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Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City(Updated)
Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond
by Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffee, Dick Hobbs, Gary Armstrong
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by Ashgate
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-7945-5, ISBN: 0-7546-7945-4
"Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976, the defence of the spectacle has become the central feature of its planning, one that has assumed even greater prominence following the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Games and, ..."
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