The London Olympics and Urban Development The Mega-Event City [Hardcover]

As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global attention and sparked debate. This book provides an in-depth study of the transformation of East London as a result of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Government and event organisers use legacies of urban renewal to justify hosting the worlds leading sports mega-event, this book examines and evaluates those legacies.

The London Olympics and Urban Development: the mega-event cityis composed of new research, conducted by academics and policy makers. It combines case study analysis with conceptual insight into the role of a sports mega-events in transforming the city. It critically assesses the narrative of legacy as a framework for legitimizing urban changes and examines the use of this framework as a means of evaluating the outcomes achieved.

This book is about that process of renewal, with a focus on the period following the 2012 Games and the diverse social, political and cultural implications of Londons use of the narrative of legacy.

I. London: Moving East 1. Remaking the East  from Canary Wharf to the Olympic Park Eric Sorensen 2. East or West? The Story of the London 2012 Bid   Richard Sumray II.Evaluating Londons Olympic Legacy 3. Measuring and Assessing the impacts of London 2012 Yang Li 4. The Olympic Compact: Legacies of Gift, Debt and Unequal Exchange Phil Cohen 5. Governance: Lessons from London 2012 John Lock 6. Re-hashing and New Knowledge about the Games: a bibliometric analysis and assessment of Routledges Special Olympic Journals issues Mike Collins and Vassil Girginov III.Creating Spaces and Re-constructing Places 7. The Olympic Games and Urban Development Impacts Juditlâ