Eva Kassens Noor: 2 books
Planning Olympic Legacies
Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion...
by Yu-Min Joo, Yooil Bae, Eva Kassens-Noor
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea’s strategic use of mega-events in its modern development. It examines the Summer Olympics (1988), the World Expo (1993), the FIFA World Cup (2002), and the Winter Olympics (2018) over the past 30 years of the country’s rapid growth, and across...