4th Edition
Olympic Cities City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2032
The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and much enlarged fourth edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews of the urban legacy of the four component Olympic festivals: the Summer Games; Winter Games; Cultural Olympiads; and the Paralympics. The second part comprises systematic surveys of six key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics and Paralympics: finance; sustainability; the creation of Olympic Villages; security; urban regeneration; and tourism. The final part consists of ten chronologically arranged portraits of host cities from 1960 to 2032, with complete coverage of the Summer Games of the twenty-first century.
As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics, with associated issues of democratic accountability and legacy, continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading for a wide audience. This will include not just urban and sports historians, urban geographers, event managers, and city planners, but also anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events and concerned with building a better understanding of the relationship between cities, sport, and culture.
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Contributors
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
Part I The Olympic Festivals
2 The Summer Olympics, 1896–2020
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
3 The Winter Olympics, 1924–2022
Stephen Essex
4 The Cultural Olympiads
Beatriz García
5 The Paralympic Games
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
Part II Planning and Management
6 Olympic Finance
Holger Preuss
7 Olympic Sustainability
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
8 Olympic Villages
Tony Sainsbury
9 Security and the Threat of Terrorism
Jon Coaffee and Pete Fussey
10 Urban Regeneration
Andrew Smith
11 Olympic Tourism
Mike Weed
Part III City Portraits
12 Rome 1960
Giuseppe Telesca
13 Sydney 2000
Robert Freestone
14 Athens 2004
Margaret M. Gold
15 Beijing 2008
Ian G. Cook, Stephen Miles and Giorgos Chatzinakos
16 London 2012
Graeme Evans and Özlem Tasci-Edizel
17 Rio de Janeiro 2016
Gabriel Silvestre and Erik Omens de Melo
18 Tokyo 2020
Yasushi Aoyama
19 Paris 2024
Cécile Doustaly
20 Los Angeles 2028
Sven Daniel Wolfe and Cerianne Robertson
21 Brisbane 2032
Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
John R. Gold is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London and Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University.
Margaret M. Gold is Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at London Metropolitan University, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.
