Short-term gains and long-term challenges to learning from mega-event planning in the city of Genoa

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Zachary Mark Jones
Keyword(s):  
Short Term ◽  
Event Planning ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The City

The Urban Politics of Mega-Events

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lauermann
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Potential Host ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Event Planning ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Mega Event

This article reviews recent scholarship on the urban politics of mega-events. Mega-events have long been promoted as drivers of urban development, based on their potential to generate beneficial legacies for host cities. Yet the mega-event industry is increasingly struggling to find cities willing to host. Political arguments that promote mega-events to host cities include narratives about mega-event legacy—the potential for events to generate long-term benefits—and mega-event leveraging—the idea that cities can strategically link event planning to other policy agendas. In contrast, the apparent decline in interest among potential host cities stems from two political shifts: skepticism toward the promises made by boosters, and the emergence of new kinds of protest movements. The article analyzes an example of largely successful opposition to mega-events, and evaluates parallels between the politics of mega-events and those of other urban megaprojects.

Changes in Hospitalization for Ischemic Heart Disease After the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake: 10 Years of Data in a Population of 300,000

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisen Huang ◽  
Dejia Huang ◽  
Dingxiu He ◽  
Joris van Loenhout ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Ischemic Heart Disease ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Ischemic Heart ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Sichuan Earthquake ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Incidence Of Hospitalization ◽  
The City

AbstractObjectiveThe effects of earthquakes on ischemic heart disease (IHD) have often been reported. At a population level, this study examined short-term (60-day) and long-term (5-year) hospitalization events for IHD after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.MethodsWe examined the 10-year medical hospitalization records on IHD in the city of Deyang provided by the Urban Employee Basic Health Insurance program.ResultsEvaluation of 19,083 hospitalizations showed a significantly lower proportional number and cost of hospitalizations in the 60 days after the earthquake (P<0.001). Hospitalizations were 27.81% lower than would have been expected in a normal year; costs were 32.53% lower. However, in the 5 years after the earthquake, the age-adjusted annual incidence of hospitalization increased significantly (P<0.001). In the fifth year after the earthquake, it was significantly higher in the extremely hard-hit area than in the hard-hit area (P<0.01).ConclusionAfter the 2008 earthquake, short- and long-term patterns of hospitalization for IHD changed greatly, but in different ways. Our findings suggest that medical resources for IHD should be distributed dynamically over time after an earthquake. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:203–210)

Embedding mega-events: staging spectacles in changing cities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Roche
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Functional Complex ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Secondary Type

This chapter argues that the ‘spectacle’ of mega-events needs to be understood particularly at the level of host cities, and at that level in both in positive and negative terms and also in short and long-terms time-frames. Negatively events can, in the short-term, create spectacles and controversies in the form of the security they need, and in the long-term can create debts and ‘white elephant’ waste. They can also be understood in more positive terms as short-term performative ‘spectacles’ which are ‘embedded’ in the long-term physical legacies they leave in their host cities. It suggests that there are two main types of mega-event urban legacy. The main type is that of ‘place-making’ buildings and facilities, exemplified by iconic ‘starchitect’ architecture or functional architecture or both. The more secondary type is that of the ‘space-making’ creation or renewal of major green parks and open public areas. The chapter shows that while both Olympic and Expos mega-events have left ‘starchitecture’ legacies, Olympics have traditionally tended to leave more of the ‘functional complex’ type of urban places, and Expos have tended to leave more of the ‘open public space’ and ‘recreational green park’ type urban spaces.

Branding Ideas for the Tokyo Olympics 2020

2017 ◽  
pp. 304-322
Author(s):  
Erica Liu
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Event Tourism ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The City

Tokyo successfully won the bid for the 2020 Olympic Games. When planning for mega event tourism such as the Olympics, cities reorder public spaces and arenas often with a long term vision, a legacy. This vision expresses the role of the event in achieving the desired future and goals of the hosting city. The planning process involves not only animating the city for staged spectacles; but also rebranding the city and managing how tourism is consumed - the planned and unplanned experience of consumption. Leisure motivated event tourists are seeking unique, personal and socially rewarding experiences (Getz, 2010). These experiences may be managed through the context in which people act. By altering the context, people's experience of the event changes; hence the perception of the host city and the Olympics' brand may also change. The author is therefore proposing branding directions to enhance these experiences.

scholarly journals Anxiety and Depression in Patients Hospitalized With Chronic Kidney Disease in Barranquilla Clinics, Colombia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Carmen A. Sierra Llamas ◽  
Rafael E. Donado Castillo ◽  
Gustavo Aroca ◽  
Santos Ángel Depine ◽  
Gladys Gaviria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Research ◽  
The City

The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of anxiety and depression in patients aged between 18 and 70 years, hospitalized with chronic kidney disease in a clinic entity of the city of Barranquilla. The type of research is descriptive, presenting the information through the indicators and statistical tables, the Hospital Scale of Anxiety and Depression of, Zigmond &amp; Smith (1983), which evaluates the detection of depressive and anxious disorders in the non-psychiatric hospital context. The application of the Scale was performed in the hospital entity of the city of Barranquilla to 50 patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. The results they are beneficial in the short term, because they create new research proposals applied to another population group diagnosed with chronic diseases, especially for the evaluation and intervention in the area of health psychology. In the long term, new theories, methods of intervention and evaluation applied to the population of patients with chronic kidney disease will be studied. In the same way, the results show marked trends related to depression, an aspect that is consistent with the deterioration that affects the individual in the course of the disease and also show a positive correlation of the study variables, depression and anxiety disorders in patients with CKD can be due to a symptomatology or consequence of psychological burnout.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 7118-7124
Author(s):  
Mrs. Aparna Lalitkumar Patil Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Production Logistics ◽  
Chain System ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Supply Chain Risks ◽  
The City

In early January 2020, coronavirus outbreak started to build up as a pandemic in the city of Wuhan in China, leading to social, human as well as economic disturbance, leaving no life untouched. COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic impacted the production, logistics as well as the supply chain system in the entire world.  As companies, around the globe are trying to repair their shattered value chains in the short-term and reduce their supply chain risks in the long-term, India also has an exclusive chance to emerge as a business terminus during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Groundwater delivery rate of nitrate and predicted change in nitrate concentration in Blue Lake, South Australia

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Lamontagne
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
Balance Model ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Blue Lake ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The City ◽  
Groundwater Outflow ◽  
Drinking Water Guideline

Blue Lake, the principal water supply for the City of Mount Gambier (South Australia), is contaminated with nitrate (NO3–) from polluted groundwater. Using existing data, a study was undertaken to determine the past load of NO3– from groundwater entering the lake and to forecast future trends in lake NO3– concentration. Groundwater NO3– loads for the 1971–1997 period were estimated with an inverse model, which combined the long-term record for NO3– concentration in the lake with a simple NO3– mass-balance. Model results show that the load of NO3– from groundwater (18–24 metric tons (t) year–1 as N) was by far the largest source to Blue Lake between 1971 and 1997. Sinks for NO3– included pumping withdrawal (10–14 t year–1), in-lake consumption (7–10 t year–1), and groundwater outflow (0–1.8 t year–1). The NO3– concentration in incoming groundwater (4–7 mg N L–1) appears to have increased slowly but steadily during the 1971–1997 period (at a rate varying between 0.037 and 0.070 mg N L–1 year–1). By assuming that the rate of increase in groundwater NO3– concentration will remain constant, a forecast for lakewater NO3– concentration was made for the 1998–2028 period. Lakewater NO3– concentration should increase from the contemporary ~3.5 mg N L–1 to 4 or 5 mg N L–1 by 2028. In the short term (decades), the rate of pumping withdrawal will be the main determinant of NO3– concentration in the lake through its impact on the rate of groundwater inflow and the lake water residence time. Although the drinking water guideline for NO3– (11. 3 mg N L–1) may not be exceeded in the short term (decades), it may be exceeded in the longer term (centuries) as NO3– concentration in the neighbouring aquifer adjusts to the contemporary land use.

scholarly journals NATURE AND THE CITY: A CO-EVOLUTIONARY PROJECT

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samir Younés
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Gaia Theory ◽  
The City

Architects who understand the need to build enduringly are faced with the almost complete absence of international agreements with respect to a planetary ecological project. The coming environmental changes will probably occur long before the small measures that can be implemented by some building industries on a regional level have even the slightest effect. Meanwhile, the health of the planet in positive feedback. Any project that aims for a wise ecological dwelling on this planet needs to consider short-term sustainable measures in comparison with long-term enduring practices. Might schools of thoughts such as traditional architecture, Gaia theory, Earth System Science, deep ecology, eco-feminism, converge on a co-evolutionary partnership between the natural and the human?

scholarly journals COVID19 and the city; from the short term to the long term

2020 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 110066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Keyword(s):  
Short Term ◽  
The City
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