Urban Reimaging, Heritage and the Making of a World-class City: The Commonwealth Walkway as Mega-event Legacy Project

IF 0.8 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Heritage and Society Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/2159032X.2022.2127177

Zelmarie Cantillon

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ABSTRACT Sport mega-events have the capacity to transform host cities both materially and symbolically. This article explores the urban reimaging potentials of mega-event legacies through a case study of the 2018 Commonwealth Games held on the Gold Coast, Australia. For the Gold Coast, one of the desired outcomes of the Commonwealth Games and its legacies was to aid in reorienting the city’s identity from a beachside resort to a mature, sophisticated, world-class city. Drawing on observational fieldwork and literature research, the article considers a particular legacy project – the Commonwealth Walkway, a self-guided heritage walk – to analyze how heritage initiatives factor into strategies for urban reimaging. The article finds that although the Commonwealth Walkway may enhance a sense of continuity in a city usually marked by impermanence, its sanitized, celebratory approach to the city’s colonial past and present undermines both claims of sophistication and intended legacies for social justice.

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城市重建、遗产和世界级城市的建设:英联邦步道作为大型事件遗产项目

大型体育赛事有能力在物质上和象征上改变主办城市。本文通过对2018年在澳大利亚黄金海岸举行的英联邦运动会的案例研究，探讨了大型赛事遗产的城市重塑潜力。对于黄金海岸来说，英联邦运动会及其遗产的理想成果之一是帮助重新定位城市的身份，从海滨度假胜地转变为成熟、精致、世界级的城市。通过实地观察和文献研究，本文考虑了一个特殊的遗产项目——英联邦步道，一个自我引导的遗产步道——来分析遗产倡议如何影响城市重新形象的战略。文章发现，虽然英联邦步道可能会增强一个城市的连续性，通常以无常为标志，但它对城市殖民历史和现在的净化和庆祝方式破坏了复杂的主张和社会正义的预期遗产。

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Heritage and Society HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Heritage & Society is a global, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholarly, professional, and community reflection on the cultural, political, and economic impacts of heritage on contemporary society. We seek to examine the current social roles of collective memory, historic preservation, cultural resource management, public interpretation, cultural preservation and revitalization, sites of conscience, diasporic heritage, education, legal/legislative developments, cultural heritage ethics, and central heritage concepts such as authenticity, significance, and value. The journal provides an engaging forum about tangible and intangible heritage for those who work with international and governmental organizations, academic institutions, private heritage consulting and CRM firms, and local, associated, and indigenous communities. With a special emphasis on social science approaches and an international perspective, the journal will facilitate lively, critical discussion and dissemination of practical data among heritage professionals, planners, policymakers, and community leaders.