Geographical Association

This issue includes articles on:

The Start Gallery - Paula Owens
A Yangtze Odyssey - Elaine Bell
Olympic Green – Green Olympics - Margaret Mackintosh
Tashi's Story - Tsering Paljor and Arthur J Kelly
Dragon Scales - Vanessa Richards
China: Images from an archive - Harpreet Sanghera
Can you smell the geography of Asian food? - Hakhee Kim
When East meets West: Yangzhou meets Hanley Castle - Barton Mathews
A to Z of China: An alphabet journey through China - Kate Russell
Making diversity real in teaching - Judy Ling Wong
The Globalisation of Modern Languages - Paul Gwilliam
The PG Interview - Helen Tse
Sweet Mandarin Dim Sum Masterclass - Helen Tse
Action Geography 6:Getting to know you - Colin Bridge

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This PowerPoint Presentation accompanies Kate's article A to Z of China: An alphabet journey through China. The websites mentioned in her article are accessible via the Websites page.

Teaching Geography Summer 2008 includes an article by Bob Digby entitled 'Teaching about the Beijing Olympics'. GA members who subscribe to Teaching Geography can download the article free from the Journals area, while non-members can purchase a PDF copy for £12.72 (inc. VAT).

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The Spring 2008 issue of Geography includes this article, also by Bob Digby, looking at the costs and benefits of holding such a large-scale event. GA members who subscribe to Geography can download the article free from the Journals area, while non-members can purchase a PDF copy for £12.72 (inc. VAT).

Another article by Bob Digby, this time in Teaching Geography Summer 2007, suggests how teachers might use the Olympics in their teaching about sustainability, the geographies of change, urban environments and globalisation. GA members who subscribe to Teaching Geography can download the article free from the Journals area, while non-members can purchase a PDF copy for £12.72 (inc. VAT).

Four resources accompanying the article are available to download free from the Sydney 2000 page.

Brian Chalkley; Stephen Essex
Planning Perspectives 14 (4), Routledge, 1999

This paper reviews the effects of the Olympics on the urban environment of the various cities which have acted as hosts in the modern Olympic period (1896-1996). The material outlines the varied motivations for staging the Games and examines their outcomes in terms of urban development.

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Noam Shoval
Journal of Urban Affairs 24 (5), Blackwell Synergy, 2002

This article contends that it is possible to identify the beginning of a new phase in the development of the Olympic Games. The question asked is why are cities like New York and London so interested in hosting the Olympic Games?

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Jian Feng et al
Eurasian Geography and Economics 48 (5), Bellwether Publishing Ltd, 2007

This paper includes a section on developments in Beijing since 2000, citing data on population, scarcity of affordable housing, traffic congestion, and industrial and residential relocation, relating in part to the forthcoming Olympic Games in 2008.

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Christopher J. Smith, Katie M. G. Himmelfarb
Eurasian Geography and Economics 48 (5), Bellwether Publishing Ltd, 2007

Two American geographers comment on the preceding analysis of restructuring of Beijing's social space (Feng et al., 2007) by presenting observations on the city's Olympic Games, forthcoming in the summer of 2008. The authors focus on some of the more salient geographical impacts stemming from construction, relocation, and related measures undertaken by the authorities to accommodate the event. Included in the paper are sections on environmental concerns (particularly air pollution), infrastructure (water supply, automobile traffic, and mass transit), and relocation and displacement of residents (particularly of migrants and other disadvantaged segments of the population).

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John Bale
Routledge, 2002

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