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Preface - Introduction - FIRST PART: ANALYSING OLYMPIC MOUNTAIN REGIONS -- 1. The characteristics and the challenges of the Olympic Valtellina mountain region -- 2. The spatial rescaling of Italian mega-events: from big projects to regional regeneration -- 3. The spatial change of Winter Oympics: The analysis of international case studies - SECOND PART: SHAPING THE TRANSITION OF THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAIN REGION -- 4. Sports as well-being practice. The diversification of tourism through the integration of sport, wellness and health -- 5. Culture as trans-scalar encounter. The increase of livebility through the integration of landscape and services -- 6. Transport solution for alternative mobility and accessibility. A sustainable and feasible approach -- 7. Governance and planning: from complexity and contradictions to multi-level and trans-border approaches - THIRD PART: LEARNINGS AND CONCLUSION. THE FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR MEGA-EVENTS IN REMOTE AREAS -- 8. Through and beyond mega-events. Scenariosand prospects from cities to mountain regions.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Mega-Events and Legacies: A Tradition of Studies Stefano Di Vita -- Abstract -- 1.1 Outlining an International Literature Review -- 1.2 Legacies: Opportunities and Risks -- 1.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 The Spatial Projects of the Expo 2015 and the Post-Event: The Relationship with Milan's Urban Change Before, During, and After the Crisis -- Abstract -- 2.1 Expo and Milan: A Successful Relationship? -- 2.2 The Urban Change of Milan Over the Last Decade (2006-2016) -- 2.3 From Candidature to Celebration: The Development of the Expo Program -- 2.4 The Spatial Projects of the Expo Site -- 2.5 The Material Legacies: Toward a Knowledge and Research-Oriented Hub? -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 2.7 Images -- References -- Chapter 3 The Planning and Governance of the Expo 2015 and the Post-Event: The Growth of a New Awareness-Overcoming the State of Exception Matteo Basso and Stefano Di Vita -- Abstract -- 3.1 Extraordinary Planning and Governance of Mega-Events and the Italian Way to Their Implementation -- 3.2 From Candidature to Celebration: Planning and Governing the Expo 2015 -- 3.3 The Immaterial Legacies: Planning and Governing the Post-Expo 2015 -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 3.5 Images -- References -- Chapter 4 From the Post-Expo 2015 to an Urban Agenda for Milan Corinna Morandi -- Abstract -- 4.1 Ambiguous Relationships Between the Event and the City -- 4.2 Regeneration of Urban Peripheries -- 4.3 Innovation in the Greater Milan Knowledge System -- 4.4 Exploitation of Regional Polycentrism and Infrastructural Networks and Nodes -- 4.5 Exploitation of Expertise in Governance and Networking -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Which Milan? Setting the scene for reflecting urban decline, resilience, and change -- 2 Urban regionalization and metropolitan resurgence: discontinuity and persistence of a spatial dialectic -- 3 The attractiveness of Milan and the spatial patterns of international firms -- 4 Creative production and urban regeneration in Milan -- 5 Sharing economy: makerspaces, co-working spaces, hybrid workplaces, and new social practices -- 6 Forms of urban change: nodes of knowledge-based networks as drivers of new metropolitan patterns in Southern Milan -- 7 Urban change and geographies of production in North- East Milan -- 8 Urban change and innovation of functions and productions in the north-western transect of the Milan urban region -- 9 Territorial infrastructures and new production places -- 10 The last cycle of Milan urban policies and the prospects for a new urban agenda -- Index

Preface -- Introduction. Digital technologies, and innovation of works and workplaces -- First Part – Phenomena -- 1. Third places for work: A comprehensive review of the literature on coworking spaces and makerspaces. Mina Akhavan -- 2. The emergence and spread of new collaborative makerspaces: The features of FabLabs in Europe within a global trend. Cecilia Manzo -- 3. The rise of the worldwide phenomenon of coworking spaces: Main patterns and future trends. Mina Akhavan, Vieri Calogero, Ilaria Mariotti -- 4. Exploring new workplaces with social network analysis. Fabio Manfredini, Stefano Saloriani -- Second Part – Actors -- 5. Coworkers and their business relations in localized settings. Veronique Schutjens -- 6. Makers as social innovators. Marianna D'Ovidio -- Third Part – Places -- 7. Situating the new sharing economy: 'Regional geographies' of Greater Seattle's coworking facilities. Yonn Dierwechter -- 8. Detroit after the Rustbelt: Digital innovation and economic regeneration in America's Midwest. Mark Wilson, Eva Kassens-Noor -- 9. Work sprawl: Knowledge work, digitization, and the changing relationship between activity and the city in Ontario. Filipa Pajević, Richard Shearmur -- 10. The urbanity of coworking spaces in France: The case of the Loire Valley Region. Divya Leducq, Christophe Demazière -- 11. Urban centrality in the new geography of innovation: Coworking spaces in London and Rome. Stefania Fiorentino, Nicola Livingstone -- 12. Coworking spaces in Italy: Location patterns and urban effects. Ilaria Mariotti -- 13. Observing the evolution of Milan makerspaces: Trajectories for taking roots process in close and far environments. Corinna Morandi -- Fourth Part – Agenda -- 14. What policies after the metamorphosis of workplaces? The case of urban small scale production. Simonetta Armondi -- 15. Clustering and classifying innovative workplaces: Which demands for urban and regional planning? Stefano Di Vita -- Conclusion and further research. Coworking spaces, makerspace, and the connections to territorial and productive ecosystems -- References.