Grandi eventi e ricomposizione dello spazio urbano: per un’agenda di ricerca in una prospettiva geografica

The events are perceived as opportunities to raise or place on the market a good natural or cultural condition that this is able to be an ideal setting for the event. An event may also be called “Mega” not so much for its size or the amount of visitors that fails to attract as for its wide international spread through the press, radio, television and the Internet. The events have consequences, positive or negative, on the urban fabric. The contribution of this paper is to highlight, from the point of view of the qualitative aspects, the role of the Universal Exhibitions in the urban context that one of the mega events has a long tradition and a location variable and that, instead, the most recent of the “capital of the culture. “