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INI332: Cities and Mega-Events

Other sources

Popular media

ProQuest Newsstand
- Covers many major American & other international newspapers
Canadian Newsstand
- Covers major Canadian newspapers (e.g. Star, Globe & National Post) as well as select regional newspapers (e.g. Vancouver Sun)

Factiva This link opens in a new window
- Factiva provides access to more than 36,000 sources such as newspapers, journals, magazines, television and radio transcripts, and photos from almost 200 countries
- Video tutorial on how to use Factiva

Newspapers Research Guide, University of Toronto Libraries
- Your guide to national, international & historical newspaper collections at U of T
Finding audio visual material, Media Commons, University of Toronto Libraries
- Helpful guide to searching the Catalogue for video resources at U of T
- U of T's guide to freely available online video resources

Primary sources

For some primary sources on mega-events, including speeches, press releases, documents like bid proposals & videos, visit the website of your topic mega-event.

For more past successful & unsuccessful mega-event bid proposal websites, try searching the Internet Archive

You may also wish to try governmental & intergovernmental agency resources.

Try a Google Custom Search of their websites
Use the drop down menu to select your area of interest
From the search results, select the level of government to narrow your results

Main website for the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- IOC documents, reports, studies, and publications: includes select speeches & planning documents
Expo (World Fair) Museum
Expo Bids
FIFA official documents
Finding government publications: Where to start?, Research guide

International urban statistics

United Nations, Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs
International urban agglomeration information, 1950+.

Canadian urban statistics

Canadian Census Analyser
The census analyser allows you to choose different statistical variables together. Results can be downloaded to Excel for further analysis.
Other StatsCan Tables
Odesi
A web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard.
How to cite Statistics Canada products

U.S. urban statistics

Go to the US Census Bureau's States & Local Areas resources
Choose a topic from the left side of the page
Download one of the Excel workbooks/PDFs from the Metropolitan Areas or Cities section

NOTE: some topics don't feature data sets for metropolitan areas or cities