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Post-bid Rescaling

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Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

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This chapter theorizes three “rescaling” strategies that occur when a city “fails” to succeed during mega-event bidding: (1) political rescaling; (2) event rescaling; and (3) bid rescaling. Employing the use of three case examples, this chapter illustrates how the bidding processes in Toronto, Manchester and Paris necessitate rethinking how bids for the Olympic Games can shift the logic of public and private governance in a city/region and become handmaidens to the interests of the state in the restructuring of a city’s mode of governance. The wider impacts that bidding can have on democratic processes and urban politics in the post-bid period is the critical subject matter of this chapter.

This chapter was written with the assistance of Lewis Bellas.

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Oliver, R., Lauermann, J. (2017). Post-bid Rescaling. 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_6

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