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.
Edited by:
John Gold,
Margaret M Gold
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 4th edition
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.460kg
ISBN: 9781032287096
ISBN 10: 1032287098
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
Pages: 586
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
