PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION SOCIAL AND SPATIAL CONTEXT FOR THE 2014 WORLD CUP Imagine the following scenario. A year before construction began on any of the World Cup stadiums, you were employed as an analyst by an international pub- lic relations and management firm that was hired by FIFA to help address the bad press that the World Cup was receiving in Brazil. FIFA determined that they could schedule all of the necessary matches using only ten stadiums, and not the twelve that were originally planned. Based upon this realization, FIFA asked your firm to produce a report with two key components. First, recommend two stadiums to be removed from the construction plans. Your recommendation should be based on projected construction costs and long-term usage pros- pects. Second, recommend two social service or infrastructure programs that the newly freed money could be used to establish or support. You do not need to be overly specific regarding the program's operational details, but you should recommend a general area of need (e.g. health services, employment training, school improvements) and the state or states where those programs are most needed. Which stadiums would you cut from the plan? What programs would you recommend? Where would you implement them?

ONAL APPLICATION Imagine the following scenario. A year before construction began on any of the World Cup stadiums, you were employed as an analyst by an intemational public relations and management firm that was hired by FIFA to help address the bad press that the World Cup was receiving in Brazil. FIFA determined that they could schedule all of the necessary matches using only ten stadiums, and not the twelve that were originally planned. Based upon this realization, FIFA asked your firm to produce a report with two key components. First, recommend two stadiums to be removed from the construction plans. Your recommendation should be based on projected construction costs and long-term usage prospects. Second, recommend two social service or infrastructure programs that the newly freed money could be used to establish or support. You do not need to be overly specific regarding the program's operational details, but you should recommend a general area of need (e.g. health services, employment training. school improvements) and the state or states where those programs are most needed. Which stadiums would you cut from the plan? What programs would you recommend? Where would you implement them