GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Community Policing, Cruise Ship, Commodification
5 Dec 2012
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2007 pan american games: 85,000 capacity: mega event development strategy, added seats, now has a hierarchy of seats used to be equal everywhere. Privatization: conforming to fifa standards, rules are being set by an outside agency. Public investment, private gain: typically happens with mega-events, government takes out huge loans and private companies usually benefit. Democracy: big events lead to fast track decisions, by pass all rules, emergency fashion, against the interest of the majority. Job creation: often is a boom in jobs but not everything that is promised, informal sector loses jobs, the olympics and fifa have rights to certain words, tourism revenue tends to go down during the olympics. White elephants: must have a very specific set of venues, cycling, fencing, these never get used again. 4 zones: deodoro zones, poor area of town, development , maracana zone, capacabana zone, barra zone, main site, a huge place of gentrification, popular place to live.
