Title:
Sustainable Olympic design and urban development
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Publication Information:
New York, NY : Routledge, 2009
Physical Description:
viii, 238 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780415467612
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Summary
Summary
With appropriate planning and design, Olympic urban development has the potential to leave positive environmental legacies to the host city and contribute to environmental sustainability.
This book explains how a modern Olympic games can successfully develop a more sustainable design approach by learning from the lessons of the past and by taking account of the latest developments. It offers an assessment tool that can be tailored to individual circumstances - a tool which emerges from the analysis of previous summer games host cities and from techniques in environmental analysis and assessment.
Table of Contents
| Part 1 The Olympic Development Scenario |
| 1 Introduction |
| 2 Olympic History and its Urban Context |
| Part 2 Olympic Design and Development: Past and Present |
| 3 Olympic Urbanisation |
| 4 Olympic Architecture: Competition Venues |
| 5 Olympic Architecture: Athlete Villages |
| 6 The Olympic Impact on Host Cities |
| 7 The London 2012 Olympics |
| Part 3 Evaluating Olympic Urban Development for Sustainability |
| 8 Infrastructural Requirements to Stage the Modern Games |
| 9 Sustainable Olympic Urban Development |
| 10 Proposed Evaluation Framework for the Olympic City |
| 11 Beijing 2008 and London 2012 |
| 12 Conclusions and recommendations |
