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London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City (eBook)

A Hollow Legacy?

Phil Cohen, Paul Watt (Herausgeber)

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2017
460 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-48947-0 (ISBN)

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This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise. Cohen and Watt consider the lessons that can be learnt from the London experience and aptly apply them other host cities, specifically Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Olympics are often described as a 'mega-event' in a way that assumes the host cities have no other existence outside, before or beyond the contexts imposed by the Games themselves. In terms of regeneration, the London 2012 Olympics promised to trigger a mega-regeneration project that was different to what had come before. This time the mistakes of other large-scale projects like London Docklands and Canary Wharf would be put right: top-down planning would be replaced by civic participation, communication and 'the local'. This edited collection questions how far the 2012 London legacy really is different. In so doing, it brings fresh evidence, original insights and new perspectives to bear on the post-Olympics debate. A detailed and well-researched study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology, urban planning, and sports studies.

Phil Cohen is Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London and Emeritus Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, and co-founder of the Living Maps network.

Paul Watt is Reader in Urban Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom. He co-wrote Understanding Social Inequality (Sage, 2007) with Tim Butler, and co-edited Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) with Peer Smets.

This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise. Cohen and Watt consider the lessons that can be learnt from the London experience and aptly apply them other host cities, specifically Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Olympics are often described as a 'mega-event' in a way that assumes the host cities have no other existence outside, before or beyond the contexts imposed by the Games themselves. In terms of regeneration, the London 2012 Olympics promised to trigger a mega-regeneration project that was different to what had come before. This time the mistakes of other large-scale projects like London Docklands and Canary Wharf would be put right: top-down planning would be replaced by civic participation, communication and 'the local'. This edited collection questions how far the 2012 London legacy really is different. In so doing, it bringsfresh evidence, original insights and new perspectives to bear on the post-Olympics debate. A detailed and well-researched study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology, urban planning, and sports studies.

Phil Cohen is Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London and Emeritus Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, and co-founder of the Living Maps network.Paul Watt is Reader in Urban Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom. He co-wrote Understanding Social Inequality (Sage, 2007) with Tim Butler, and co-edited Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) with Peer Smets.

Part I. London 2012: the Mega-event in Context.- Chapter 1. East London’s Post Olympic Economy.- Chapter 2. Hollow Sovereignty and the Hollow Crown?.- Part II. The 2012 Legacy Story: Views from East London.- Chapter 3. Legacy for Whom?.- Chapter 4. A Place Beyond BeliefBorough.- Part III. Sporting Chances? The Social and Health Legacies of 2012.- Chapter 10. Are the Olympics Good for your Health?.- Chapter 11. Observing Legacy.- Chapter 12. Social Legacies of Olympic and Paralympic Games in East London.- Part IV. From London 2012 to Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.- Chapter 13. The Rio Dossier.- Chapter 14. From London 2012 to Tokyo 2020.- Conclusion. New Directions in Olympic Legacy Research

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.9.2017
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 460 p. 55 illus.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Area Studies • Community • East London • Gentrification • House prices • Housing • Olympic Games • Redevelopment • Sport • urban geography and urbanism • urban inequality
ISBN-10	1-137-48947-2 / 1137489472
ISBN-13	978-1-137-48947-0 / 9781137489470

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