strategies and policy knowledge travel across cities bidding for the Olympics. It introduces urban studies scholarship on “policy mobilities”—interurban flows of expertise, knowledge, and models. This chapter focuses on the role of the bid consulting industry in facilitating policy mobilities, seen particularly in the mobility of expertise surrounding urban technology, sustainability, and urban architecture and design. This chapter argues that policy mobilities are driven by import imperatives (e.g., the need for cities to hire international experts when designing their bids) and by export imperatives (e.g., the desire to legitimate local projects by linking them to globally replicable policy models or templates).

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Oliver, R., Lauermann, J. (2017). Policy Mobilities and the Bid. In: Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space. Mega Event Planning. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59823-3_3

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