Legacy of Mega Events

General (Scientific) Editors: Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Filippo BignamiCo-Editors: Ana Paula Soares Carvalho, Humberto Meza, Niccoló Cuppini and Orlando dos Santos JuniorLuis 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 scientificinterest and expertise is in citizenship social and political theories and applied studies on citizenship policies and education. Ana Paula Soares Carvalho is assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and coordinates the Social Sciences project of PUC-Rio's Institutional Program for Teaching Initiation Scholarships, PIBID. Has experience in the areas of Urban Sociology, Sociology of Law and Political Sociology and Methodology and Practice of Sociology Teaching. She holds a PhD in in Sociology from the Institute of Social and Political Studies, IESP-UERJ and master's degree in Sociology from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro. Humberto Meza is researcher in the National Institute of Science and Technology, INCT Observatório das Metrópoles within the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning and Research (IPPUR) of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He holds a PhD in Political Science by the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in the field research of Collective Action, Social Movements and the interaction with political institutions. Was researcher at the Brazilian Research Center (CEBRAP) in Political Participation and Collective Action.Niccolò Cuppini is researcher at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland in the LUCI (Labour, Urbanscape and CItizenship) research area. His researches connect urban studies, history of political thought and critical logistics. He is in the editorial board of Scienza&Politica. He is part of the Into the Black Box research group, he collaborates with the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory and he is working in many international research projects in Europa, Africa and Latin America.Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000) and master in Urban Planning by the same university. He’s currently Director and professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Research Institute of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPPUR/UFRJ). He also is a researcher of the Observatorio das Metropoles. His research experience is around Sociology, focusing on Urban Sociology, acting in the following issues: democracy, citizenship, urban planning, social participation and public management.

• 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.