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 […]
“One man’s incredible hobby is another man’s vision of the future. Since June of 2005, farmer Joe Murray has been excavating a basement in his home in Saskatchewan Canada using only radio controlled vehicles.” Link
Shape-Shifting
Event coverage is naturally subject to bias. Here, “The Event” is seen not as a single node from which coverage is emanating from, but a cyclical event from which future events, perception, and coverage change due not only to each other, but cycles of events in the past as well. Thus, in order to understand […]
The film by Leni Riefenstahl documents the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It was split into two parts: “Festival of Nations” and “Festival of Beauty”. It was the first documentary film on the Olympics and introduced new techniques of how to film sports. Unusual camera angles, extreme close-ups and camera tracks in the stadium to view the […]
An underdeveloped transportation infrastructure led to the unfortunate nickname “the Chaos Games” for Atlanta in 1996. The Atlanta Olympic Games were approached by private investors with private interests, following the Los Angeles ’84 plan: they wanted to save money wherever they could and maximize their profits, […]
Rogue Farm Short Rogue Farm from Mark Bender on Vimeo.
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 […]
In the NY Times….
Infographic which may be interesting when thinking about a timeline for the projects:
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