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Author |
: Marie Delaplace |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2019-08-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000546774 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000546772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hosting the Olympic Games by : Marie Delaplace
Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. It draws attention to the debates and paradox that hosting the Games presents for the contemporary city. Employing a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, individual chapters highlight the various controversies of the Games throughout the bidding process, the event itself and its aftermath. Social Science-based chapters place strong emphasis on the vital importance of sustainable strategy for contemporary host cities. Along with environmental concerns whether atmospheric, microbiological or otherwise, many other requirements, costs and risks involving security and public expenditure among others are explored throughout the book. Including a variety of international and comparative case studies from a range of contributing academics, this will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of Event studies as well as various disciplines including Tourism, Heritage studies and Urban and Environmental studies.
Author |
: John Rennie Short |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2018-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351000338 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351000330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hosting the Olympic Games by : John Rennie Short
Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events. It uncovers the financing of the Games, reviewing existing studies to evaluate the costs and benefits, and draws on case study experiences of the Summer and Winter Games from the past forty years to assess the short- and long-term urban legacies for host cities. Written in an easily accessible style and format, it provides an in-depth critical analysis into the franchise model of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and offers an alternative vision for future Games. This book is an important contribution to understanding the consequences for the host cities of Olympic Games.
Author |
: Andrew Zimbalist |
Publisher |
: Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2020-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815738626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815738625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Circus Maximus by : Andrew Zimbalist
Beyond the headlines of the world's most beloved sporting events Brazil hosted the 2016 men's World Cup at a cost of $15 billion to $20 billion, building large, new stadiums in cities that have little use for them anymore. The projected cost of Tokyo's 2020 Summer Olympic Games is estimated to be as high as $30 billion, much of it coming from the public trough. In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Andrew Zimbalist tackles the claim that cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In this new edition he looks at upcoming summer and winter Olympic games, discusses the recent Women's World Cup, and the upcoming men's tournament in Qatar. Circus Maximus focuses on major cities, like London, Rio, and Barcelona, that have previously hosted these sporting events, to provide context for future host cities that will bear the weight of exploding expenses, corruption, and protests. Zimbalist offers a sobering and candid look at the Olympics and the World Cup from outside the echo chamber.
Author |
: Chris Dempsey |
Publisher |
: University Press of New England |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2017-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781512600704 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1512600709 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Boston Olympics by : Chris Dempsey
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.
Author |
: Jon Pack |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2013-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0989532100 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780989532105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Olympic City by : Jon Pack
Jon Pack is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose work has been exhibited in galleries in the US and Europe, and has appeared on book covers from publishers including Simon & Schuster and Random House. His previous projects include the limited-edition book Out There; That Thing We Call Nature.
Author |
: Marie. Delaplace |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1032338113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781032338118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hosting the Olympic Games by : Marie. Delaplace
Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. It draws attention to the debates and paradox that hosting the Games presents for the contemporary city. Employing a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, individual chapters highlight the various controversies of the Games throughout the bidding process, the event itself and its aftermath. Social Science-based chapters place strong emphasis on the vital importance of sustainable strategy for contemporary host cities. Along with environmental concerns whether atmospheric, microbiological or otherwise, many other requirements, costs and risks involving security and public expenditure among others are explored throughout the book. Including a variety of international and comparative case studies from a range of contributing academics, this will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of Event studies as well as various disciplines including Tourism, Heritage studies and Urban and Environmental studies.
Author |
: David Goldblatt |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 755 |
Release |
: 2016-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393254112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393254119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by : David Goldblatt
“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Author |
: Jules Boykoff |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2016-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784780739 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784780731 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power Games by : Jules Boykoff
A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
Author |
: Dianne Irving |
Publisher |
: Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages |
: 18 |
Release |
: 2008-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781433391538 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1433391538 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hosting the Olympic Summer Games by : Dianne Irving
Every Olympics has a host city. The ancient Olympic games were held every 4 years in Greece, but the modern Olympic Games have been over 20 different host cities. The Games use stadiums where spectators can watch the events. The Olympic Games help tourism in the host cities. The host cities have to house and feed the athletes and it can cost them around 10 billion U.S. dollars.
Author |
: Harry H. Hiller |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2012-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136326745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113632674X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Host Cities and the Olympics by : Harry H. Hiller
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the print media or television. In contrast, the focus presented here is on the dynamics within the host city understood as a community of interacting individuals who encounter the Games in a variety of ways through support, opposition, or even indifference but who have a profound influence on the outcome of the Games as actors and players in the Olympics as a drama. Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm, and the symbolic field are introduced and illustrated through empirical research from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, and it is shown how social media and shifts in public opinion reflected interaction effects within the city. By filling a clear lacuna in the Olympic Studies canon, this book is important reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, urban studies, event studies or urban sociology.