Planning Olympic Legacies: Transport Dreams and Urban Realities

by Eva Kassens and Eva Kassens-Noor

Book Overview

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban agendas

In fact, transport dreams to stage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415689716
• ISBN13: 9780415689717
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"