'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins 'Gillard's detailed investigation makes for a stunning and shocking read' ...

This book is about that process of renewal, with a focus on the period following the 2012 Games and the diverse social, political and cultural implications of London’s use of the narrative of legacy.

Discussing the lessons that can be learned for the future staging of sporting mega-events, this book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in sport, policing, crime and criminology, mega-events, event management, urban studies ...

The book asks who won, and who lost out, in this important event as well as exploring its media coverage and legacy.

This book describes how London became the site for the 2012 Olympic Games.

In the summer that saw the first successful flight of the Zeppelin, a 140 acre site of scrubland in West London was transformed into the White City, which housed the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition - and a state-of-the-art stadium built to ...

The Mega-Event City Gavin Poynter, Valerie Viehoff, Yang Li. London 2012 Olympic Games within a complex network ... Olympics is that the legacy plans for urban regenera- tion are more likely to be successful when a site is chosen ...

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an officially-licensed account of the world's greatest sporting and cultural event.

... Olympic delivery needed to temporarily re-imagine Great Britain as an inclusive host of “London 2012” and, in the process, eliminate exclusive aspects of identity. To accomplish this lofty aim, the Olympic deliverers had to create a ...

... London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games . It is the second report by the National Audit Office on the preparations for hosting the Games . The main focus of our work for this report was on the process following the International Olympic ...