In the first forty or so years following its revival at the end
of the nineteenth century, the burdens placed on cities hosting a
modern Olympic Games were relatively modest. However, as the Games
have grown in size and stature, morphing from a small-scale summer
festival into an intensively mediated global lollapalooza, demands
on host cities have massively increased, resulting in the
construction of vast and expensive new stadia, Olympic villages,
and associated infrastructure. Moreover, after the Second World
War, host cities have increasingly used the Olympics as a means to
achieve ambitious non-sporting policy goals.
Edited and introduced by two leading scholars, this new
four-volume collection from Routledge brings together key
primary-source materials and the best scholarship and serious
commentary to elucidate and explore the planning, making, and
generation of Olympic cities. The gathered materials (some of which
are reproduced in facsimile to give users a strong sense of
immediacy to the original texts) cover topics such as how cities
have embraced the Olympics into their town-planning strategies;
built new stadia and sports facilities; and constructed new
transport and other communications networks. From what is widely
seen as the paradigm of Olympics-led urban regeneration (Barcelona,
1992) to the planning disaster of Montreal, 1976, issues around the
short-term impact, and longer-term legacy, of the Olympics on
various cities are also closely interrogated.
Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction, newly
written by the editors, which places the collected material in its
historical and intellectual context, The Making of Olympic Cities
is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be welcomed as
a vital one-stop research tool.
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