Hosting the Olympic Games : The Real Costs for Cities

Summary: "John Rennie Short is a Professor in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. His research interests include cities, history of cartography and geopolitics. He has published widely in a range of journals and is the author of 47 books. His work has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. His essays on aspect of the Olympic Games have appeared in Associated Press, Business Insider, Citiscope, City Metric, Market Watch, Newsweek, PBS Newshour, Quartz, Salon, Slate, Time, US News and World Report, Washington Post and World Economic Forum."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780367670474
Physical Description: viii, 113 pages: illustrations; 22cm
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Publisher: London : Taylor and Francis, [2020].
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

chapter 1 Setting the scene / John Rennie Short -- chapter 2 The Olympics -- Past and present / John Rennie Short -- chapter 3 Financing the Games / John Rennie Short -- chapter 4 Bidding / John Rennie Short -- chapter 5 Rising costs / John Rennie Short -- chapter 6 Costs and benefits / John Rennie Short -- chapter 7 Urban legacies / John Rennie Short -- chapter 8 Alternatives to event capture / John Rennie Short.

Restrictions on Access Note:

Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff.