Rio 2016 : Olympic Myths, Hard Realities /
"Rio 2016 assembles the views of leading experts on Brazil and the Olympics into a clear-eyed assessment of the impact of the games on Brazil in general and on the lives of Cariocas, as Rio's residents are known"--Publisher's website
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "welcome to hell" / Andrew Zimbalist
- The Olympics in the twenty-first century : where does Rio 2016 fit in? / Jules Boykoff
- Brazil's Olympic rollercoaster / Juliana Barbassa
- Not everyone has a price : how the small favela of Vila Autódromo's fight opened a path to Olympic resistance / Theresa Williamson
- Architecture and urban design : the shaping of Rio 2016 Olympic legacies / Renata Latuf de Oliveira Sanchez and Stephen Essex
- Strictly confidential : access to information and the media in Rio / Jamil Chade
- Safety for whom? : securing Rio for the Olympics / Juliana Barbassa
- Green games : the Olympics, sustainability, and Rio 2016 / Jules Boykoff
- The economic legacy of Rio 2016 / Andrew Zimbalist.