Olympics 2012: Legacy, Land Grabs and Liberties
Mark Saunders presentation at HafenCity Universität Hamburg department of Urban Design.
Thursday 13 Jan 2011. 7.30
In the Fog of Games the first casualty is the truth. The Olympics, like other sporting spectaculars, are only brief and transitory television events that disguise and justify Mega projects of vast urban restructuring that permanently distort our cities for the benefit of a few business interests . The common features of these Mega projects are unprecedented land grabs, the peddling of myths of “regeneration” and the “legacy” benefits for the host community, the sweeping away of democratic structures and planning restraints, the transfer of public money into private hands and “information management” to hid truths and silence critics.
Mark Saunders will be showing some “work in progress” extracts from Spectacle’s film on the London Olympics.
Zeit:
Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2011
19.00 Uhr
Ort:
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Averhoffstraße 38
Erdgeschoss, Raum 16 b
Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen der UD-Vortragsreihe “Feste feiern. Kollektivierungen urbaner Praxis”
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