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Beijing Olympic Architecture 4625
Olympic Architecture: Beijing 2008, edited by Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, jointly published by Birkhauser Verlag, AG, PO Box 133 CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland and China Architecture & Building Press, 2008. 314 pp., illus. Price 39.90 [euro] Hbk. ISBN 978-3-7643-8834-8.
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Hosting high-profile events has increasingly become an important strategy for cities to boost urban growth and increase global visibility. The commercial success of the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984, for example, demonstrated that the mega event could be highly profitable, while the Seoul Olympics in 1988 showed that the Games could be a coming-of-age event for a rapidly developing society. Arguably, the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 involved even higher stakes: it aimed...
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