1st Edition
Cultural Mega-Events and Heritage Challenges for European Cities
Introduction – Cultural mega-events and heritage: challenges for European cities
Davide Ponzini
1. Short-term gains and long-term challenges to learning from mega-event planning in the city of Genoa
Zachary Mark Jones
2. A mega-event in a small city: community participation, heritage and scale in the case of Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture
Evanthia Dova, Angeliki Sivitanidou, Natia R. Anastasi and Julia Georgi-Nerantzia Tzortzi
3. A heritage-inspired cultural mega-event in a stigmatized city: Hull UK City of Culture 2017
Enrico Tommarchi and Franco Bianchini
4. Cultural events and heritage policy for the Milan Expo 2015: experimental intersections between mega-event and city
Stefano Di Vita
5. Culture and heritage as a means to foster quality of life? The case of Wrocław European Capital of Culture 2016
Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga
6. Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture legacy narrative: a selective heritage?
Tamara West
7. Internationalizing small-sized cities through mega-events: the case of Matera-Basilicata 2019 European Capital of Culture
Marina Rotolo
8. Heritage and cultural mega-events: backgrounds, approaches and challenges
Jacek Purchla
Biography
Davide Ponzini is Full Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has been Visiting Scholar at Yale, Columbia University, TU Munich, and other universities. His research activity focuses on planning theory, urban and cultural policy, and contemporary architecture. His latest book is titled: Transnational Architecture and Urbanism (Routledge 2020).
