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• Creative Repurposing

  What can a stadium be used for once it no longer is a venue to watch sports or other forms of entertainment? Can it serve as a community center for the future providing a central gathering space to buy, sell, and socialize? Can ti serve as a community garden?

• 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   […]

• 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 […]

• Olympic Legacy or Olympic Debt

  Known as the “Olympic Legacy,” the decade after a city hosts the games is often quite prosperous. With an enhanced infrastructure system in place, the city is often a tourist and corporate business haven. The city reap the benefits of enhanced public transportation and will often secure future sporting events due to the excitement of […]

• 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  

• Predicting the Future of Computing

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• Game related tourism for the Olympic city itself.

  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 […]

• Nail Houses

  Nail Houses are becoming a common sighting in the news about new construction in China.  The term was coined in reference to the fact that these houses are like a “stubborn nail” which is difficult to remove; a nuisance essentially.  In Beijing in 2004, when confronted with plans for a shopping mall, which would displace […]

• RPI in the Olympics

  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 […]

• Great original source documents

  http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm   Here’s a great site that has links to the original IOC reports concerning each and every Olympic Game. These are the documents that every Wikipedia article sites. They are incredible as source documents. Especially interesting is to critically evaluate the way each nation characterizes (or tries to) their approach to planning and executing […]