The availability and number of actual tickets sold has fluctuated throughout the years. The number of tickets available seems to have a somewhat close correlation to the size of the hosting country. For example the 2 games in the US, Los Angeles and Atlanta, have high number of tickets compared to the games before and […]
Our current research involves us mapping every venue from every Summer Olympic Games. From there we can layer information such as infrastructure and population density to understand the various factors which drive the location of different venues. We are also looking at establishing a catalog of venue layouts. For instance, Helsinki in 1952 shows […]
Joan Busquets Interview Joan Busquets is a Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard and the former Head of planning in Barcelona This is another way you can view the video if the former does not work – http://sustainablecities.dk/en/actions/interviews/joan-busquets-geography-history-and-diversity-0
Most newsworthy events fall into two general catagories; News and Media Events. News events are those events which can be represented as a set of information (the score was 5 to 4 in the Soccer game last night). These events can be represented as points in time. A media event is the coverage and […]
For the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the chosen site was located in the historic Bund and largely residential area. Shanghai has been replacing the old for the new for the past two decades or so, but this project created a surge of demolition and has synthetically altered the fabric in one fell swoop. This also created […]