Planning the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

This book is the first volume to provide a comprehensive account of mega-event planning for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It offers a useful summary of the themes and debates relating to urban planning for the Paris Olympics, based on the results of a research programme (Observatory for Research on Mega-Event) funded by Gustave Eiffel University and Paris Est University and partly carried out with the organisers of the Games and their stakeholders. The authors address all aspects of the bidding process, the organisation of the Games and the construction of the social legacy of the Games.

Introduction.- Paris 2024, a legacy of previous bids?.- Paris 2024: The media coverage of an uncontroversial candidacy.- The urban sustainability of Paris 2024: achievements and pitfalls.- The Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Steering a “Major Project” Like Any Other?.- Generation 2024: the Expectations and Disappointments of Promoting Sports Activities Through Use of a Label.- Leisure space and Olympic venue. Combining practices at Vaires-sur-Marne water-sports stadium.- Planning a Paris 2024 event away from the capital:  the surfing competition at Teahupo'o.- Hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris: the standpoint of sports people with disabilities.- Image’ change linked to Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Seine-Saint-Denis and Tourism: a possible legacy?.- Preparing the legacy of the Games. Women’s participation in sport activities in the public spaces in Paris.

Marie Delaplace is Emeritus Professor in planning and regional development in the Paris School of Ubanism (EUP, Gustave Eiffel University, Paris, France), conducting her research within the Lab'urba laboratory. She has notably worked on local economic development associated with High-Speed Rail, Tourism and the Olympic Games.

Pierre-Olaf Schut is Professor of sport history at the University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France. He is deputy director of the research department ACP and sport sciences department.