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Put out more (Olympic) flags
Article | Beijing 2008 | Human Rights
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 17/06/2008 - 08:06.
Feeding the Olympics
Article | 2012 Bid | 2012 Sustainability | Health | Legacy | Manor Gardens Allotments | Skills Training | Sustainability
A new report 'Feeding the Olympics' from the Soil Association, Sustain and the New Economics Foundation, calls on London 2012 to deliver on their promise to be the greenest and healthiest Games in terms of the food they provide, and sets out how this can be done:
"This report is a call to action for everyone involved in catering for the London 2012 Olympic Games, to ensure that the food served before, during and after the Games is local, seasonal and organic as was promised in London’s bid
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 15/12/2007 - 14:18.
LDA keeps its word! Open space at Eastway to close.
Article | Planning & Development
The LDA acknowledged there would be a loss of open space during the construction of the Olympic Park. I received the following information after several enquiries.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Thu, 09/11/2006 - 01:57.
Retail therapy
Remarkably, refutation of the inevitable benefits of hosting the Games is considered within the Olympic planning documents (Retail, Leisure and Sport Impact Assessment Appendices, Appendix 4 to the Environmental Statement, January 2004) as part of an attempt to calculate the amount and type of retail floor space that the Games could support. The Atlanta Games of 1996 was a retail disaster.
Submitted by Carolyn Smith on Sat, 04/11/2006 - 14:15.
Cash crisis looms
The £550 million funding for the London Olympics will initially come from London council tax payers, £1.5 billion from the National Lottery, followed by a further £75 million from council tax, and £250 million from the London Development Authority (LDA). The International Olympic Committee (IOC) insists that host cities underwrite all liabilities. £15 million was spent on the London bid alone (Blowe, 2004; 2005).
Submitted by Carolyn Smith on Fri, 03/11/2006 - 19:52.
Rising East Online September 2006 edition
Article | Planning & Development | Politics
Links to four articles in Rising East Online worth looking at
Regeneration Without End: Urban and Social Change in the East of London since the 1890s —William Mann;
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Mon, 16/10/2006 - 13:04.
Only one Hackney apprentice on Olympics site
Article | 2012 Construction | 2012 Jobs | 2012 Legacy | Jobs | Legacy | London 2012
The Hackney Citizen reports:
Only one Hackney apprentice on Olympics site: MP Diane Abbott slams low numbers of opportunities for local people
After discovering that only one apprentice working on the Olympics site comes from Hackney, local MP Diane Abbott has called on the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to address the low numbers of apprentices on the Olympic site as a matter of urgency.
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Mon, 15/03/2010 - 16:17.
Planning Displacement: The Real Legacy of Major Sporting Events
Article | Clays Lane | Compulsory Purchase | Displacement | Human Rights | London 2012 | Mega Events | Olympics Studies | Planning & Development | Vancouver 2010
Three Games, three eviction stories. In September 2009 Planning Theory and Practice Magazine published, in its Interface section, three articles on displacement caused by three different mega-events, the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The publication is attached.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Thu, 11/03/2010 - 21:18.



