Olympic Cities

City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896 - 2032
4. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-28709-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 246 mm x 174 mm, Gewicht: 1318 g

Reihe: Planning, History and Environment Series

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and much enlarged fourth edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews of the urban legacy of the four component Olympic festivals: the Summer Games; Winter Games; Cultural Olympiads; and the Paralympics. The second part comprises systematic surveys of six key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics and Paralympics: finance; sustainability; the creation of Olympic Villages; security; urban regeneration; and tourism. The final part consists of ten chronologically arranged portraits of host cities from 1960 to 2032, with complete coverage of the Summer Games of the twenty-first century.

As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics, with associated issues of democratic accountability and legacy, continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading for a wide audience. This will include not just urban and sports historians, urban geographers, event managers, and city planners, but also anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events and concerned with building a better understanding of the relationship between cities, sport, and culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gold, John

Gold, Margaret M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

The Contributors

List of Acronyms

1 Introduction John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold

Part I The Olympic Festivals

2 The Summer Olympics, 1896–2020  John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold

3 The Winter Olympics, 1924–2022  Stephen Essex

4 The Cultural Olympiads  Beatriz García

5 The Paralympic Games  John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold

Part II Planning and Management

6 Olympic Finance  Holger Preuss

7 Olympic Sustainability  John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold

8 Olympic Villages  Tony Sainsbury

9 Security and the Threat of Terrorism  Jon Coaffee and Pete Fussey

10 Urban Regeneration  Andrew Smith

11 Olympic Tourism  Mike Weed

Part III City Portraits

12 Rome 1960  Giuseppe Telesca

13 Sydney 2000  Robert Freestone

14 Athens 2004  Margaret M. Gold

15 Beijing 2008  Ian G. Cook, Stephen Miles and Giorgos Chatzinakos

16 London 2012  Graeme Evans and Özlem Tasci-Edizel

17 Rio de Janeiro 2016  Gabriel Silvestre and Erik Omens de Melo

18 Tokyo 2020  Yasushi Aoyama

19 Paris 2024  Cécile Doustaly

20 Los Angeles 2028  Sven Daniel Wolfe and Cerianne Robertson

21 Brisbane 2032  Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John R. Gold is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London and Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University.

Margaret M. Gold is Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at London Metropolitan University, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.