Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space: Lasting Legacies? (1st ed. 2017 edition.)

This work evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids.

Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities.

Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from one bid project to the next.