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AbstractRecently scholars have become interested in how the Olympic Games can create a positive legacy for the cities that host them. These benefits often include state‐of‐the‐art sports facilities, improved transportation infrastructure and beautification projects, such as the creation of parks. Stimulated by the Olympic Games, cities may embark on large‐scale urban development projects that may otherwise not be carried out or would be carried out on a much more limited scale. As cities now compete for hosting the Olympic Games, they often try to gain an advantage over other candidate cities by starting some of the projects before submitting their bid documents. Therefore, even an unsuccessful bid may arguably be beneficial. In this article, I describe Berlin's planning goals and overall concept for the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as the individual projects that were planned. I then discuss why some of these projects have been realized despite the failed bid, while others were abandoned. I argue that the bid provided a stimulus for the improvement of some sports facilities in Berlin because these projects complemented wider planning goals, while other projects were eventually carried out due to other landmark events, such as the move of the federal government to the city.Résumé Des études se sont intéressées récemment à la façon dont les Jeux olympiques peuvent laisser un héritage positif dans leurs villes d'accueil. Ces atouts comptent souvent des installations sportives ultramodernes, une amélioration des infrastructures de transport et des projets d'embellissement, telle la création de parcs. Sous l'impulsion des J.O., des villes se lancent parfois dans de vastes projets d'urbanisme qui, sinon, n'auraient pas existé ou auraient été réalisés à une échelle bien plus modeste. Désormais, étant donnée la compétition entre les villes candidates, celles‐ci tentent souvent de prendre le pas sur leurs concurrentes en démarrant certains projets avant même le dépôt de leur dossier. En conséquence, même une candidature rejetée peut, d'une certaine manière, être profitable. Cet article décrit les objectifs d'aménagement et le concept d'ensemble proposés par Berlin pour les J.O. d'été de 2000, ainsi que les différents projets prévus. Il analyse ensuite pourquoi certains de ces projets ont vu le jour malgré le refus du dossier, d'autres étant abandonnés. La candidature a procuré l'élan nécessaire à une amélioration d'installations sportives berlinoises, car ces projets venaient en complément d'objectifs d'aménagement plus larges; par ailleurs, d'autres projets ont finalement abouti dans le cadre d'autres grands événements, comme le transfert du gouvernement fédéral à Berlin.

ABSTRACTThe scale of movement of international students has increased dramatically in the post‐war period, with the United States acting as a major destination owing partly to a good education system and generous funding of graduate studies. Officially, these migrations are expected to be temporary and visa restrictions are applied accordingly; in reality many international students never return to their home countries. Despite the large number of international students in the United States, little research has been done about this group of professional migrants. Using focus group interviews, we investigate the factors that motivate students to stay in the United States or return home on completion of their degrees. We identify three categories of motivating factors: professional, societal, and personal. Among our study participants, professional factors were generally cited as encouraging the students to stay in the United States, while societal and personal factors were more likely to draw them back to their home countries, although wide variations existed among individuals. Our results suggest that certain patterns exist among national groups. These operated in two main ways. First, specific characteristics of the home country (such as difficult political circumstances) provided state‐specific influences on the decision‐making process. Second, the relative weight assigned to each of the three groups of factors appeared to differ among national groups.

This article examines the changing approaches to historic preservation of half-timbered houses in Quedlinburg, Germany. Under the East German (GDR) regime, the scarcity of funds and materials limited preservation measures. After the German reunification, the conditions improved significantly, and Quedlinburg became the largest historic preservation project in the country. The difficulties in enforcing the high preservation standards and the conflicts arising over certain aspects of the project clearly demonstrate the need for integrating historic preservation projects with general urban planning to meet the needs of both preservationists and inhabitants of the city.

"Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments. It encourages students to evaluate population issues critically, given that population topics are at the heart of many of today's most contentious subjects. Through introducing students to different lenses of analysis (ecological, economic and social equity), the authors ask students to consider how different perspectives can lead to different conclusions on the same issue. Identifying and tackling today's population problems therefore requires an understanding of these diverging, and sometimes conflicting, perspectives. The text will cover all the key background information critical to any book on population geography (population size, distribution, and composition; fertility, mortality, and migration; population and resources), but will also push students to think critically about the materials they have covered using these twin lenses of sustainability and social justice. In this way, students move beyond simple fact learning towards higher-level skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of materials. This textbook will be a valuable resource for students of human geography, population geography, demography and diaspora studies"--

This volume of essays highlights the autobiogeographies of eight selected geographers who are university faculty members and work and reside in the United States. Drawing from various geographical narratives, the contributors explore their trajectories and how they have navigated their personal and professional transnational livelihoods in the United States.

Exploring the worldwide boom in immigration, this book traces the profound changes in urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity. Each chapter addresses the significance of urban space and local context in developing various ethnic economies and how ethnic economies have helped to re-create urban neighborhoods. With its international scope and rich case studies, this book will be invaluable for scholars and students alike in the fields of ethnic studies, urban studies, economic development, geography, and sociology

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East — and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence — creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.