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No Boston Olympics - How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch (Hardcover)
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No Boston Olympics - How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch (Hardcover)
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In 2013 and 2014, some of Massachusetts' wealthiest and most
powerful individuals hatched an audacious plan to bring the 2024
Summer Olympics to Boston. Like their counterparts in cities around
the world, Boston's Olympic boosters promised political leaders,
taxpayers, and the media that the Games would deliver incalculable
benefits and require little financial support from the public. Yet
these advocates refused to share the details of their bid and only
grudgingly admitted, when pressed, that their plan called for
billions of dollars in construction of unneeded venues. To win the
bid, the public would have to guarantee taxpayer funds to cover
cost overruns, which have plagued all modern Olympic Games. The
United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chose Boston 2024's bid over
that of other American cities in January 2015-and for a time it
seemed inevitable that the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
would award the Games to Boston 2024. No Boston Olympics is the
story of how an ad hoc, underfunded group of diverse and engaged
citizens joined together to challenge and ultimately derail
Boston's boosters, the USOC, and the IOC. Chris Dempsey was cochair
of No Boston Olympics, the group that first voiced skepticism,
demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is
a world expert on the economics of sports, and the leading
researcher on the hidden costs of hosting mega-events such as the
Olympics and the World Cup. Together, they tell Boston's story,
while providing a blueprint for citizens who seek to challenge
costly, wasteful, disruptive, and risky Olympic bids in their own
cities.
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