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February 09, 2005
NYC2012
Some quotes, fodder, in prep of the forthcoming short history of IOC bid city corruption I'm posting here at Transfer. A prep as IOC reps head to NYC for their final appraisal next month. The host city for the 2012 Olympics will be chosen in July of this year.
“Geography is too important to be left to geographers. But it is far too important to be left to generals, politicians, and corporate chiefs. Notions of ‘applied’ and ‘relevant’ geography pose questions of objectives and interests served. The selling of ourselves and the geography we make to the corporation is to participate directly in making their kind of geography, a human landscape riven with social inequality and seething geopolitical tensions.” –David Harvey
“The Atlanta boys had studied the Olympics blueprint. First, choose a neighborhood with no sports venues. Set up your committee of politicians and businessmen and announce your Olympic campaign, motivated by love of country and municipality… Talk a lot about Olympic Idealism…Pass dream laws giving yourself power to seize property for commercial redevelopment – in the public interest. Mix public and private money, divide up the contracts between your friends. Get rich.” -Andrew Jennings
The Olympics would “trigger a cataclysmic change in an area that’s essentially worthless”
-Daniel L. Doctoroff New York Times, November 3, 2002
“It’s a working class neighborhood and a service neighborhood. The fact that there are garages, carpentry shops or auto showrooms does not mean that they are expendable.”
-Simone Sindin, Chairwomen of Community Board 4 New York Times, November 3, 2002
“Neighborhood by neighborhood, land use vacancies and re-zoning are created to make more room for luxury housing and office space without forethought to the comprehensive impact on our cities total economic base” -Hell’s Kitchen South: Developing Strategies.
Posted by jmarston at February 9, 2005 12:19 PM