Editorial: Sport megaevents and the city
Francisco R Klauser
The impact of the World Student Games on Sheffield
P Foley
The professionalisation of urban cultural policies in France: the case of festivals
E Négrier
The World Cup and the national Thing on Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Paul Kingsbury
Vancouver’s promise of the world’s first sustainable Olympic Games
Meg Holden, Julia MacKenzie, Robert VanWynsberghe
Splintering spheres of security: Peter Sloterdijk and the contemporary fortress city
Francisco R Klauser
Development plans versus conservation: explanation of emergent conflicts and state political handling
Evangelia Apostolopoulou, John D Pantis
International urban festivals as a catalyst for governance capacity building
Paul Benneworth, Hugh Dauncey
State dirigisme in megaprojects: governing the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
Martin Müller
Commentary
Pre-Olympic and post-Olympic Barcelona, a 'model' for urban regeneration today?
Maria-Dolors Garcia-Ramon, Abel Albet