Robert Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does stadium construction drive surrounding urban development? Evidence from spatiotemporal impacts of large-scale stadiums in China
Projecting the Metropolis: Paris 2024 and the (re)scaling of metropolitan governance
Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consi
Sport mega event planning in Toronto: From a democratic demand to a democratic demise
Key Messages Urban geographers need to consider how even bidding for a mega event has the potential to configure/reconfigure the politics of local economic development. Provincially‐led rescaling challenges the role of the public in Toronto's mega event development process. The continued depoliticization of urban governance in Toronto is disconcerting
Negotiating 'New' Narratives: Rio de Janeiro and the “Media Geography” of the 2014 Fifa World Cup
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is currently in the midst of an extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential and dilemmas of utilizing mega-events to advance an urban agenda, less understood is the role that media play in the construction of the 'media geography' of mega-events. This research examines the collective narratives crafted by five Western international n…
Rescaling Ambitions: Waterfront Governance and Toronto's 2015 Pan American Games
Toronto is a rare global city because negotiating public land ownership remains a defining feature of the city's urban politics. The awarding of the 2015 Pan American Games to Toronto is a prime occasion to witness how fragmented governance can limit the ambition and enthusiasm of a sporting mega‐event. Historically, Toronto has not been known for its ability to host large‐scale sporting events but it has recently used a series of failed Olympic …
Rethinking Lactation Space: Working Mothers, Working Bodies, and the Politics of Inclusion
The 2001 dedication of the Lactation Support Program at Virginia Tech launched an initiative meant to support the needs of breastfeeding employees and the progressive image of the university as a family-friendly institution. While the program created clean, comfortable, private spaces to express breastmilk, the institutionalization of lactation spaces in university construction policy was not accompanied by a planned education piece and consequen…
Micropolitan areas: Exploring the linkages between demography and land-cover change in the United States cities
Toronto's Olympic Aspirations: A Bid for the Waterfront 1
For more than 50 years Toronto, Ontario, Canada has sought to host the Olympic Games. This article argues that Toronto's quest to win the right to host does not emerge from a love of sport, but rather stems from the city's inability to define the meaning and purpose of its water-front. Through merging the symbolic power of sport with the spatial significance of Toronto's waterfront land, various interest groups have used bids for the Olympic Game…
Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820
The Life and Thought of John Gill (1697-1771): A Tercentennial Appreciation
This volume of essays focuses on the thought of John Gill, the doyen of High Calvinism in the transatlantic Baptist community of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among the topics covered are Gill's trinitarian theology, his soteriological views, his Baptist ecclesiology, and his use of Scripture. Other papers are more focused, examining, for instance, his clash with the Arminian Methodist leader John Wesley over the issues of predes…
Negotiating 'New' Narratives: Rio de Janeiro and the “Media Geography” of the 2014 Fifa World Cup
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is currently in the midst of an extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential and dilemmas of utilizing mega-events to advance an urban agenda, less understood is the role that media play in the construction of the 'media geography' of mega-events. This research examines the collective narratives crafted by five Western international n…
Toronto's Olympic Aspirations: A Bid for the Waterfront 1
For more than 50 years Toronto, Ontario, Canada has sought to host the Olympic Games. This article argues that Toronto's quest to win the right to host does not emerge from a love of sport, but rather stems from the city's inability to define the meaning and purpose of its water-front. Through merging the symbolic power of sport with the spatial significance of Toronto's waterfront land, various interest groups have used bids for the Olympic Game…
Rescaling Ambitions: Waterfront Governance and Toronto's 2015 Pan American Games
Toronto is a rare global city because negotiating public land ownership remains a defining feature of the city's urban politics. The awarding of the 2015 Pan American Games to Toronto is a prime occasion to witness how fragmented governance can limit the ambition and enthusiasm of a sporting mega‐event. Historically, Toronto has not been known for its ability to host large‐scale sporting events but it has recently used a series of failed Olympic …
Projecting the Metropolis: Paris 2024 and the (re)scaling of metropolitan governance
Rethinking Lactation Space: Working Mothers, Working Bodies, and the Politics of Inclusion
The 2001 dedication of the Lactation Support Program at Virginia Tech launched an initiative meant to support the needs of breastfeeding employees and the progressive image of the university as a family-friendly institution. While the program created clean, comfortable, private spaces to express breastmilk, the institutionalization of lactation spaces in university construction policy was not accompanied by a planned education piece and consequen…
Sport mega event planning in Toronto: From a democratic demand to a democratic demise
Key Messages Urban geographers need to consider how even bidding for a mega event has the potential to configure/reconfigure the politics of local economic development. Provincially‐led rescaling challenges the role of the public in Toronto's mega event development process. The continued depoliticization of urban governance in Toronto is disconcerting
The Life and Thought of John Gill (1697-1771): A Tercentennial Appreciation
This volume of essays focuses on the thought of John Gill, the doyen of High Calvinism in the transatlantic Baptist community of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among the topics covered are Gill's trinitarian theology, his soteriological views, his Baptist ecclesiology, and his use of Scripture. Other papers are more focused, examining, for instance, his clash with the Arminian Methodist leader John Wesley over the issues of predes…
Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820
Toronto's Olympic Aspirations: A Bid for the Waterfront 1
For more than 50 years Toronto, Ontario, Canada has sought to host the Olympic Games. This article argues that Toronto's quest to win the right to host does not emerge from a love of sport, but rather stems from the city's inability to define the meaning and purpose of its water-front. Through merging the symbolic power of sport with the spatial significance of Toronto's waterfront land, various interest groups have used bids for the Olympic Game…
Micropolitan areas: Exploring the linkages between demography and land-cover change in the United States cities
Rethinking Lactation Space: Working Mothers, Working Bodies, and the Politics of Inclusion
The 2001 dedication of the Lactation Support Program at Virginia Tech launched an initiative meant to support the needs of breastfeeding employees and the progressive image of the university as a family-friendly institution. While the program created clean, comfortable, private spaces to express breastmilk, the institutionalization of lactation spaces in university construction policy was not accompanied by a planned education piece and consequen…
Rescaling Ambitions: Waterfront Governance and Toronto's 2015 Pan American Games
Toronto is a rare global city because negotiating public land ownership remains a defining feature of the city's urban politics. The awarding of the 2015 Pan American Games to Toronto is a prime occasion to witness how fragmented governance can limit the ambition and enthusiasm of a sporting mega‐event. Historically, Toronto has not been known for its ability to host large‐scale sporting events but it has recently used a series of failed Olympic …
Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consi
Sport mega event planning in Toronto: From a democratic demand to a democratic demise
Key Messages Urban geographers need to consider how even bidding for a mega event has the potential to configure/reconfigure the politics of local economic development. Provincially‐led rescaling challenges the role of the public in Toronto's mega event development process. The continued depoliticization of urban governance in Toronto is disconcerting
Negotiating 'New' Narratives: Rio de Janeiro and the “Media Geography” of the 2014 Fifa World Cup
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is currently in the midst of an extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential and dilemmas of utilizing mega-events to advance an urban agenda, less understood is the role that media play in the construction of the 'media geography' of mega-events. This research examines the collective narratives crafted by five Western international n…
Projecting the Metropolis: Paris 2024 and the (re)scaling of metropolitan governance
Does stadium construction drive surrounding urban development? Evidence from spatiotemporal impacts of large-scale stadiums in China
Political science (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Bidding (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works)