Most newsworthy events fall into two general catagories; News and Media Events. News events are those events which can be represented as a set of information (the score was 5 to 4 in the Soccer game last night). These events can be represented as points in time. A media event is the coverage and […]
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 […]
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Our current research involves us mapping every venue from every Summer Olympic Games. From there we can layer information such as infrastructure and population density to understand the various factors which drive the location of different venues. We are also looking at establishing a catalog of venue layouts. For instance, Helsinki in 1952 shows […]
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 […]
This is a great website that shows you were many of the summer Olympic sites are and has images that relate to that site in many cases. Look to the left hand margin for the different Olympic host cities. http://www.stadiumatlas.com/
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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
Infographic which may be interesting when thinking about a timeline for the projects:
World Cups utilize multiple stadiums across a country and bring them together for one competition between nations. In 2006, Germany was again able to show its changed image. For the Brazil Games, the country is having to build the image. New stadiums are being constructed and old stadiums are being renovated. Sustainability issues are coming […]
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