Groesch/Metzger > Candidates and Hosts - Olympic Games and Urban Planning (2005)

Conceptual and editorial work for the 20th issue of ”dérive – Journal for Urban Research“, Vienna about ”Olympic Games and Urban Planning“ compiled by Wiebke Grösch und Frank Metzger

With contributions from:
Wiebke Grösch/Frank Metzger
”Candidates and Hosts – Olympic Games and Urban Planning“

Virginie Lefebvre
(Lecturer for Urban Planning, Harvard University, Cambridge/USA)
”Los Angeles and Atlanta. The temporary Infrastructure of the Olympic Games: Event-Architecture“

Wiebke Grösch/Frank Metzger
”After the Olympics– Olympic Villages after the Games“

Maria-Dolors García-Ramón and Abel Albet i Mas
(Professors for Geography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
”Pre- and Postolympic Barcelona– a Model for Urban Planning today?“

Bill Risebero
(Architect and Planner, London)
”Planning Games“

Dr. Matthias Bernt
(Political Scientist, Leipzig)
”Big Dreams in a Shrinking City: Looking back on Leipzigs Olympic Bid“

Harry Ladis
(Lawyer and Journalist, Thessaloniki/Greece)
”Olympic Siege“

(All articles are published in german)

„dérive“, No. 20 has been released in July 2005
http://www.derive.at