Olympic cities : city agendas, planning and the world's games, 1896-2020 / edited by John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gold, John R., 1949- editor.

Gold, Margaret M., editor.

Series:

Planning, history, and the environment series

Planning, history and environment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--History.

City planning.

History.

Municipal government--History.

Municipal government.

Municipal services--History.

Municipal services.

Olympics--History.

Olympics.

Olympics--Planning.

Olympics--Management--History.

Olympics--Management.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

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 enlarged third 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 seven key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics: finance; place promotion; the creation of Olympic Villages; security; urban regeneration; tourism; and transport. The final part consists of nine chronologically arranged portraits of host cities, from 1936 to 2020, with particular emphasis on the six Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games of the twenty-first century. As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics, with associated issues of 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 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / John R. Gold Gold, John R., Margaret M. Gold Gold, Margaret M. 1

Part I The Olympic Festivals

2 The Enduring Enterprise: The Summer Olympics, 1896-2012 / John R. Gold Gold, John R., Margaret M. Gold Gold, Margaret M. 21

3 The Winter Olympics: Driving Urban Change, 1924-2022 / Stephen J. Essex Essex, Stephen J., Jiska de Groot Groot, Jiska de 64

4 The Cultural Olympiads / Beatriz Garcia Garcia, Beatriz 90

5 The Paralympic Games / John R. Gold Gold, John R., Margaret M. Gold Gold, Margaret M. 114

Part II Planning and Management

6 Olympic Finance / Holger Preuss Preuss, Holger 139

7 Promoting the Olympic City / Stephen V. Ward Ward, Stephen V. 161

8 Olympic Villages / Tony Sainsbury Sainsbury, Tony 180

9 Security / Jon Coaffee Coaffee, Jon, Pete Fussey Fussey, Pete 203

10 Urban Regeneration / Andrew Smith Smith, Andrew 217

11 Olympic Tourism / Mike Weed Weed, Mike 230

12 Olympic Transport / Eva Kassens-Noor Kassens-Noor, Eva 253

Part III City Portraits

13 Berlin 1936 / Monika Meyer Meyer, Monika 269

14 Mexico City 1968 / Michael Barke Barke, Michael 287

15 Munich 1972 / Monika Meyer Meyer, Monika 301

16 Sydney 2000 / Robert Freestone Freestone, Robert, Simon Gunasekara Gunasekara, Simon 317

17 Athens 2004 / Margaret M. Gold Gold, Margaret M. 333

18 Beijing 2008 / Ian G. Cook Cook, Ian G., Steven Miles Miles, Steven 359

19 London 2012 / Graeme Evans Evans, Graeme, Özlem Edizell Edizell, Özlem 378

20 Rio de Janeiro 2016 / Gabriel Silvestre Silvestre, Gabriel 400

21 Tokyo 2020 / Yasushi Aoyama Aoyama, Yasushi 424.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138832671

1138832677

9781138832695

1138832693

OCLC:

951214802

Publisher Number:

40026274842