Key Activities
Understanding the Olympic movement and operation history, learn from previous hosting cities’ experience
Finding connections between Olympic Games and Urban development, and explore how would them affect the modern Stadium design
Compare and contrast similar structural design and construction method, revise and design to accommodate “modern circus” practice
Simulating reconfiguring scenarios, and examining possibilities
Key Resource Pitts, Adrian C., and Hanwen Liao. Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development. Milton Park, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. Print.
Girginov, Vassil. Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Volume One: Making the Games. Vol. One. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Llewellyn, Matthew P. Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games. London: Routledge, 2012. Print.
Traganou, Jilly, and Miodrag Mitrašinović. Travel, Space, Architecture. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009. Print. …show more content…
So far in the history of modern Olympic games, there has not been one game came in or under budget. “The overwhelming conclusion is that in most cases the Olympics are a money-losing proposition for host cities.” Was it just about money though? Author believes that while money being one of the most calculative indicators of economic value, it is safe to assume the construction and producing process call for large energy consumption as
Understanding the Olympic movement and operation history, learn from previous hosting cities’ experience
Finding connections between Olympic Games and Urban development, and explore how would them affect the modern Stadium design
Compare and contrast similar structural design and construction method, revise and design to accommodate “modern circus” practice
Simulating reconfiguring scenarios, and examining possibilities
Key Resource Pitts, Adrian C., and Hanwen Liao. Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development. Milton Park, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. Print.
Girginov, Vassil. Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Volume One: Making the Games. Vol. One. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Llewellyn, Matthew P. Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games. London: Routledge, 2012. Print.
Traganou, Jilly, and Miodrag Mitrašinović. Travel, Space, Architecture. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009. Print. …show more content…
So far in the history of modern Olympic games, there has not been one game came in or under budget. “The overwhelming conclusion is that in most cases the Olympics are a money-losing proposition for host cities.” Was it just about money though? Author believes that while money being one of the most calculative indicators of economic value, it is safe to assume the construction and producing process call for large energy consumption as