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Planning Olympic Legacies: Transport Dreams and Urban Realities

Autor Eva Kassens-Noor
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 apr 2012
When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban agendas
In fact, transport dreams to stage the "perfect games" of the International Olympic Committee and the governments of the host cities have lead to urban realities that significantly differ from the development path the city had set out to accomplish before winning the Olympic bid. Ultimately it is precisely the IOC’s influence – and the city’s foresight and sophistication (or lack thereof) in coping with it – that determines whether years after the Games there are legacies benefitting the former hosts.
The text is supported by revealing interviews from lead host city planners and key documents, which highlight striking discrepancies between media broadcasts and the internal communications between the IOC and host city governments. It focuses on the inside story of the urban and transport change process undergone by four cities (Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, and Athens) that staged the Olympics and forecasts London and Rio de Janeiro’s urban trajectories. The final chapter advises cities on how to leverage the Olympic opportunity to advance their long-run urban strategic plans and interests while fulfilling the International Olympic Committee’s fundamental requirements.
This is a uniquely positioned look at why Olympic cities have – or do not have – the transport and urban legacies they had wished for. The book will be of interest to planners, government agencies and those involved in organizing future Games.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415689595
ISBN-10: 0415689597
Pagini: 154
Ilustrații: 6 tables and 11 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. The Olympic Games: an Ephemeral Opportunity for Cities  2. The IOC as a Powerful Stakeholder in the Planning Process  3. Planning for the 1992 Olympics and Barcelona’s Urban Legacy   4. Planning for the 1996 Olympics and Atlanta’s Urban Legacy  5. Planning for the 2000 Olympics and Sydney’s Urban Legacy  6. Planning for the 2004 Olympics And Athens’ Urban Legacy  7. The Prospect of a Legacy for London 2012 and Rio De Janeiro 2016  8. Transport Dreams and Urban Realities

Recenzii

"For any city with Olympic dreams, there is lots of must-read informtion in a short new book by Eva Kassens-Noor of Michigan State University" - Planning

Descriere

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban agendas