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• Vancouver’s ‘Poverty Olympics’

  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 […]

• The Economist articles on London 2012

  A series of articles on The Economist journal regarding the assessment of economic impact on the London 2012 Olympics. http://www.economist.com/topics/2012-olympics and http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/15/london-2012-olympics-the-economist    

• 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 […]

• GAMES EVOLUTION [olympic sports]

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• Cedric Price, Fun Palace, Potteries and other projects

    “From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price” Canadian Center for Architecture collection and archive Design Museum Mute  

• Grasshopper Voronoi Merry Xmas

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• Broadcasting Fees

    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 […]

• Munich Olympic Park

  The decision to host the 1972 Olympics gave Munich the opportunity to redevelop the Oberwiesenfeld area. It had been used as an airfield up until 1939 when the Munich- Riem airport opened. The area became largely idle despite the Nazi plans to have the area serve as the central slaughterhouse and marketplace. The goal was […]

• Be Green or Get Protested

  International environmental watchdogs, such as Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme have become more vocal on large scale sporting events trying to get the respective organizing committees to think about all issues that encompass an event from pre-event planning to post-event reuse and recycling. Greenpeace has created Olympic Environmental Guidelines that outline 34 guidelines […]

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