London's Olympic Legacy: The Inside Track

The London 2012 Games

‘London’s Olympic Legacy: The Inside Track’ – a new book from Dr Gillian Evans, of The University of Manchester, provides a unique perspective on the behind-the-scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy told in a compelling and accessible style.

Dr Evans, a lecturer in social anthropology, gives unprecedented access to the legacy organisations, institutions, and individuals involved with the 2012 Games. She gained unrivalled insight into the unfolding drama as attempts were made in London to harness the juggernaut of Olympic development, and its commercial imperative, to the broader cause of meaningful post-industrial regeneration in East London.

Evans argues that London will become the test-case city against which the legacies of all future Olympic Games, and other sporting mega-events, will be judged. London’s Olympic Legacy provides the first in-depth case study of a mega-event legacy planning operation, and details the lessons to be learnt from London's experience.

Exploring the relationship between mega event planning, and post-industrial urban regeneration, this book will appeal to the general reader, as well as to scholars across Sociology, Sport and Olympic studies, Anthropology, Urban Studies and Geography, and also policymakers and practitioners in urban and sport planning.

Topics included within London’s Olympic Legacy:

• From London to Rio with Love: lessons on Olympic legacy
• A Gold Medal for Boris Johnson: champion of the piggy back politics of populism
• Unsung Heroes: the drama behind the scenes of London's Olympic legacy
• Brexit Britain: why we are all post-industrial now
• West Ham kicks off: how the Olympic Stadium became the political football of London's 2012 legacy