An analysis of the Calgary 2026 Olympic bid plebiscite/referendum held in 2018 adds a new perspective to the literature on bidding by shifting from the cognitive/organizational elements of the bid to the emotive dynamics within the bid city conceptualized as affective urbanism. The socioeconomic and political context and the binary nature of the plebiscite question provide the framework to explain the negative vote. Using the civic discourse of local residents as data for the study, the public emotions created by confusion, fear, and anger are identified, which resulted in two opposing but competitive affective voting options: affirming affectivity and aversive affectivity. A binary reversal made a negative vote into an instrument of power and a positive affirmation of the city’s future.

对2018年举行的卡尔加里2026年奥运会全民投票/全民公投的分析，通过将竞标的认知/组织元素转移到概念化为情感城市主义的竞标城市中的情绪动态，为竞标文献提供了新的视角。全民投票问题的社会经济和政治背景以及二元性质为解释否定投票提供了框架。使用当地居民的公民话语作为研究数据，可以识别由于困惑，恐惧和愤怒而产生的公众情绪，从而产生了两种对立但具有竞争性的情感投票选择：肯定情感和厌恶情感。二进制逆转使权力工具遭到否定投票，并对城市的未来产生了积极肯定。