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Olympic Villages as Heterotopias: Contradictions between Megaevents and Quotidian Urban Life
University of São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7094-0175
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Architecture, Urban Design. (Critical Morphology (SAD))ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7089-4244
University of São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1598-9101
2022 (English)In: Housing, Theory and Society, ISSN 1403-6096, E-ISSN 1651-2278, Vol. 39, no 4, p. 420-441Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

As a showcase for ideal urban visions, Olympic Villages encompass the utopian disposition of the Olympic Games. More precisely, Olympic Villages could be understood as a heterotopia, a theorization that stems from an analysis of their historical, conceptual, and spatial evolution over the course of the Summer Olympic Games. Against this backdrop, we analysed some notable examples of Olympic Villages as we questioned the relationship between their proposed “legacies” and their subsequent integration in the urban realities of their host cities. We conclude that most Olympic Villages have not fulfiled their legacy role as proposed by the IOC. This suggests that we need to further explore the relationship between the host region’s urban development and the Olympic Games so that the desired “Olympic legacy” may become part of the daily life of the host cities.

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Informa UK Limited , 2022. Vol. 39, no 4, p. 420-441
Keywords [en]
Olympic villages, heterotopia, urban design, architecture, housing
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Architecture Human Geography
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Architecture; Architecture, Urban Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-306918DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1992497ISI: 000738528900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85122261597OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-306918DiVA, id: diva2:1624714
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