This half-day event accompanies the publication of a special issue of the journal Planning Perspectives on ‘Olympic urbanism’ and the launch of the fourth edition of Olympic Cities, edited by John and Margaret Gold – the standard text on the changing relationship between the Olympics and their host cities. It follows on from the ‘State of the Legacy’ conference organised by UCL Urban Lab and IGP at UCL Here East in 2022, which examined the legacy and lessons of the London 2012 Games a decade on.
This half-day event accompanies the publication of a special issue of the journal Planning Perspectives on ‘Olympic urbanism’ and the launch of the fourth edition of Olympic Cities, edited by John and Margaret Gold – the standard text on the changing relationship between the Olympics and their host cities. It follows on from the ‘State of the Legacy’ conference organised by UCL Urban Lab and IGP at UCL Here East in 2022, which examined the legacy and lessons of the London 2012 Games a decade on.
The event will be held shortly before the Summer Games opens in Paris and will bring together an invited group of international scholars who have contributed to these publications. Collectively, they will explore the changing ideas and practices that have shaped and reshaped the ways in which cities have responded to hosting the Games, comment on the lessons about legacy and sustainability that can be learned from previous events and look forward to the challenges facing the host cities of Games to come.