The challenge of urban design in securing post-event legacies of Olympic Parks

• Autores: Renata Latuf de Oliveira-Sanchez, Stephen Essex
• Localización: Journal of urban design, ISSN 1357-4809, ISSN-e 1469-9664, Nº. 23, 2, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Urban transformations through exceptional architecture), págs. 278-297
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Olympic Parks demand a very distinctive built environment in order to function for their primary purpose, namely to host major sporting competitions. These spaces, however, require substantial reconfiguration in the post-event mode to ensure viable, mixed use and liveable places. This paper evaluates the challenges of transforming Olympic Parks, using evidence from four past hosts:

    Munich (1972), Sydney (2000), London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016). The discussion raises questions about retaining the ceremonial focus of the Olympic Park and whether a more decentralised model might make the associated urban design and planning legacies more deliverable for future host cities.