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The London Olympics and Urban Development

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The Mega-Event City

The London Olympics and Urban Development

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The London Olympics and Urban Development book

The Mega-Event City
Edited ByGavin Poynter, Valerie Viehoff, Yang Li
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 7 August 2015
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758862
Pages 386
eBook ISBN 9781315758862
Subjects Built Environment, Development Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Geography, Sports and Leisure, Urban Studies
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Poynter, G., Viehoff, V., & Li, Y. (Eds.). (2015). The London Olympics and Urban Development: The Mega-Event City (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758862

ABSTRACT

As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global attention and sparked debate. This book provides an in-depth study of the transformation of East London as a result of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Government and event organisers use legacies of urban renewal to justify hosting the world’s leading sports mega-event, this book examines and evaluates those legacies.

The London Olympics and Urban Development: the mega-event city is composed of new research, conducted by academics and policy makers. It combines case study analysis with conceptual insight into the role of a sports mega-events in transforming the city. It critically assesses the narrative of legacy as a framework for legitimizing urban changes and examines the use of this framework as a means of evaluating the outcomes achieved.

This book is about that process of renewal, with a focus on the period following the 2012 Games and the diverse social, political and cultural implications of London’s use of the narrative of legacy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction G AV I N POYNTER

part |2 pages

Part I London: moving east

chapter 1|11 pages

Remaking the east: from Canary Wharf to the Olympic Park

ByERIC SORENSEN

chapter 2|11 pages

East or west? The story of the London 2012 bid

ByRICHARD SUMR AY

part |2 pages

Part II Evaluating London’s Olympic legacy

chapter 3|13 pages

Measuring and assessing the impacts of London 2012 YA N G L I

chapter 4|22 pages

The Olympic compact: legacies of gift, debt and unequal exchange PHILCOHEN

chapter 5|12 pages

Governance: lessons from London 2012

ByJOHN LOCK

chapter 6|17 pages

Rehashing and new knowledge about the Games: a bibliometric analysis and assessment of Routledge’s special Olympic journals issues MIKE COLLINS AND VA SSILGIRGINOV

part |2 pages

Part III Creating spaces, reconstructing places

chapter 7|13 pages

The Olympic Games and urban development impacts JUDITH GRANTLONG

chapter 8|13 pages

Barriers and borders: London’s legacy development ambitions and outcomes

ByRALPH WA R D

chapter 9|12 pages

The Olympic host boroughs: local authority responses to the London 2012 Games NADIAGRUBNIC

chapter 10|16 pages

Olympic brandscapes: London 2012 and the seeping commercialisation of public space GUYOSBORN AND ANDREWSMITH

part |2 pages

Part IV Social and economic transformation in East London

chapter 11|19 pages

Olympics-inspired inward investment: transforming G AV I N POYNTER

ByEast London?

chapter 12|17 pages

The 2012 Olympics and small local business: a 5-year longitudinal study of south-east London

ByPETER VLACHOS

chapter 13|12 pages

What do we mean by Paralympic legacy?

BySHANE KERR AND P. D AV I D HOWE

chapter 14|12 pages

Localism and a sustainable Olympic legacy ANDREWHOOLACHAN

chapter 15|18 pages

Edgelands and London 2012: the case of the Lower Lea Valley OLIVER POHLISCH

chapter 16|18 pages

Paralympic branding

ByIAIN MACRU RY

part |2 pages

Part V Cultural legacies of London 2012

chapter 17|15 pages

Placing culture at the heart of the Games: achievements and challenges within the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad

ByB E AT RIZ GARCIA

chapter 18|13 pages

A ‘big’ legacy? Evaluating volunteers’ experiences of London 2012 and beyond LINDAWILKS

chapter 19|10 pages

London 2012 and sport for its own sake ANDREWCALCUTT

chapter 20|14 pages

Looking back at London 2012: recruitment, selection and training of Games Makers

ByOLES YA NEDVETSK AYA , ROD PURCELLAND ANNETTE HASTINGS

chapter 21|13 pages

The Olympic regeneration of East London in the official discourse: preconditions for the construal of public space A N TO NIO DESIDERIO

chapter 22|15 pages

Portraying Britain’s past: English national newspaper coverage of the 2012 London Olympic ceremonies

ByJACK BLACK

chapter 23|10 pages

Conclusion: a London model? VA LERIE VIEHOFF

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