Imagining legacy: development, resistance, and image-making in Boston and Los Angeles's Olympic bids.

This dissertation examines the role of spectacle events in global cities and the elite-driven transformation of the Olympic Games into producers of the urban image, with implications for determining who has the power to envision the urban future. While the spectacle of the Olympic Games is not new,...

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