Olympic Villages as Heterotopias

Contradictions between Megaevents and Quotidian Urban Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12633815
AutoresRenata Sánchez (0000-0002-7094-0175, Universidade de São Paulo, autor de correspondencia), Daniel Koch (0000-0002-4539-1346, KTH), Leandro Silva Medrano (0000-0002-1598-9101, Universidade de São Paulo)
Año2022
Volumen39
Número4
Páginas420-441
Fecha de publicación2022-01-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHousing Theory and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14036096.2021.1992497
OpenAlexW4206562204
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas28

As a showcase for ideal urban visions, Olympic Villages encompass the utopian disposition of the Olympic Games. More precisely, Olympic Villages could be understood as a heterotopia, a theorization that stems from an analysis of their historical, conceptual, and spatial evolution over the course of the Summer Olympic Games. Against this backdrop, we analysed some notable examples of Olympic Villages as we questioned the relationship between their proposed “legacies” and their subsequent integration in the urban realities of their host cities. We conclude that most Olympic Villages have not fulfiled their legacy role as proposed by the IOC. This suggests that we need to further explore the relationship between the host region’s urban development and the Olympic Games so that the desired “Olympic legacy” may become part of the daily life of the host cities

Economic geography · Geography · Heterotopia (medicine · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Medicine · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts