The Legacy of Mega Events, 1st ed. 2020
Urban Transformations and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro
The Latin American Studies Book Series

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This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events. 

The case of Rio de Janeiro is presented as an example of a failing global strategy for urban redevelopment, entrepreneurial urban governance and the realization of mega-events. This book aims to present the real and critical state of the legacies of such mega-events. It shows how instead of the promised economic redemption, Rio is experiencing a severe economic, political and social crisis, handling three observation perspectives: the first is the description of urban transformations and mega events, assessing the contradictions in the model for the intended urban development and taking into account historical factors both at local and national level; the second restricts on neighborhoods as case studies representing an ensign of a neoliberal urban transformation? results; the third links city and citizenship focusing tensions and inconsistencies and opening up a perspective on the importance of fostering the concept of citizenship, including actions, movements and initiatives that express the resistance and struggles around a possible new destination for Rio de Janeiro.

Prof. Luiz Cesar de Quieroz Ribeiro and Dr. Filippo Bignami as General Editors thank Ana Paula Soares Carvalho, Humberto Meza, Niccoló Cuppini and Orlando dos Santos Junior for their contributions as co-editors of this book.

Part. I. Introduction.- Part II. Context.- Chapter 1. The sporting mega-events inside the neoliberal experiment of urban development.- Chapter 2. Rio de Janeiro economic crisis and austerity reponses.- Chapter 3. From the dream of "new middle class" to the new urban poverty.- Chapter 4. The political crisis: urban entrepreneurship without a leader class.- Part III. Facts and reasons of the failures.- Chapter 5. Decomposition of the public security system.- Chapter 6. De-gentrification, urban sprawl and social racism.- Chapter 7. Decomposition of the urban mobility system.- Chapter 8. From the promise of integration to the legacy of exclusion: Policies for favelas in Rio de Janeiro (2007 - 2017).- Chapter 9. Porto Maravilha: The defeat of the real estate-financial model.- Chapter 10. Porto Maravilha: Decomposition of the coalition and repositioning of public agents.- Part IV. Reconstruction of city project. Resistance and new ways.- Chapter 11. The experience of tenement houses as forms of resistance in Downtown.- Chapter 12. Experiments of counter-hegemonic coalitions.- Chapter 13. cultural policies in dispute; spaces of possibilities in front of Porto Maravilha.- Conclusion.

General (Scientific) Editors: Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Filippo Bignami

Co-Editors: Ana Paula Soares Carvalho, Humberto Meza, Niccoló Cuppini and Orlando dos Santos Junior

Luis Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro, Professor of Regional and Urban Planning Institute of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Nacional Coordinator of Science and Technology Nacional Institute Observatorio das Metropoles, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism by the Universiy of São Paulo, USP and Master in Economic and Social Development by the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Coordinates the National Institute of Science and Technology, INCT Observatório das Metrópoles: a research network involving comparative studies in 16 Brazilian metropolises and 100 mains researchers around territory, social cohesion and governance issues. His research area are metropolitan, intrametropolitan dynamics and the national territory, socio-spatial dimension of the exclusion / Integration in the metropolis, Urban governance, citizenship and management of the metropolis. Editor of Cadernos Metrópoles and e-metropolis magazines. 
Prof. Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro previously edited the book "Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro" which was published by Springer in 2017. 

Filippo Bignami holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences. He is senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Department of Economics, Health and Social Sciences (SUPSI-DEASS) - LUCI (Labour, Urbanscape and CItizenship) research area. He has been external scientific consultant for UN-ILO International Labour Organization, project visiting professor at the Asia-Europe Institute, State University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and senior researcher at Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training. His main scientifi
Shows the real an critical state of legacies left by mega-events Presents Rio de Janeiro as an example of how global urban real-estate capitalism fails as a strategy for urban redevelopment Offers alternatives for urban transformation of Rio de Janeiro based on citizenship movements