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Sports Mega-Events and Urban Legacies

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The dispute to host mega-events, justified by their alleged benefits to the economic development of cities, is associated with the phenomenon of urban entrepreneurialism. The City Hall of Porto Alegre saw in the 2014 FIFA World Cup an opportunity to compete with other cities for investments in urban infrastructure and mobility projects, tourism and the modernisation of public management, and spared no effort to achieve this aim. However, out of the 18 projects proposed, only six were ready by the time of the World Cup, nine are not expected to be completed soon and three have not even started. This chapter discusses the disruption of the territory of the city of Porto Alegre and the weakening of its planning bodies as a result of hosting the World Cup.

According to Article 5 of the Act that established the secretariat, ‘the essential aim of GADES is to raise external funding to increase the investment capacity of the administration of the city of Porto Alegre by articulating and stimulating public or private partnership to make special projects feasible (Porto Alegre 2012: 2). GADES became the sector responsible for special projects, such as Cais Mauá and the Revitalização da Orla do Guaíba.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Manufacturing Industry Association of Rio Grande do Sul.

  2. 2.

    The contract between the municipality and private transport companies expired more than two decades ago, but they are still running the lines.

  3. 3.

    See https://pt-br.facebook.com/pages/Bloco-de-Luta-pelo-Transporte-P%C3%BAblico/488875294508389 (accessed 15 August 2016).

  4. 4.

    The current Grêmio administration has been trying to make an agreement with OAS for several months to buy the Arena; see, for example, http://www.correiodopovo.com.br/Esportes/545630/Sinais-de-nova-negociacao-entre-OAS-e-Grêmio (accessed 15 August 2016).

  5. 5.

    Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank.

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    The projects have not yet started, although the docks have been closed to the public since September 2014; see http://www.sul21.com.br/jornal/arquiteta-apresenta-modelo-alternativo-ao-projeto-de-revitalizacao-do-cais-maua (accessed 15 August 2016). In the case of the riverfront, no offers were presented in more than one tender; see http://zh.clicrbs.com.br/rs/porto-alegre/noticia/2015/03/licitacao-para-revitalizar-a-orla-do-guaiba-deve-ter-o-preco-aumentado-4713033.html (accessed 15 August 2016).

  7. 7.

    Secretariat for the Development and Special Matters.

  8. 8.

    According to Article 5 of the Act that established the secretariat, ‘the essential aim of GADES is to raise external funding to increase the investment capacity of the administration of the city of Porto Alegre by articulating and stimulating public or private partnership to make special projects feasible (Porto Alegre 2012: 2). GADES became the sector responsible for special projects, such as Cais Mauá and the Revitalização da Orla do Guaíba.

  9. 9.

    Jaime Lerner is a Brazilian architect, urban planner and politician. He was the Mayor of Curitiba and the Governor of the State of Paraná in southern Brazil. He was President of the International Union of Architects from 2002 to 2005 and has won several international awards.

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  1. Departamento de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    João Farias Rovati

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Clarice Misoczky de Oliveira MSc

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  1. Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Eduardo Alberto Cusce Nobre

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Rovati, J.F., de Oliveira, C.M. (2017). Porto Alegre. In: Nobre, E. (eds) Sports Mega-Events and Urban Legacies. Mega Event Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44012-5_5

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