Events in the City -- Routledge Advances in Event Research Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- From the City as Stage, to the City as Staged -- The Focus of this Book -- Staging Events in Urban Public Spaces: A Brief History -- Foundations, Approach and Structure -- 2 Urban Public Space -- Introduction -- Urban Space -- Public Space -- Threats to Urban Public Space -- What makes Good Public Space? -- Temporary Urbanism -- Summary -- 3 The Urbanisation of Events -- Introduction -- The Eventisation of Urban Space -- The Urbanisation of Events -- Explanations for these Trends -- Counter Trends -- Summary -- 4 Eventalisation: Events and the Production of Urban Public Space -- Introduction -- Animating Public Space -- Loosening Space: Events as Ways to Loosen Stiff Parks -- Producing Public Spaces -- Material Changes -- Longer Term Effects -- Summary -- 5 Eventification: Events and the Denigration of Urban Public Space -- Introduction -- Commercialisation -- Privatisation -- Securitisation -- Racing in the Streets -- Events and the Physical Denigration of Space -- Temporary or More Permanent Effects? -- Summary -- 6 Using Public Spaces as Events Venues: Greenwich Park becomes an Olympic Park -- Introduction -- The History of Greenwich Park -- Contemporary Status of Greenwich Park -- The Choice of Greenwich Park as an Olympic Venue -- Objections and Opposition -- The Planning Process -- The Events -- Impacts -- Implications -- Summary -- 7 Enclosing Open Space: Event Legacies in the Royal Borough of Greenwich -- Introduction -- Materialising Legacies: Implications for Open Space -- Park Programmes: Improvements or Incursions? -- The Common and the Square: Olympic Woolwich -- Fun Running and Big Running.

Blackheath Events: A Tragedy for the Commons? -- Summary -- 8 Regulation and Resistance -- Introduction -- Regulation -- Resistance -- Summary -- 9 Conclusions -- Introduction -- Time -- Different Events and Different Effects -- Staging the City -- Event Discourses -- Events and the Production of Loose, Open Spaces -- The City as Venue -- Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research -- Final Comments -- References.