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Article

23 Aug 2017

Author:
Matthew Ponsford, Thomas Reuters Foundation (USA)

Plans for Tokyo & Los Angeles Olympics aim to minimize negative impacts on local communities & the environment

"Interview- Future Olympics: no evictions, no grand designs", 3 August 2017

 Future Olympics can be built without taxpayer money or a single eviction... according to the architect planning two of the next Games... Hanway envisions a break from the major disruption of past Olympic developments, which games watchdogs said displaced more than 2 million residents, sometimes violently, in the two decades between Seoul in 1988 and Beijing in 2008... In an interview, Hanway set out a more sustainable Olympic future - one of community-backed masterplans, pop-up venues, renovated stadia, and modular handball courts that can be shipped to other cities or transformed into schools... According to the International Olympic Committee, the 2024 and 2028 games will be the first to fully embrace its new sustainability drive and use a record number of temporary facilities...  "We're not impacting a single residential location and not disrupting any businesses in our entire planning process for the (LA) Olympic Games," said Bill Hanway [head of global sports for architectural and engineering giant AECOM]... Organisers have a responsibility to show communities how the Games respond to their needs... and to minimise the number of residents disenfranchised by any development.