Abstract
Each city undergoes lasting major changes when staging a mega-event, thus some stakeholders benefit while others lose. In view of the immense costs of such events, the creation of positive legacies becomes ever more important. This chapter brings the different perspectives of legacy into one framework. After distinguishing the terms sustainability, impact and leveraging from legacy, the framework will be outlined. It contains the detection of legacy (WHAT), then the perspectives of how legacy can be seen by different stakeholders (WHO), followed by the reflection on the time and duration a legacy occurs (WHEN), and ending with a judgement on whether the effect is positive or negative (HOW). Examples from FIFA World Cups and Olympics will help to illustrate the framework.
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Preuss, H. (2014). ‘Legacy’ Revisited. In: Grix, J. (eds) Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137371188_3
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