Why was stratford chosen as the site for the olympics

Sports — continuing elite success, development of more sports facilities and encouraging participation in schools sports and wider 3. Social and volunteering — inspiring others to volunteer and encouraging social change 4.

Regeneration — reuse of venues, new homes, and improved transportation. The key for this unit is Legacy point 4 — urban regeneration. Urban Regeneration is the whole sale improvement of the buildings and infrastructure of an area. The Olympic athletes village was converted to a new housing area in London.

Eventually the whole Olympic Parkland will become five new neighbourhoods housing 8, people. The Olympics has helped schools in the area — there was a shortage of spaces but a new school opened in the grounds of the park. Chobham Academy will cover all levels of education.

The aquatics centre now uses its 50m pools as facilities for the community and schools, as well as elite athletes. During the construction of the Olympics, very few jobs were created for local people. There are still high levels of unemployment in the borough and it was a missed opportunity to train people up for work. Urban Regeneration is the improvement of the buildings and infrastructure of an area. Gentrification is the process by which older often run down parts of the city, often close to the city centre, become culturally desirable, so wealthier people move in and change the area.

Some of the park was invested by TNCS. Studentification is the gradual change social and environmental of an area of a the city by the arrival of increasing numbers of students and the conversion of older, often 19th century, houses into student flats by subdividing large properties.

Stevens, A. Wihbey, J. Olympics and their economic impact: Updated research roundup. Zimbalist, In World Economics, 16, issue 1, p. Accessed 17 January Imagine that you live in the area that is going to be transformed by the Games. This site has a great number of additional sources that you could explore, for example if you are looking at the Olympics for the purposes of an extended essay.

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