Olympic Facilities and Authoritarian Regimes: A Case Study of Sochi 2014

摘要: The effort to balance social and economic interests has always been a critical issue for the post-Games usage of Olympic venues. planning, construction but also selection facility is socioeconomic most notably political since it concerns how public inherits capital goods assets from mega-events. Using an instrumental case study approach this explores 2014 Sochi Games critically examine authoritarian regime deals with its facilities pre post-Games, provides useful insights regarding interrelationship between motivation hosting, architectural philosophy, costs post-use. Data collected through literature review; published academic studies were principal source official reports releases, conference minutes proceedings, directives guidelines bodies relevant news coverage additionally used. According analysis mega-events in non-democratic settings are predominantly used as landmarks strategic importance, offering legitimatization megalomaniac developmental agendas, which result creation large-scale more symbolic than functional qualities. Furthermore, states mechanisms accountability institutional constraints weaker (or absent) instances corruption extensive cost overruns bound occur.