Eva Kassens-Noor

Planning Olympic Legacies (eBook, ePUB)

Transport Dreams and Urban Realities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban agendas

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136315473
• Artikelnr.: 38260298

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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