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1. The Making of Olympic Cities

   Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   In the first forty or so years following its revival at the end of the nineteenth century, the burdens placed on cities hosting a modern Olympic Games were relatively modest. However, as the Games have grown in size and stature, morphing from a small-scale summer festival into an intensively...

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Olympic Cities

   City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2016, 2nd Edition

   Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Providing a full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events, this substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Its coverage takes account of important new scholarship as well as adding reflections on the experience of...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
3. The Practice of Modernism

   Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972

   By John R. Gold

   In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design. Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the...

   Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge
4. Olympic Cities

   City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 to 2012

   Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Olympic Cities provides the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With eighteen specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of distinguished international authors, it explores the historical experience of staging the...

   Published September 30th 2006 by Routledge
5. Representing the Environment

   By John R. Gold, George Revill

   Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts

   The development of the environmental movement has relied heavily upon written and visual imagery. Representing the Environment offers an introductory guide to representations of the environment found in the media, literature, art and everyday life encounters. Featuring case studies from Europe, the...

   Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge
6. The Experience of Modernism

   Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53

   By John R. Gold

   Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1928-1953, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the Modern Movement's architectural role in reshaping the fabric and structure of British metropolitan cities in the...

   Published November 26th 1997 by Taylor & Francis