Foreword. Mega events, urban transformations and social citizenship / Catherine Mitchell
Introduction. Mega-events as a logic : urban transformation and extended understanding of citizenship / Filippo Bignami, Niccolò Cuppini and Naomi C. Hanakata
What makes an event a mega-event? Definitions and sizes / Martin Müller and David Gogishvili
Flows, circulations, accumulations : theorizing mega-events / Christopher Gaffney
Mega-events and impact on social citizenship / Deepa Kylasam Iyer and Francis Kuriakose
A critical review of urban mega interventions as trendsetters of urban development practice / Naomi C. Hanakata
The evolution of Olympic governance / Jean-Loup Chappelet
Mega-events and other disasters. Some evidence from Italy / Samantha Cenere and Alberto Vanolo
Impact and legacy of mega-events : the Young Olympics Games 2018 in Buenos Aires. The case of Comuna 8 / Maura Brighenti, Karina Bidaseca, Bárbara Catalano and Mariana Gómez Schettini
The legacies of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia : three facets of mega-events' biopolitics / Andrey Makarychev
Urban impacts of second-tier mega-events in the Global East : the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi and Baku / David Gogishvili and Suzanne Harris-Brandts
The COP22 in the city of Marrakech : a catalyst for sustainable urban transformation? / Mounia Slighoua, Sanae Kasmi, Abderrahman Tenkoul and Soumia Guennoun
Time, democracy, social and environmental justice in the urban fabrication of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. What the mobilisation of the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis reveals / Marianna Kontos
From Tokyo 1964 to Tokyo 2020 : urban, social transformation and recovery / Devena Haggis, Chungmi Lee and Mihoko Takahashi
The legacy of the politics of mega-events in Rio de Janeiro : the right to the city and the struggles over urban citizenship / Arturo di Bella
"Built to host"? Built for whom? The LA2028 Olympics and urban exclusions / Cerianne Robertson
Mega-events as game changers for sustainable transitions and urban citizenship development : Beijing from 2008 to 2022 / Lei Zhang and Su Ming Ming.