Olympic Villages and Urban Development

Brief Synopsis

One of the critical elements of my work is the relationship between urban transformation and its future implications in the territory, promoted by Olympic urban planning. Not being thoroughly analysed at the academic level and observing the lack of previous and comparative studies on the subject, it is stated that, given the complexity of the subject, a theoretical framework has been formulated that pursues the following research objectives. Observing the territorial impact of the Olympic Villages in the city, introducing new organisation models, and financing the Olympic event are considered essential in analysing the territorialisation and deterritorialisation processes linked to the territory and its transformation throughout the weather. This assumption made by Turco (1988) will be necessary for understanding the impact of the Olympic Village on the regional territory. The creation of new structures will cause territorial changes and recent incidents in the Olympic cities that will be difficult to remove shortly. After having established these concepts about the Olympic games and, therefore, about the territorial impact of the Olympic Villages, to analyse the effect over time, the study will examine the planning of the Olympic Village over time in all its development phases. Later, the research will explore the Olympic Games according to their specific function as urban catalysts provided by Muñoz (1996). Based on this concept of territorial link and affirming the importance of Olympic urban planning in the candidate cities, other contributions are presented to the infrastructural system and the event’s organisation in the Olympic cities. Thanks to this contribution, we can affirm the importance of Olympic urbanism as a catalyst for the future urban growth and development of the candidate cities. At the same time, the Olympic Village can generate new specific strategies for developing the territory and using space. The processes of territorialisation and regionalisation are fundamental to understanding the impact of the Olympic Village on the territory. Creating new structures will always entail territorial changes and further incidences in the internal connections of the city and the territory.

Meanwhile, the reports provided by the UN for the sustainable development of cities and mega sports events will be considered. The analysis will look at all documentation produced since the Agenda 2020 of Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the new guidelines for sustainable development in 2030. The importance of studying this issue through a new concept of observation about the different phases of the project and how it will change over time is affirmed. I want to underline the importance of my analytical study on the planning of the Olympic Village and its territorial impact. By proposing and defining a new development model for the candidate cities, it will be possible to rethink the Olympic Village as a temporary catalytic instrument. The research (see della Sala, 2022) proposes an innovative analysis of Olympic urban planning in general, and of Olympic Villages in particular, which will both consolidate the field of study that Olympic urban planning represents and offer a helpful document about the future construction of new Olympic Villages in the coming decades. The proposal aims to disseminate knowledge and propose new models of Olympic Village management in the post-Olympic period.