Additional Resources

I thought it would make sense to add a brief list of online resources that could be interesting to scan...

• Historical roots of the Olympics
• The Olympic Studies Forum
• Texts by Researchers
• OMERO - Mega Events Observatory
• Resources - Bibliography
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People's Olympics

I was Googling Olympic images today and came across this....

[extract]
The People's Olympiad or People's Olympics (Spanish: Olimpiada Popular) was planned for Barcelona, Spain as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin during the period of Nazi rule. The newly elected, left wing, Popular Front government in Spain decided to boycott the Berlin Olympics and host their own games after their election in February 1936. Invitations were made to the nations of the world and it was planned to use the hotels built for the 1929 World's Fair as an Olympic Village. The games were scheduled to be held from July 19 to July 26 and would have therefore ended six days prior to the start of the Berlin games. In addition to the usual sporting events, the Barcelona games would have also featured chess, folkdancing, music and theatre.

The Real Sim City

BBC article from a few days ago is interesting for all kinds
of reasons - seems to resonate with both Axel's and Gerald's research as
well as (some of) what we were talking about...

Favorite quote:

"We used the idea of Sim City to develop a process where the community can
play games with their own future and see the consequences."

The Real Sim City
By Ben Sutherland
BBC News, Vancouver

The legendary computer game Sim City has been used as the basis for a new
programme which is being used to project what the world's cities will look
like in the future.

MetroQuest, a piece of software put together by Canadian developers