Mega-events: Urban spectaculars and globalization

International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 188-197

  Short, John Rennie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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