Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
By John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
Providing a complete assessment of the altering courting among towns and the Olympic occasions, this considerably revised and enlarged variation builds at the luck of its predecessor. Its insurance takes account of vital new scholarship in addition to including reflections at the adventure of staging Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010, the kingdom of arrangements for London 2012, and the plans for the video games scheduled for Sochi in 2014 and Rio de Janeiro 2016.
The ebook is split into 3 components that offer overviews of the city legacy of the 4 part Olympic fairs, systematic surveys of 5 key facets of task desirous about staging the Olympics and ten chronologically prepared pix of host cities.
As controversy over the growing to be dimension and cost of the Olympics keeps, this well timed evaluation of the video games’ improvement and the advanced agendas that host towns connect to the development can be crucial analyzing for city and activities historians, city geographers, planners and all concerned about figuring out the connection among towns and culture.
Olympic towns is without doubt one of the Routledge books of the month for December 2010
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A canal at Willebroek near Brussels, used for the rowing events, provided an industrial setting so ugly that Coubertin called it ‘anti-Olympic’ (Renson, 1996, p. 57). There were few associated festivities in the city. , p. 59). FROM A TO B: THE SUMMER OLYMPICS, 1896–2008 • 31 The responsibility of consolidating the progress made at London and Stockholm therefore passed to the Organization Committees of the two ensuing Games. Paris 1924 represented the first occasion on which the growing prestige of the Olympics led to serious international competition among cities to act as hosts.
The Olympics are not a single event. The advent of the Winter Olympics in 1924 and the gradual convergence of the Paralympics with both the Summer and Winter Games have added further strands to the Olympic sporting competitions. In addition, as noted above, the revival of the modern Games predicated a cultural festival to exist alongside the sports events. Each of these strands merits coverage as intrinsic parts of the experience of being an Olympic city. Secondly, the prevailing focus is historical.
Revival The idea of appropriating the title ‘Olympic’ had long appealed to organizers of sporting events (Redmond, 1988; Buchanan and Mallon, 2001). Robert Dover, described as an ‘English captain and attorney’ (Anon, 1910, p. 453), established a ‘Cotswold Games’ on his estate in 1604, largely as a protest against Puritan proscriptions of sporting pastimes and other frivolities (Mandell, 1976, p. 29). The festival that contemporary writers described as ‘Mr Robert Dover’s Olimpick Games upon the Cotswold Hills’ included ‘cudgel-playing, wrestling, running at the quintain, casting the ball and hammer, hand-ball, gymnastics, rural dances and games, and horse-racing, the winners in which received valuable prizes’ (Anon, 1910, p.