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No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch
Chris Dempsey
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Description for No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch
Hardback. A play-by-play account of how No Boston Olympics rallied Massachusetts residents to reject an Olympic bid Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 illus., 2 graphs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
In 2013 and 2014, some of Massachusetts' wealthiest and most powerful individuals hatched an audacious plan to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston. Like their counterparts in cities around the world, Boston's Olympic boosters promised political leaders, taxpayers, and the media that the Games would deliver incalculable benefits and require little financial support from the public. Yet these advocates refused to share the details of their bid and only grudgingly admitted, when pressed, that their plan called for billions of dollars in construction of unneeded venues. To win the bid, the public would have to guarantee taxpayer funds to ... Read more
In 2013 and 2014, some of Massachusetts' wealthiest and most powerful individuals hatched an audacious plan to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston. Like their counterparts in cities around the world, Boston's Olympic boosters promised political leaders, taxpayers, and the media that the Games would deliver incalculable benefits and require little financial support from the public. Yet these advocates refused to share the details of their bid and only grudgingly admitted, when pressed, that their plan called for billions of dollars in construction of unneeded venues. To win the bid, the public would have to guarantee taxpayer funds to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of New England
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781512600582
SKU
V9781512600582
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About Chris Dempsey
CHRIS DEMPSEY is a former Bain & Co. consultant and former Massachusetts assistant secretary of transportation, and was a cofounder and leader of No Boston Olympics. ANDREW ZIMBALIST is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. He is the author of many books, including Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble behind Hosting the Olympics and World Cup and ... Read more
Reviews for No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch
Dempsey and Zimbalist review how a group of concerned citizens drove the Olympics from Boston, and offer other cities reasons and strategies for doing the same.
Publishers Weekly No Boston Olympics serves a larger purpose than storytelling. It is a primer on how an alert, educated, energetic group of citizens can challenge the plans, the arrogance, ... Read more
Publishers Weekly No Boston Olympics serves a larger purpose than storytelling. It is a primer on how an alert, educated, energetic group of citizens can challenge the plans, the arrogance, ... Read more