After the pop-up games
London's never-ending regeneration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ameeth Vijay (0000-0002-0237-8280, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7075, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 425-443 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d13169p |
| OpenAlex | W2276228694 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper examines the temporality of urban planning in contemporary London, especially with regard to the 2012 Olympic Games. I argue that planners and officials deployed a rhetoric of permanence to validate not only the Games themselves, but also the costly development and infrastructural changes in the city as well as human displacements. Specifically, a decentralized network of planners, officials, consultants, and administrators used temporal concepts such as 'legacy', 'sustainability', and 'regeneration' in describing the benefits of hosting the Games, all of which purposely ignored the temporary and unsustainable nature of the two-week sporting event. I further argue that this rhetoric could be sustained only through an implication that the Olympic site-and East London as a whole-was in a state of ruin, a state which could be ameliorated through the production of this sporting 'mega-event'. Above all, the Olympics attempt to rhetorically mitigate their own temporary, 'pop-up' quality for the sake of an urban settler colonialism
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Geography · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Quality (philosophy · Regeneration (biology · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science · Sustainability · Temporality · Urban regeneration · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Writing Culture
The Rise of the Creative Class
Risk, Environment and Modernity
Imperial Debris
Urban regeneration for the London 2012 Olympics
Olympic Cities
Understanding the Olympics
Back the Bid”
Visibilities and Invisibilities in Urban Development
Sanitizing Public Space in Olympic Host Cities
Sustainable Development, Shock and Awe? London 2012 and Civil Society
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |