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The sterile pleasure garden 8 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
A view across the Olympic ParkI visited the recently opened part of the Olympic Park on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year to have a look around. It took a while to take it all ...
Sick! Olympic Park 'river of death' to be dyed lurid green for festival finale 27 Jul 2013 | 10:47 pm
As part of the London Olympic Park reopening festival artists Bompas and Parr will contaminate the River Lea - which has suffered unprecedented pollution-related fish kills this week - with bulk quant...
Fish killed in the River Lea. Pushed to their limits by environmental mismanagement 24 Jul 2013 | 12:08 am
Fish were killed in numbers on Tuesday July 23 by Oxygen depletion of the River Lee downstream of Deephams sewage works in Tottenham. Climate change has created the conditions for an exceptional heatw...
Back to the future? Urban transformation and public protest in Rio de Janeiro 5 Jul 2013 | 09:42 pm
by Matthew Richmond Protesters display a banner of Mayor Eduardo Paes and State Governor Sergio Cabral holding Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ statue hostage. The banner below reads “Who gives the ord...
A Bankrupt Field of Dreams 1 May 2013 | 09:05 pm
The fraught disputes over how best to recoup the high construction and maintenance costs of the London Olympic stadium conform to a pattern previously seen elsewhere in England and abroad. The story o...
To the Manor born - 15% affordable housing in the Aftermath Zone? 23 Apr 2013 | 08:41 am
Back in September Games Monitor reported that the amount of affordable housing in the Aftermath Zone (it's time to think of some more imaginative names than the QEII Park - suggestions welcome) would ...
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The London Olympics and the state we’re in 29 Mar 2013 | 07:13 pm
The personal story of Olympic pundit, filmmaker and journalist, Mike Wells: an entertaining yet troubling tale of wrongful imprisonment and intrigue. Wells uses the London Olympics as a lens through w...
Some Shortcomings of Olympic success 29 Mar 2013 | 12:00 am
In a house in the London suburb of Ealing, hired for the occasion by a film company, an actor playing the part of an average guy, is checking in a mirror how he looks in his recently bought shirt. Out...
Another Olympic Cycling Legacy - Critical Mass Convictions 18 Mar 2013 | 09:30 pm
Five of the 182 Critical Mass cyclists arrested for riding their bikes near the Olympic Park on the evening of the Opening Ceremony were finally convicted of breaching section 12 of the Public Order A...
