Haan, Sebastiën (2021) Impacts of Mega-events: How can the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held in Rotterdam-Zuid, accelerate existing urban renewal projects in its deprived neighborhoods? Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Over the past few decades, there has been an increasing use of mega-events as a tool for urban transformation to generate a range of different outcomes in cities and regions. After the Netherlands won the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Israel in 2019, it became known that the 65th ESC would be hosted in Rotterdam. As Rotterdam-Zuid is frequently seen as a shabby and disadvantaged district of Rotterdam which contains many poor households of the Netherlands, this research aims to investigate how the ESC can positively influence the pace of existing urban renewal projects (as included in the NPRZ) in Rotterdam-Zuid to improve its backlog. This study uses a qualitative approach that allows for an in-depth analysis of participants’ perceptions of the situation with the help of semi-structured interviews. According to the results it was found that due to the ongoing (long-term) area development, the design of the surrounding environment of Ahoy, the restricting measures of the corona pandemic and lack of generating fiscal transfers, the ESC has little to no influence on existing urban renewal projects or other spatial projects in Rotterdam-Zuid.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Kuper, B.J. and Dijk, T. van |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2021 14:09 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Aug 2021 14:09 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3668 |
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