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The first edition of
Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and much enlarged fourth edition builds on the success of its predecessors.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Contributors
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
Part I The Olympic Festivals
2 The Summer Olympics, 1896–2020
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
3 The Winter Olympics, 1924–2022
Stephen Essex
4 The Cultural Olympiads
Beatriz García
5 The Paralympic Games
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
Part II Planning and Management
6 Olympic Finance
Holger Preuss
7 Olympic Sustainability
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
8 Olympic Villages
Tony Sainsbury
9 Security and the Threat of Terrorism
Jon Coaffee and Pete Fussey
10 Urban Regeneration
Andrew Smith
11 Olympic Tourism
Mike Weed
Part III City Portraits
12 Rome 1960
Giuseppe Telesca
13 Sydney 2000
Robert Freestone
14 Athens 2004
Margaret M. Gold
15 Beijing 2008
Ian G. Cook, Stephen Miles and Giorgos Chatzinakos
16 London 2012
Graeme Evans and Özlem Tasci-Edizel
17 Rio de Janeiro 2016
Gabriel Silvestre and Erik Omens de Melo
18 Tokyo 2020
Yasushi Aoyama
19 Paris 2024
Cécile Doustaly
20 Los Angeles 2028
Sven Daniel Wolfe and Cerianne Robertson
21 Brisbane 2032
Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
John R. Gold is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London and Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University.
Margaret M. Gold is Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at London Metropolitan University, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Summary
The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and much enlarged fourth edition builds on the success of its predecessors.
