Designing Olympics

Author : Jilly Traganou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317226352

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Designing the Olympics by Jilly Traganou Pdf

Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship. The "Olympic design milieu" fans out from the construction of the Olympic city and the creation of emblems, mascots, and ceremonies, to the consumption, interpretation, and appropriation of Olympic artifacts from their conception to their afterlife. Besides products that try to achieve consensus and induce civic pride, the "Olympic design milieu" also includes processes that oppose the Olympics and their enforcement. The book examines the graphic design program for Tokyo 1964, architecture and urban plans for Athens 2004, brand design for London 2012, and practices of subversive appropriation and sociotechnical action in counter-Olympic movements since the 1960s. It explores how the Olympics shape the physical, legal and emotional contours of a host nation and its position in the world; how the Games are contested by a broader social spectrum within and beyond the nation; and how, throughout these encounters, design plays a crucial role. Recognizing the presence of multiple actors, the book investigates the potential of design in promoting equitable political participation in the Olympic context.

Author : Daniël de Groot,Willemieke Hornis,Elien Wierenga
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9064507481

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Designing Olympics by Daniël de Groot,Willemieke Hornis,Elien Wierenga Pdf

The Netherlands' Olympic Plan 2028, already dubbed the Dutch Approach in international circles, seeks to use the power of sports and the hosting of the 2028 Summer Olympics to put the Netherlands squarely on the international map. The plan is unique because of the exceedingly long run-up period, the aim being to book maximum results before as well as after hopefully securing the bid to organize the Olympic Games in 2028. This strategy in stages distributed over the years creates opportunities to find the best means of physically accommodating the Games, to hitch these means to other tasks and to engage in dialogue on these issues. Design plays a crucial role in all of this, a role that changes with each set of circumstances. This extra edition in the 'Design and Politics' series describes the different ways in which design figures in shaping the Olympic Plan's ambition to house the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Commemorative coins
ISBN : UCR:31210018780286

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Oversight on 1984 Olympic Commemorative Coin Designs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage Pdf

Author : Richard Cashman,Anthony Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Olympic
ISBN : UOM:39015050497604

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Staging the Olympics by Richard Cashman,Anthony Hughes Pdf

Captures the processes and problems involved with realising the Sydney Olympics.

Author : Adrian C. Pitts,Hanwen Liao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0415467624

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Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development by Adrian C. Pitts,Hanwen Liao Pdf

This book explains how modern Olympic games can successfully develop a more sustainable design approach by learning from the lessons of the past and by taking account of the latest developments.

Author : Anthony Richards,Pete Fussey,Andrew Silke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136854965

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Terrorism and the Olympics by Anthony Richards,Pete Fussey,Andrew Silke Pdf

The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat. The enormous media profile and symbolic significance of the Olympic Games, the history of terrorists aiming to use such high-profile events to advance their cause, and Al Qaeda's aim to cause mass casualties, all have major implications for the security of London 2012. Drawing on contributions from leading academics and practitioners in the field the book will assess the current terrorist threat, particularly focusing on terrorist targeting and how the Olympics might feature in this, before addressing particular response themes such as transport security, the role of surveillance, resilient designing of Olympic sites, the role of private security, and the challenge of inter-agency coordination. The book will conclude by providing an assessment of the legacy of Olympic security to date and will discuss the anticipated issues and dilemmas of the future. This book will be of interest to students of terrorism studies, security studies, counter-terrorism and sports studies.

Author : Alan Tomlinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317379126

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The Olympic Legacy by Alan Tomlinson Pdf

This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate. Drawing upon research conducted on the Beijing, Vancouver, Athens, London and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, it identifies the recurrent rhetoric that has characterised the legacy debate, alongside the harsh realities that contradict many legacies and aspirations. Fifteen researchers from six countries contribute a range of critical analytical studies which explore macro-perspectives on the shifting political economy symbolized at Beijing or in an over-reaching Greece, the soft power benefits perceived by the Rio 2016 organizers, the anthropological study of neighbourhood spaces threatened by corporate branding, and the apparatus of surveillance surrounding an Olympic Games. The symbolic importance of the Games is also captured in studies of volunteer motivations, labour and work initiatives, and the introduction of women’s boxing at London 2012. In a comprehensive overview, Alan Tomlinson illuminates the rhetoric of successive Olympic cycles and the rise to prominence of the legacy question in that debate. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.

Author : Adrian C. Pitts,Hanwen Liao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124181764

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Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development by Adrian C. Pitts,Hanwen Liao Pdf

This book explains how modern Olympic games can successfully develop a more sustainable design approach by learning from the lessons of the past and by taking account of the latest developments.

Author : Luis M. Castañeda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 0816690766

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Spectacular Mexico by Luis M. Castañeda Pdf

In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico's arrival in the developed world. In Spectacular Mexico, Luis M. Castañeda demonstrates how these projects were used to create a spectacle of social harmony and ultimately to guide the nation's capital into becoming the powerful megacity we know today. Not only the first Latin American country to host the Olympics, but also the first Spanish-speaking country, Mexico's architectural transformation was put on international display. From traveling exhibitions of indigenous archaeological artifacts to the construction of the Mexico City subway, Spectacular Mexico details how these key projects placed the nation on the stage of global capitalism and revamped its status as a modernized country. Surveying works of major architects such as Félix Candela, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Ricardo Legorreta, and graphic designer Lance Wyman, Castañeda illustrates the use of architecture and design as instruments of propaganda and nation branding. Forming a kind of "image economy," Mexico's architectural projects and artifacts were at the heart of the nation's economic growth and cultivated a new mass audience at an international level. Through an examination of one of the most important cosmopolitan moments in Mexico's history, Spectacular Mexico positions architecture as central to the negotiation of social, economic, and political relations.

Author : Richard Cashman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : PSU:000047095335

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Olympic Countdown by Richard Cashman Pdf

A collection of weekly columns that were published in the Southern courier and the Inner western suburbs courier. Topics include drugs, the Cultural Olympiad, the environment, the Paralympics, politics, security, the sponsors, the torch relay and transport.

Author : John Jossifakis
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656696438

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Olympic Games Ceremonies. An Event Management Perspective by John Jossifakis Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 7.5, Leeds Metropolitan University (Carnagie), course: Masters in Event Management, language: English, abstract: The major purpose of this study is to analyse the major impact that an Olympic Games ceremony has on the branding of a city and of a nation, looking to take the current level of research and improving on this with an enhanced analysis of the subject using a case study approach. The study has focused on one main research question. What is the impact of an Olympic Ceremony on the image of a host city? This question was further explored with three core components which were analysed and which included the discovery of the extent to which an Olympic Games ceremony could help to create an image of a specific city / country, the importance ascribed to Olympic Games ceremonies and how they are deemed to be vital in leading to rising tourist numbers as well as a consideration of the major short and long-term socio-economic impacts of an Olympic Games ceremony on a host city.

Author : Markus Osterwalder
Publisher : Verlag Niggli AG
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Graphic design (Typography)
ISBN : 372121000X

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Olympic Games: the Design by Markus Osterwalder Pdf

The first publication ever to focus on the visual identities of every Olympic Game, from Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020.

Author : Umesh V. Shenoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Olympics on postage stamps
ISBN : UOM:39015053531136

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Olympics, Origin to Centenary by Umesh V. Shenoy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : China
ISBN : IND:30000115666590

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China & World Cultural Exchange by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Timmers
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106017430395

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A Century of Olympic Posters by Margaret Timmers Pdf

As snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of the world. This collection of images offers an intensely visual representation of the modern Games, and shows the evolution of the Olympic Games poster as well.