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Study Comprehending the London Olympic Legacy 2012

London Olympics Legacy Masterplan

According to the Bid book for the 2012 Olympic Games (LOGOC, 2012) there were five main concepts behind the organisation of the Games in London.

The motto of the 2012 Games was ‘Inspire a generation’.

- Delivering the experience of a lifetime to athletes.

- Leaving a legacy for sport in the UK. Nation wide sports development

- Benefiting the community though regeneration.

- Supporting the IOC and the Olympic movement.

- Compact, iconic and well-connected venues.

Understanding the key moves taken in the legacy framework

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Meaningful Spaces

Transport and Communicaiotion connections

+ Olympic Park very well redeveloped toward a more human sized scale.

+ Stratford Centre, Hackney, East Village are all designed according a specific urban morphology.

+ No big empty spaces left after redevelopment.

+ Multiple regional connections through metro lines

+ National connections through Stratford international.

+ Neighbourhood clusters are individualy served

+ No need to use the park in commuting

Public Congregation Spaces

The objective for the park is a “successful and accessible park with worldclass sporting venues offering leisure space for local people, arenas for thrilling sport, enticing visitor entertainment and a busy programme of sporting, cultural and community events to attract visitors” (LLDC, 2015).

The place will be “a new heart for east London, securing investment from across London and beyond, attracting and nurturing talent to create, design and make world-beating 21st-century goods and services, and becoming a place where local residents and new arrivals choose to live, work and enjoy themselves, and where businesses choose to locate and invest” (LLDC, 2015).

+ Multiple open spaces in every neigborhood

+ Connected to main roads

+ Creation of a large playground and sport facilities for individual and teamsport in the Nothern part

- No distinctive sport facilities in the Southern erea

+ Multitude of connections within the Olympic park by new bridges and ongoing roads.

- Fewer convinient connections around LLDC area and across major roads systems

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