Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro - The Legacy of Mega Events: Urban Transformations and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro

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

This book is originated from the action research project titled Urban Regimes and Citizenship: A Case Study for an Innovative Approach carried out by the National Institute of Technology and Science (INCT)/Observatrio das Metrpoles, headquartered in the Urban and Regional Planning and Research Institute (IPPUR) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Department of Economics, Health and Social Sciences (DEASS). Pontifcia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) as well actively cooperated in the activities.

The project, started in the end of 2017 with a 2-year duration, is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) on the Swiss side and by Fundao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Faperj) (Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientfico e Tecnolgico (CNPq) (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) on the Brazilian side.

The project accomplished its activities with a methodology of action research, allowing a fruitful combination of outcomes, encompassing scientific articles, a module of citizenship education tested in a Rio de Janeiro secondary school, quantitative and qualitative surveys and a video firstly having an educational scope, but as well popular, social and political purposes, available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5qiR2bwXl0&t=9s .

Rio de Janeiro was the scenario where in the decade 20062016 a wave of mega events (FIFA World Cup, Olympic Games, Young Olympics, and others) took place. Now, these glittering events are over, and the big, unexplored, question is: what is happening to the metropolis in consequence of such period? Or in other words, what is the legacy of these mega events for the city?

Much attention has been devoted to the process of planning, hosting, and organizing these events. Studies and analyses exist on the pre-mega events, but the post-mega events have not yet been probed exhaustively. A multidisciplinary glance at the legacy of the wave of a decade of mega events is the gap that this book aims to bridge in the case of Rio de Janeiro. This collective work, being both an outcome of the above-described project and a wider reflection done by academics in a multidisciplinary approach, aims to identify the key drivers of urban evolution in relation to the mega events hosted in Rio in the last decade, and to enlighten the framework and the impact that emerged after them. The main theories adopted in the project originating this book are urban regimes (Savitch and Kantor 2002) and citizenship (Isin 2008; Sassen 2005; Walzer 1989; Dagger 1997; Rawls 2005), aiming to deepen the evolution of the urban transformation in the city featuring the decade of mega events, linked with key aspects of citizenship, such as social and political conditions hampering or enabling processes of inclusion and exclusion, with a specific glance at the role of citizenship education.