Tag: Valerio della Sala

In his book Olympic Villages and Urban Development: Analysis of Spatial Models and Geographic Transformations (Peter Lang), Valerio della Sala proposes an innovative analysis of Olympic urban planning in general, and of Olympic Villages in particular, which aims to consolidate the field of study that Olympic urban planning represents. Our sport geography expert Karin Book offers both praise and criticism of the book, which has laudable ambitions in relating Olympic villages to urban development in general, but lamentable flaws in applying theory to the empirical analyses, and in the presentation of the study throughout the book.