The article is the editorial of the issue n. 155 of “Urbanistica”, the main Italian journal of urban and regional planning in Italy. Despite a robust (if not repetitive) debate regarding planning for mega-events and the greater competencies being acquired at the international level on this topic, urban planning practice continues to struggle with creating efficient and high-quality ‘post-events’. Focusing on the relationship between international mega-events and urban/territorial transformations, the article underlines the two major questions already seem to be widely shared in the rhetoric of urban debate, social science and economics as well as policymakers calling into question the propelling effectiveness of mega-events with respect to territorial transformation and the centrality of what happens after the great events. Secondly, it shortly presents: the recent discussion of the outcomes and legacy of the Universal Exposition held in Milan in 2015; as assessment of the European Capital of Culture, after three decades of this program; and the forty years of urban planning in Barcelona, the best known example of urban transformation vis-a-vis events. Finally, it reflects within the urban planning discourse by applying historian Alexander Geppert’s concept of “isomorphous chronotopes of transient character”. This definition helps us to think great events as temporary use in the palimpsest city.

Grandi eventi banco di prova per città palinsesto / Major events as a sounding board for the palimpsest city

M. Mareggi
2016-01-01

Abstract

The article is the editorial of the issue n. 155 of “Urbanistica”, the main Italian journal of urban and regional planning in Italy. Despite a robust (if not repetitive) debate regarding planning for mega-events and the greater competencies being acquired at the international level on this topic, urban planning practice continues to struggle with creating efficient and high-quality ‘post-events’. Focusing on the relationship between international mega-events and urban/territorial transformations, the article underlines the two major questions already seem to be widely shared in the rhetoric of urban debate, social science and economics as well as policymakers calling into question the propelling effectiveness of mega-events with respect to territorial transformation and the centrality of what happens after the great events. Secondly, it shortly presents: the recent discussion of the outcomes and legacy of the Universal Exposition held in Milan in 2015; as assessment of the European Capital of Culture, after three decades of this program; and the forty years of urban planning in Barcelona, the best known example of urban transformation vis-a-vis events. Finally, it reflects within the urban planning discourse by applying historian Alexander Geppert’s concept of “isomorphous chronotopes of transient character”. This definition helps us to think great events as temporary use in the palimpsest city.
2016
mega-events, chronotopes of transient charater
mega-eventi, cronotopi di carattere transitivo
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