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/
More common for the Summer Olympic games. – Summer Olypics Cities – larger cities – large population – major commercial funding – much more popular and greater media coverage. Recent Olympic City Examples: Athens- 2004 – tried to follow the Barcelona plan but lacked the urban development strategy of it. – decided to focus more […]
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 […]
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 […]
As shown in the graph displaying the number of countries broadcasting the Olympics and the revenue received from it, the fees for broadcasting the Olympics in the U.S. as greatly increased. Since the start of the broadcast of the Olympics in the 1960’s the fees that television networks were willing to pay for broadcasting […]
World Cups utilize multiple stadiums across a country and bring them together for one competition between nations. In 2006, Germany was again able to show its changed image. For the Brazil Games, the country is having to build the image. New stadiums are being constructed and old stadiums are being renovated. Sustainability issues are coming […]
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 […]
The Media Event as an Aparatus for Time and Space The Media event can be conceptualized as a massive occasion in respect to both time and space. These events tend to revolve around news events ( a distiction to be made later) but are intensified through a period of speculation, coverage, and post event […]
This is a video made in 2009 during a walkthrough of the Berlin Olympic Village in 1936, including some footage of abandoned venues and the Olympic pool. Though it is not as telling as physical experience, it is still a haunting video to watch, as you get a sense of what these places once were, […]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/vancouvers-poverty-olympi_n_453593.html This is something interesting to see, the 2010 winter games in the Canadian government back in 2006 estimated that the cost of the games to the tax payers would only be C$2.5 billion. In reality the games spent closer to C$6billion and now many citizens are now homeless. Though in retrospective the amount spent […]
After the games move out of the respective cities, their Olympic Villages get transformed into parks, residential complexes, or become abandoned entirely. Sarajevo stands out, however, primarily due to the political and social strife rampant in the country, especially the Bosnian civil war. Their Olympic grounds have turned into battlefields, and their Olympic village now […]
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