Olympic Cities

City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2032

John Gold, Margaret M Gold (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

586 Seiten

2024 | 4th edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-28709-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Planning, History and Environment Series
Zusatzinfo	110 Halftones, black and white; 110 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1460 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-032-28709-8 / 1032287098
ISBN-13	978-1-032-28709-6 / 9781032287096
Zustand	Neuware