1st Edition
Planning Olympic Legacies Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
1. The Olympic Games: an Ephemeral Opportunity for Cities 2. The IOC as a Powerful Stakeholder in the Planning Process 3. Planning for the 1992 Olympics and Barcelona’s Urban Legacy 4. Planning for the 1996 Olympics and Atlanta’s Urban Legacy 5. Planning for the 2000 Olympics and Sydney’s Urban Legacy 6. Planning for the 2004 Olympics And Athens’ Urban Legacy 7. The Prospect of a Legacy for London 2012 and Rio De Janeiro 2016 8. Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
Biography
Eva Kassens-Noor is an assistant professor of urban and transport planning in the School of Planning, Design and Construction (SPDC) holding a joint appointment with the Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP) at Michigan State University. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in Geography. She received her Diplom-Ingenieur in Business Engineering from the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany, her MST (Master of Science in Transportation) from the Civil and Engineering Department at MIT, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.
"For any city with Olympic dreams, there is lots of must-read informtion in a short new book by Eva Kassens-Noor of Michigan State University" - Planning
