@article{799930, recid = {799930}, author = {Kowalska, MaƂgorzata.}, title = {Urban politics of a sporting mega event : legitimacy and legacy of Euro 2012 in anthropological perspective /}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,}, address = {Cham, Switzerland :}, pages = {1 online resource.}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This title looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznan, Poland. As the host city of the tournament almost 25 years after Poland's transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy in 1989, the author focuses on how the local myths and traditions of resourcefulness were invoked to embed an entrepreneurial urban strategy.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/799930}, }