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• “What are the three main qualities that characterize a sustainable city?”

  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

• Rio de Janeiro – new methods of transportation in anticipation of the Olympic Games

    http://sustainablecities.dk/en/city-projects/cases/rio-de-janeiro-the-gondola-opens-up-the-favela   In terms of public transportation, Rio de Janeiro is facing the same problems as many other Latin-American metropolises. The city is served by a comprehensive public transit system, including a modern metro, suburban trains and a large bus fleet. But transportation services are sometimes unable to keep pace with rampant urbanization, especially […]

• geo-blocking

  Beijing Olympics Broadcasting Report Lots of good stats on viewership and the media methods at the Beijing Olympics. Most interesting is the fact that YouTube was used to broadcast to countries who didn’t have a major service provider.  People from other countries were blocked from those channels.  This could mean in the future that information […]

• Mapping Olympic sites

    This is a great website that shows you were many of the summer Olympic sites are and has images that relate to that site in many cases.  Look to the left hand margin for the different Olympic host cities.   http://www.stadiumatlas.com/    

• Philippe Rahm Typologies of Convection Radiation, Conduction, Pressure,…

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• Giacomo Costa: Chronicles of Time

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• Koolhaas: Whatever Happenned to Urbanism?

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• Types of Olympic Urban Development

  I am still developing this diagram.  If you have any comments or information pertinent to this I’d love to hear it. The International Journal of the History of Sport  “A Brief Historical Review of Olympic Urbanization”   by Hanwen Liao and Adrian Pitts – Excerpt – – Planning in Olympic Host Cities: Successful Olympic Urbanization   […]

• QATAR planning to use cloud to cool the World Cup

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• Tourism in the wider region of the location of the Olympics

    Easier and more common for Winter Olympics games. – Winter Olympics Cities – smaller  cities – less population – less commercial funding – large number of sports located outside of the city. – able to promote surrounding attractions such as ski resorts. Recent Olympic City Examples: Sydney – 2000 – surrounding areas attracted tourist […]