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This paper is drawn from an ongoing comparative study of mega-events and urban governance in Cape Town,South Africa,New Delhi,India,and Shanghai,China.In2010 Cape Town will host a number of soccer matches for the World Cup,including one of the semi-finals,New Delhi will host the Commonwealth Games,and Shanghai will host the World Expo.Although these are cultural events of a relatively short duration,each of them is,at the same time,explicitly marketed as an urban development project that will leave a lasting socio-economic legacy.In light of the developmental aspirations and claims made by the proponent of mega-events,it is appropriate to ask for what extent these projects can in fact act as mechanisms of development in cities of the global South,where the urban development challenges are,and will remain,greatest.The question is of particular relevance given that the mega-event represents a market-driven approach to urban development in which a transnational network of private and public actors participate in the shaping of the city.In order to answer this question,the paper focuses on the process of peripheralization and its relationship to mega-event preparations.Mega-event preparations have been linked to the displacement of lower income urban populations from city centers as part of the preparation process.The paper introduces preliminary data from the three sites and engages with the policy and broader urban development implications of this dramatic transformation of the urban landscape.
This paper is drawn from an ongoing comparative study of mega-events and urban governance in Cape Town, South Africa, New Delhi, India, and Shanghai, China.In2010 Cape Town will host a number of soccer matches for the World Cup, including one of the semi-finals, New Delhi will host the Commonwealth Games, and Shanghai will host the World Expo .Although these are cultural events of a relatively short duration, each of them is, at the same time, explicitly marketed as an urban development project that will leave a lasting socio-economic legacy. In light of the developmental aspirations and claims made by the proponent of mega-events, it is appropriate to ask for what extent these projects can in fact act as mechanisms of development in cities of the global. South, where the urban development challenges are, and will remain remain, greatest. The question is of particular relevance given that the mega-event represents a market-driven approach to urban development in which a transnational network of private and publ ic actors participate in the shaping of the city.In order to answer this question, the paper focuses on the process of peripheralization and its relationship to mega-event preparations. Mega-event preparations have been linked to the displacement of lower income urban populations from city centers as part of the preparation process. The paper introduces preliminary data from the three sites and engagement with the policy and broader urban development implications of this dramatic transformation of the urban landscape.