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• 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 […]

• Giacomo Costa: Chronicles of Time

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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 […]

• Defying Brazil’s Grand Plan for the Olympics

  Link here “Gearing up for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held here, officials celebrated plans for a futuristic “Olympic Park,” replete with a waterside park and athlete villages, promoting it as “a new piece of the city.” There was just one problem: the 4,000 people who already live in that part of Rio de […]

• 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   […]

• 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    

• Passing Cloud

    http://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/17/passing-cloud-by-tiago-barros/ If you’re not worried about where you go or how fast you get there, this enormous inflatable cloud is the mode of transport for you. Predominant winds would determine the routes and speed of the hovering cloud, which would move from place to place without any fixed destinations. Passengers would board the cloud […]

• Cycle Jacket

  Link here. “When it comes to cycling apparel, it’s right that style plays second fiddle to safety. But if high visibility can be achieved without making the ultimate sartorial sacrifice, so much the better. With its Sporty Supaheroe cycling jacket, the Utope Project aims to achieve just that – integrating 64 RGB LEDs into its […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]