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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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The Primary Pupils’ Knowledge Level about the Winter Olympic Games
Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine, 2016 The aim of this research was to find out the primary pupils´ knowledge level about the Winter Olympic Games in Banska Bystrica. The research file consisted of 261 second stage primary pupils, 145 boys and 116 girls at the age from 10 to 15, who ...
Karol Görner, Tomáš Kolofík
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Take Action: 2008 and Beyond [PDF]
, 2007 The Organizing Committee for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games issued the "Beijing Olympic Action Plan," which laid out guiding principles and a series of promises as part of Beijing's preparations to be host city.In 2003,Human Rights in China (HRIC ...
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The Impact of Successful Bid for 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games on Local Economic and Social Lives [PDF]
, 2023 Jiajun Li, Xinyi Wang, Shenghao Sun
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
Southern Spaces, 2006 This gateway looks back at Atlanta's Olympic Games ten years after the 1996 Opening Ceremony. Many of the links featured have become internet historic sites, not updated since the Olympic flame was extinguished.
S. Zebulon Baker
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, 2014 Nadine (Ingersoll) Kincaid \u2776 shares stories of her experience serving as a volunteer at four Olympic ...
Kincaid, Nadine Ingersoll, \u2776
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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Olympic legacy: The impact of the games on olympic host cities [PDF]
, 2015 The article deals with the concept of Olympic legacy. The analysis of some positive and negative cases of the Olympic Games impact was shown. The impact of the Olympic Games celebration on the host city was shown on an example of Athens 2004 and London ...
Гулігас, Алла Геннадіївна +1 more
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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