The Making of Olympic Cities

In the first forty or so years following its revival at the end of the nineteenth century, the burdens placed on cities hosting a modern Olympic Games were relatively modest. However, as the Games have grown in size and stature, morphing from a small-scale summer festival into an intensively mediated global lollapalooza, demands on host cities have massively increased, resulting in the construction of vast and expensive new stadia, Olympic villages, and associated infrastructure. Moreover, after the Second World War, host cities have increasingly used the Olympics as a means to achieve ambitious non-sporting policy goals. Edited and introduced by two leading scholars, this new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together key primary-source materials and the best scholarship and serious commentary to elucidate and explore the planning, making, and generation of Olympic cities. The gathered materials (some of which are reproduced in facsimile to give users a strong sense of immediacy to the original texts) cover topics such as how cities have embraced the Olympics into their town-planning strategies; built new stadia and sports facilities; and constructed new transport and other communications networks. From what is widely seen as the paradigm of Olympics-led urban regeneration (Barcelona, 1992) to the planning disaster of Montreal, 1976, issues around the short-term impact, and longer-term legacy, of the Olympics on various cities are also closely interrogated. Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, The Making of Olympic Cities is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be welcomed as a vital one-stop research tool.

Volume I: Revival of the Olympics The Olympic Festivals 1. P. de Coubertin, ‘A Modern Olympia’ [1910], in M. Wimmer, Olympic Buildings (Edition Leipzig, 1976), pp. 209–16. 2. N. Müller, ‘Paris 1906: Inviting the Artists’, One Hundred Years of Olympic Congresses: 1984–1994 (IOC, 1994), pp. 69–79. 3. B. Chalkley and S. Essex, ‘Urban Development Through Hosting International Events: A History of the Olympic Games’, Planning Perspectives, 1999, 14, 4, 369–74. 4. J.-L. Chappelet, ‘From Lake Placid to Salt Lake City: The Challenging Growth of the Winter Games Since 1980’, European Journal of Sport Science, 2002, 2, 3, 1–21. 5. P. D. Howe, ‘A Social History of Sport for the Disabled’, The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement Through an Anthropological Lens (Routledge, 2008), pp. 15–37. 6. G. Doll-Tepper, ‘The Winter Paralympics: Past, Present, and Future’, in L. R. Gerlach (ed.), The Winter Olympics from Chamonix to Salt Lake City (University of Utah Press, 2004), pp. 281–303. 7. B. Garcia, ‘One Hundred Years of Cultural Programming Within the Olympic Games (1912–2012): Origins, Evolution and Projections’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2008, 14, 4, 361–76. Bidding for the Games 8. ‘Information for Cities Which Desire to Stage the Olympic Games’ (IOC, 1957), pp. 8–12. 9. M. J. McIntosh, ‘The Olympic Host City Bid Process: Facing Challenges and Making Changes’, in M. Messing and N. Müller (eds.), Impulse Focus on Olympism: Discoveries, Discussion, Directions (Walla Walla Press, 2000), pp. 312–21. 10. D. Booth, ‘Lobbying Orgies: Olympic City Bids in the Post-Los Angeles Era’, in K. Young and K. B. Wamsley (eds.), Global Olympics Historical and Sociological Studies of the Modern Games (Elsevier, 2005), pp. 201–25. Hosting the Games 11. F. Muñoz, ‘Olympic Urbanism and Olympic Villages Planning Strategies in Olympic Host Cities: London 1908 to London 2012’, Sociological Review, 2006, 54, 175–87. 12. J.-K. Chappelet, ‘From Chamonix to Salt Lake City: Evolution of the Olympic Village Concept at the Winter Games’, in M. de Moragas, M. Llines, and B. Kidd (eds.), Olympic Villages: A Hundred Years of Urban Planning and Shared Experiences (IOC, 1997), pp. 81–8. 13. J. R. Short, ‘Globalization Cities and the Summer Olympics’, City, 2008, 12, 3, 322–40. 14. H. Cantelon and M. Letters, ‘The Making of the IOC Environmental Policy as the Third Dimension of the Olympic Movement’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2000, 35, 3, 294–308. 15. H. Liao and A. Pitts, ‘Sustainable Olympic Urban Development’, Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development (Routledge, 2009), pp. 123–45. 16. H. Preuss, ‘Investments and the Reconstruction of a City: Burdens and Opportunities’, The Economics of Staging the Olympics: A Comparison of the Games, 1972–2008 (Elgar, 2004), pp. 68–94. 17. C. M. Hall, ‘Hallmark Events and the Planning Process’, in G. J. Syme et al. (eds.), The Planning and Evaluation of Hallmark Events (Avebury, 1989), pp. 20–39. 18. G. Adranovich, M. J. Burbank, and C. H. Heying, ‘Olympic Cities: Lessons Learned From Mega Event Politics’, Journal of Urban Affairs, 2001, 23, 113–31. 19. R. Cashman, ‘Legacy’, in R. Cashman and A. Hughes (eds.), Staging the Olympics: The Event and its Impact (University of New South Wales Press, 1999), pp. 83–94. 20. H. Preuss, ‘The Conceptualisation and Measurement of Mega Sport Event Legacies’, Journal of Sport and Tourism, 2007, 12, 3–4, 207–27. 21. M. A. Glynn, ‘Configuring the Field Play: How Hosting the Olympic Games Impacts Civic Community’, Journal of Management Studies, 2008, 45, 6, 1117–46. 22. J. Horne, ‘The Four "Knowns" of Sports Mega-Events’, Leisure Studies, 2007, 26, 81–96. Volume II: The Early Games: 1896–1956 1896–1908 23. M. L. Smith, ‘Athens Revived’, Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games (Profile Books, 2004), pp. 135–53. 24. C. Koulouri (ed.), Archives and History of the Hellenic Olympic Committee (International Olympic Academy, 2002), pp. 40–52, 80–6. 25. A. Kitroeff, ‘The Athens Interim Olympics of 1906’, Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics (Greekworks, 2004), pp. 53–76. 26. British Olympic Association, Minutes of Council Meeting, 20 Dec. 1906, pp. 1–12. 27. Anon ‘The Franco-British Exhibition I’, The Architectural Review, 1908, 24, 140, 32–7, and ‘The Franco-British Exhibition II’, The Architectural Review, 1908, 24, 142, 110–11. 28. R. Jenkins, ‘The Stadium’, The First London Olympics 1908 (Piatkus, 2008), pp. 46–75. 29. M. Llewellyn, ‘A British Olympics’, International Journal of the History of Sport, 2011, 28, 5, 669–87. 1920–1936 30. R. Renson, ‘From the Trenches to the Track: The 1920 Antwerp Olympic Games’, in N. Muller and J. K. Ruhl, Olympic Scientific Congress Sport History 19–26 July 1984 (Schors-Verlag, 1985), pp. 234–44. 31. T. Thierry, ‘Conflicts in the Paris Olympic Games 1924: A Historical Review’, in H. Ren et al. (eds.), Olympic Studies Reader (Beijing Sport University Press, 2009), pp. 235–345. 32. H. M. Westerbeek, ‘The Amsterdam Olympic Games of 1928 and 2028: Will City Heritage Inform Legacy Intent?’, Sport and Society, 2009, 12, 6, 776–91. 33. R. L. Morin, ‘The Los Angeles Coliseum The American Architect’, The Architectural Review, 1924, 125, 430–4. 34. S. A. Riess, ‘Power Without Authority: Los Angeles Elites and the Construction of the Coliseum’, Journal of Sport History, 1981, 8, 1, 50–65. 35. J. Parkinson and D. B. Parkinson, ‘Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles’, The Architectural Record, 1931, 70, 6, 419–24. 36. Organising Committee, Xth Olympiad Los Angeles Official Pictorial Souvenir (Neuner Printing and Lithograph Co., 1932), pp. 48–59. 37. S. Dinces, ‘Padres on Mount Olympus: Los Angeles and the Production of the 1932 Olympic Mega-Event’, Journal of Sport History, 2005, 32, 2, 137–65. 38. J. White, ‘"The Los Angeles Way of Doing Things": The Olympic Village and the Practice of Boosterism in 1932’, Olympika, 2002, XI, 79–116. 39. Anon, ‘XIth Olympiad, Berlin August 1st–16th, 1936’, Design and Construction, 1936, VI, 10, 221–36. 40. M. Meyer, ‘Berlin 1936’, in J. R. Gold and M. M. Gold (eds.), Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World’s Games, 1896–2016, 2nd edn. (Routledge, 2011), pp. 215–32. 41. J. Tietz, ‘Sport and Remembrance: The Berlin Olympic Site’, in R. Rother (ed.), Historic Site: The Olympic Grounds: 1009, 1936, 2006 (Jovis, 2006), pp. 10–20. 42. N. Corteen, ‘The Legacy of the Berlin 1936 Olympics’, Urban Design, 2010, 116, 24–6. 1948–1956 43. D. Bolz, ‘Welcoming the World’s Best Athletes: An Olympic Challenge for Post-War Britain’, International Journal of the History of Sport, 2010, 27, 6, 1006–28. 44. J. Hampton, ‘Organising on a Shoestring’, The Austerity Olympics: When the Games Came to London in 1948 (Aurum Press, 2008), pp. 29–37. 45. M. Bell and M. Hietala, ‘The Challenge of the Olympic Games’, Helsinki: The Innovative City, Historical Perspectives (Finnish Literature Society & City of Helsinki Urban Facts, 2002), pp. 253–9. 46. P. C. Andersen, ‘The First Time in a Capital City’, The Olympic Winter Games Oslo 1952 (Dreyers Forlag, 1952), pp. 9–19. 47. G. Davison, ‘Welcoming the World: The 1956 Olympic Games and the Representation of Melbourne’, Australian Historical Studies, 1997, 28, 190, 64–77. Volume III: ‘Fluctuating Fortunes’: 1860–1992 1960–1976 48. R. Giacomini, ‘The Daring Modern Architecture of Olympic Rome’, Games of the XVII Olympiad Official Souvenir (1960), pp. 82–94. 49. J. Scruton, ‘The 1960 International Stoke Mandeville Games in Rome’, International Journal for Paraplegics, 18–25 Sept. 1960, 14–27. 50. C. Tagsold, ‘Modernity, Space and National Representation at the Tokyo Olympics 1964’, Urban History, 2010, 37, 2, 298–300. 51. K. Socher and P. Tschurtschenthaler, ‘The Role and Impact of Mega-Events: Economic Perspectives—The Case of the Winter Olympic Games 1964 and 1976 at Innsbruck’, The Role and Impact of Mega-Events and Attractions on Regional a