Davide Ponzini

Politecnico di Milano, DAStU - Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Faculty Member

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Davide Ponzini is Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano. His research activity focuses on urban and cultural policy, heritage preservation and planning theory. He has been visiting researcher Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Sciences Po, Paris. In 2017 he was Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich. He has led a number of international research projects. He has been an advisor of both cultural policy and urban planning to local and national governments and to other public and private entities. He is the author of the book: Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Cities Plan, Transform, and Learn (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor (with Harvey Molotch) of: The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress (New York University Press, 2019).
Address: Milan, Lombardia, Italy

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Cultural mega-events in heritage-rich cities: Insights from the European Capital of Culture and broader policy perspectives

CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 2021

The European Capital of Culture (ECoC) is a well-known and long-standing European policy that ann... more The European Capital of Culture (ECoC) is a well-known and long-standing European policy that annually awards the title of Capital to two or more cities that deliver cultural initiatives throughout one year of celebrations. The programme has been hosted by over 60 cities throughout Europe during the last 35 years. Some host cities have used the ECoC to develop large projects that contribute to urban rebranding and regeneration (e.g. the facilities on the new waterfront of Marseille, made for the 2013 ECoC) and, more frequently, projects that adapt existing facilities and places, or smaller scale and less spectacular interventions in the city fabric. As a wide variety of differing cities have hosted the event, the ECoC has contributed to urban transformations at different scales, often with particular reference to historic and heritage-rich settings, but also brings about long-term effects in terms of cultural facilities and venues, tourism appeal and even the intangible heritage narratives attached to places. Drawing on the HOMEE Research Project and on recent publications by the authors, this paper discusses the range of large-to-small-scale planning, the (re)generation of cultural facilities and places in historic cities and heritagerich areas to accommodate cultural mega-events and the effects they have on host cities over time. In the conclusions, the paper expands beyond the ECoC (in the direction of sport mega-events) to consider and highlight forthcoming challenges for urban policy-making and the planning of mega-events in Europe. 3

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