CRP 3850/6690: Mega-Events: Home

Welcome to the World Expos and Olympic Games: Mega‐events and City Media Course Guide! This library guide provides resources for Dr. Jennifer Minner's CRP 3853/6690 special topics course exploring effects of Mega-events on the production of spaces, legacies, and public imagination. 

Course Objectives are...

• Gaining an understanding of the history of World Expos and Olympic Games and how they relate to city imaginaries, public life, urban space, and national and city branding.   
• Learning about urban theories and planning and preservation practices related to mega‐event planning.   
• Appreciating and analyzing media, including films made for, about, or produced as resistance to mega‐events and media coverage and how this reflects city life and social relations.   
• Gaining a nuanced and in‐depth understanding of the challenges and opportunities in preserving, interpreting, and adapting urban spaces at former Expo and Olympics sites. 
• Research methods related to social impacts of and approaches to tourism, recreation and leisure, public history, and media studies.

This guide was created by:

Louisa Tornari, Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant

Jo Klein, Social Science Research and Spatial Data Librarian

Martha Walker, Architecture Librarian & Coordinator of Collections