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
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/
Wujang Road's Street Market Demolition February 2010
For the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the chosen site was located in the historic Bund and largely residential area. Shanghai has been replacing the old for the new for the past two decades or so, but this project created a surge of demolition and has synthetically altered the fabric in one fell swoop. This also created an influx of tens of thousands of migrant workers in the city, while displacing up to one million residents. These demolitions were supposedly conducted properly by following procedure, but the immense resistance of the residents [including two potentially linked acts of self-immolation] arose skepticism as to whether or not the land seizures were corrupt.
Linked here is a blog of first-hand accounts of a non-native resident on the construction atmosphere in Shanghai. Specifically important is the category “Building the China Dream.”
Blog: SHANGHAI STREET STORIES: Building the China Dream
The common trend in Shanghai: Old is out, New is in
This is a video made in 2009 during a walkthrough of the Berlin Olympic Village in 1936, including some footage of abandoned venues and the Olympic pool. Though it is not as telling as physical experience, it is still a haunting video to watch, as you get a sense of what these places once were, their past history embedded in physical objects and spaces. You can get a sense of the austerity of the design, with white box apartment houses arranged in the village typology. All of the structures seem to have some Fascist undertones in their construction – a communicative device that contributed to the 1936 games being known as the “Nazi Olympics,” just prior to the outbreak of WWII. The memory of these cultural, political, and social events still lingers today.
Whatever Happened to Urbanism?
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
http://www.urbandesignweek.org/
Check the Competition “For the City/By the City” and other event along this week and next, including weekend.
This is a test for general research post by group “B”.
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