The Game of Urban Regeneration

»This is an important book that should be read by anyone interested in how large-scale urban interventions change the material and political shape of our cities. Studying how communities and the social spaces around major events are affected ‒ often in unexpected ways ‒ by them, Weber-Newth illuminates much about the characteristic unevenness around such ›megaevents‹.«
(Paul Jones, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, Liverpool University)

»Francesca Weber-Newth's book provides a welcome and important addition to the existing critical urban studies' literature on contemporary regeneration. The book offers an adroit, rich and lively Bourdieusian-inspired deconstruction of ›culture‹ and ›community‹ in relation to London's 2012 Olympic Games and Berlin's Mediaspree.« 
(Professor Paul Watt, Birkbeck, University of London)