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2011 Lecture Series

Below you can find further information plus links to resources pages for each event that took place as part of the 2011 Lecture Series.

This year’s series focused on the following areas:

    
246 Days to Go: What Olympic legacy for London?

Thursday 24th November 2011
London Business School

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This event has taken place.

With 246 days to go until the opening of the Olympic Games, this event reviewed the current state of play in the planning and delivery of London’s Olympic legacy. Panel presentations explored the development of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after 2012 in the context of the wider regeneration of East London. The emerging value of real estate and commercial opportunities in the Park were considered in light of broader socio-economic strategies for the surrounding areas of the post-industrial city.
        

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Urban Governance: Exploring the political legacy of London 2012

Thursday 1st December 2011
King’s College, London

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This event has taken place.

This event considered the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in terms of the formation and transformation of urban governance structures such as the Olympic Park Legacy Company and the Mayoral Development Corporation. Panel presentations explored what kinds of entities these companies are and how they interface with existing central, London and local host borough governance bodies in order to plan and deliver London’s Olympic legacy as a regeneration project. The event drew upon the lessons of previous regeneration initiatives and explored the relationship between urban regeneration in the UK and the emergence of new kinds of strategic political partnerships.
    

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The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: What legacy for tourism?

Thursday 8th December 2011
University of Greenwich

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This event has taken place.

This event focused on the tourism legacy of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the 2012 Games. Panel presentations and answers to audience questions explored the relationship between tourism and mega-event legacies and how these relate to the broader regional tourist offer at the local and city-wide level. The event drew upon the lessons of previous regeneration initiatives and explored the emergence of new kinds of event programming opportunities and tourist economies.
   

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