Link here “Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn about everything in between.”
The link is to a site that has many images of the infrastructure built for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The images show the conditions of the structures as they existed for the games and as they exist now. The stadium has gone through a few phases of redevelopment, but most of the buildings only […]
GAMES evolution
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, […]
Megastructure Reloaded “Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban planning. Till now, however, there has been no exhibition dealing explicitly with megastructuralists’ vision. […]
From the IOC Report: The organisation of the Lacrosse Demonstration was carried out by the English Lacrosse Union and this body invited a team from the United States of America to play a match at the Empire Stadium against an All-England Lacrosse side. The visiting team was the Rensselaer Polytechnic of Troy, New York State. The U.S.A. team […]
The data was all for summer host cities. If someone finds investment information about any of the games not listed above I’d like to see it please. The International Journal of the History of Sport “A Brief Historical Review of Olympic Urbanization” by Hanwen Liao and Adrian Pitts – Excerpt – – Planning […]
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
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 […]
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