London, Europe and the Olympic Games Ajay Kumar Virilio for Architects primes readers

Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century

and those on a wide range of professional training courses

The goal of this book is to address these issues

It argues that new modes of urban governance are

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London, Europe and the Olympic Games Ajay Kumar Virilio for Architects primes readersLondon hosted the Olympic Games for the third time in 2012, a mega event where the political, economic and social expectations could hardly be compared with the previous London Games of 1908 and 1948. In addition, the Olympic Games went back to Europe in 2012 after a long period where (apart from Athens in 2004) they were held by cities in other continents. In London, the world watched the Games. Continental Europe, however, generated a particular