A critical examination of sydney’s 2000 olympic games

Festival and Events Management: An International Arts and Culture Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 391-408

  Waitt, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069599897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780080477701-37     Document Type: Chapter

References (56)

1. Angel, J. (1993). Sydney’s Olympic bid fails key environmental test. Total Environment Centre Media Release, 17 June.
2. Araud, P. and Riordan, P. (1998). Sport and International Politics: The Impact of Fascism and Communism on Sport. New York: Routledge.
3. Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council (ANZECC/NHMRC) (1992). Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Contaminated Sites. Melbourne: ANZECC/NHMRC.
4. Bacon, W. (1993). Watchdog’s bark muffled. Reportage, September, 3-5.
5. Badcock, B. (1997). Recently observed polarizing tendencies and Australian cities. Australian Geographical Studies, 35(3), 243-259.
6. Bale, J. and Sang, J. (1996). Kenyan Running. Movement Culture, Geography and Global Change. London: Frank Cass.
7. Baudrillard, J. (1988). America. London: Verso.
8. Baum, S. (1997). Sydney, Australia: a global city? Testing the social polarization thesis. Urban Studies, 34(11), 1881-1903.
9. Beder, S. (2000). Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism. Revised edition. Melbourne: Scribe Publications.
10. Bonnemaison, S. (1990). City policies and cyclical events. Design Quarterly, 147, 24-32.
11. Booth, D. and Tatz, C. (1993-94). Sydney 2000: the games people play, Current Affairs Bulletin, 70, 4-11.
12. Bounds, M. and Morris, A. (2001). Economic restructuring and gentrification in the inner city. A case study of Pyrmont Ultimo. Australian Planner, 38(3), 128-132.
13. Boyle, M. (1997). Civic boosterism in the politics of local economic development - ‘institutional positions’ and ‘strategic orientations’ in the consumption of hallmark events. Environment and Planning A, 29, 1975-1997.
14. Brantlinger, P. (1983). Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
15. Connell, J. and Gibson, C. (2002). Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place. London and New York: Routledge.
16. Cox, K. and Mair, A. (1988). Locality and community in the politics of local economic development. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 78, 307-325.
17. Cox, K. and Wood, A. (1994). Local government and local economic development in the United States. Regional Studies, 28, 640-645.
18. Daly, M.T. (1982). Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
19. Darcy, S. and Veal, A.J. (1994). The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: the story so far. Leisure Options: Australian Journal of Leisure and Recreation, 4(1), 5-14.
20. Dunn, K.M. and McGuirk, P.M. (1999). Hallmark events. In Staging the Olympics: the event and its impact (R. Cashman and A. Hughes, eds). Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp. 18-34.
21. Harvey, D. (1989). The Condition of Post modernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Blackwell.
22. Hawley, J. (1992). An Olympian brawl over quay west. Sydney Morning Herald, 25 January, 38.
23. Hickie, J.D. (1993). ‘Editorial: Un-Australian Olympic Games. Sydney Morning Herald, 13 August, 12.
24. Hiller, H.H. (1995). Conventions as mega-events. Tourism Management, 16(5), 375-379.
25. Hodge, S. (1996). Disadvantage and ‘otherness’ in Western Sydney. Australian Geographical Studies, 34, 32-44.
26. Hogarth, M. (1997). The media, the community and the green games publicity. In The Green Games: A Golden Opportunity (R. Cashman and A. Hughes, eds), pp. 101-102. Proceedings of a conference organized by the Centre for Olympic Studies, The University of New South Wales, 12 September.
27. Jacobs, J.M. (1999). Staging difference: aestheticization and the politics of difference in contemporary cities. In Cities of Difference (R. Fincher and J.M. Jacobs, eds), pp. 252-278. London: The Guildford Press.
28. Jarvis, B. (1994). Transitory topographies: places, events, promotions and propaganda. In Place Promotion, the Use of Publicity and Marketing to Sell Towns and Regions (J.R. Gold and S.V. Ward, eds), pp. 181-194. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
29. Jonas, A. (1991). A place for politics in urban theory: the organization and strategies of urban coalitions. Urban Geography, 13, 280-290.
30. Kell, P. (2000). Good Sports: Australian Sport and the Myth of the Fair Go. Sydney: Pluto Press.
31. Kennedy, A. (1992). We’d win gold for burying head in the smog. Sydney Morning Herald, 5 June, 15.
32. Kotler, P., Haidder, D.H. and Rein, I. (1993). Marketing Places: Attracting Investment and Tourism to Cities, States and Nations. New York: Free Press.
33. Lash, S. (1990). The Sociology of Postmodernism. London: Routledge.
34. Lepani, B., Freed, G., Murphy, P. and McGillivray, A. (1995). The Economic Role of Cities: Australia in the Global Economy. Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS).
35. Ley, D. and Olds, K. (1988). Landscape as spectacle, world’s fairs and the culture of heroic consumption. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 6, 191-212.
36. McGeoch, R. (1994). Bid: How Australia Won the 2000 Games. Port Melbourne: Heinemann.
37. McGuirk, P.M., Winchester, H.P.M. and Dunn, K.M. (1996). Entrepreneurial approaches to urban decline: the Honeysuckle redevelopment in inner Newcastle, New South Wales. Environment and Planning A, 28, 1815-1841.
38. Mee, K. (1994). Dressing-up the suburbs: representations of Western Sydney. In Metropolis Now: Planning and the Urban in Contemporary Australia (K. Gibson and S. Watson, eds), pp. 60-77. Sydney: Pluto Press.
39. Mueller, W.S. and Fenton, D.M. (1989). Psychological and community issues. In The Planning and Evaluation of Hallmark Events (G.J. Syme, B.J. Shaw, D.M. Fenton and W.S. Mueller), pp. 250-262. Aldershot: Avebury.
40. Murphy, P. and Watson, S. (1990). Restructuring of Sydney’s Central Industrial Area: process and local impacts. Australian Geographical Studies, 28, 78-87.
41. North, S. and Cook, D. (1993). ‘Immediate’ benefits if Games come. Sydney Morning Herald, 17 June, 7.
42. O’Connor, K. and Stimson, R. (1995). The Economic Role of Cities: Economic Change and City Development, Australia, 1971-1991. Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development, Urban Futures Research Progam. Canberra: AGPS.
43. Owen, K.A. (2002). The Sydney 2000 Olympics and urban entrepreneurialism: local variations in urban governance. Australian Geographical Studies, 40, 323-336.
44. Palfreyman, R. (1997). The media, the community and the green games publicity. In The Green Games: A Golden Opportunity (R. Cashman and A. Hughes, eds), pp. 97-100. Proceedings of a conference organized by the Centre for Olympic Studies, The University of New South Wales, 12 September.
45. Property Services Group (1992). Briefing Documents on Site Remediation and Environmental Investigations at Home bush Bay, March 1992. Sydney: NSW Property Service Group.
46. Roche, M. (1994). Mega-events and urban policy. Annals of Tourism Research, 21, 1-19.
47. Scott, A.G. (1997). The cultural economy of cities. International Journal of Regional Research, 21, 323-339.
48. Sydney Olympic Bid Limited (SOBL) (1993). Sydney 2000 Olympics Bid, Bid Documents. Sydney: Sydney Olympics 2000 Bid Limited.
49. Waitt, G. (1999). Playing games with Sydney: marketing Sydney for the 2000 Olympics. Urban Studies, 36(7), 1055-1077.
50. Waitt, G. (2001). The Olympic spirit and civic boosterism: the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Tourism Geographies, 3(3), 249-278.
51. Waitt, G. (2003). Social impacts of the Sydney Olympics. Annals of Tourism Research, 30(1), 194-215.
52. Walmsley, D.J. and Weinand, H.C. (1997). Fiscal federalism and social well-being in Australia. Australian Geographical Studies, 28, 260-270.
53. Ward, S.V. and Gold, J.R. (1994). Introduction. In: Place Promotion: The Use of Publicity and Marketing to Sell Towns and Regions (J.R. Gold and S.V. Ward), pp. 1-18. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
54. Watson, S. (1990). Gilding the smokestacks: the new symbolic representations of deindustrialized regions. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 9, 59-70.
55. Withers, G., Clarke, R. and Johnston, K. (1995). Income Distribution in Australia: Recent Trends and Research. Canberra: AGPS.
56. Wood, A. (1993). Organizing for local economic development: local economic development networks and prospecting for industry. Environment and Planning A, 25, 1649-1661.