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Mapping the Olympic growth machine

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  • Björn Surborg
  • Rob VanWynsberghe
  • Elvin Wyly

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Theories of growth machines and urban regimes have informed the study of urban political economy for more than three decades, but these theories remain focused on intra‐urban processes. Using a case study of the bidding process and the planning of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, we explore the transnational dimensions of the urban growth machine and explore common aspects between the growth machine and regime theory literature and the literatures on the entrepreneurial city and transnational urban policy transfers. Through its evolving networks with other urban regimes, Vancouver’s growth machine provides a ready forum in which local elites can acquire specialized knowledge on new urban entrepreneurial strategies elsewhere. Actors situated in different parts of the local growth machine are establishing various connections with urban regimes in other cities, in what is best understood as a nascent growth machine diaspora. Growth machine and regime theories remain valid in their basic conceptualization and maintain their strength through their adaptability to various contexts, but can be enriched by analyses of policy circuits, travelling theories and learning networks.

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  • Björn Surborg & Rob VanWynsberghe & Elvin Wyly, 2008. "Mapping the Olympic growth machine," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(3), pages 341-355, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:341-355
    DOI: 10.1080/13604810802478920
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    1. John Lauermann & Anne Vogelpohl, 2017. "Fragile growth coalitions or powerful contestations? Cancelled Olympic bids in Boston and Hamburg," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(8), pages 1887-1904, August.
    2. Sven Daniel Wolfe, 2023. "Building a better host city? Reforming and contesting the Olympics in Paris 2024," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(2), pages 257-273, March.
    3. John Lauermann, 2016. "Temporary projects, durable outcomes: Urban development through failed Olympic bids?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(9), pages 1885-1901, July.
    4. John Lauermann, 2014. "Competition through Interurban Policy Making: Bidding to Host Megaevents as Entrepreneurial Networking," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(11), pages 2638-2653, November.
    5. Perkins, Richard, 2021. "Governing for growth: standards, emergent markets and the lenient zone of qualification for green bonds," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 107483, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    6. Matthias Fleischer & Maximilian Fuhrmann & Christoph Haferburg & Fred Krüger, 2013. "“Festivalisation” of Urban Governance in South African Cities: Framing the Urban Social Sustainability of Mega-Event Driven Development from Below," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 5(12), pages 1-24, December.
    7. Andrea Gibbons & Nick Wolff, 2012. "Introduction: Re-writing London and the Olympic City: Critical implications of 'Faster, Higher, Stronger'," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 439-445, August.

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