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Bent Flyvbjerg has made a career of analyzing very large projects and why they turn out so badly. Lest we get smug in this techie corner of the world, he found
by AlbertCory 2y ago
Bent Flyvbjerg has made a career of analyzing very large projects and why they turn out so badly. Lest we get smug in this techie corner of the world, he found that large ERP projects are terrible even in the context of large projects. Anyhow:
This headline made me think, "So you're just now discovering this?" Montreal was a disaster; LA 1984 ran a surplus. Cities that already have the sports venues can do all right; other cities have learned by now that building a whole bunch of new stuff is foolhardy.
> To ensure true long-term viability of the Olympics, Matheson, Zimbalist and Phalin said it may come down to designating a single city or rotating through a couple of cities to serve as permanent hosts for the games.
Right: LA, London / Paris, Sydney. All of these could farm out some events to other places, like surfing in French Polynesia. Done.
- tzs 2y ago> This headline made me think, "So you're just now discovering this?" Montreal was a disaster; LA 1984 ran a surplus. Cities that already have the sports venues can do all right; other cities have learned by now that building a whole bunch of new stuff is foolhardy. Los Angeles 1984 had another plus besides having nearly all the sports venues already (they just needed to build a new velodrome and a new swim stadium). They also already had nearly everything they needed for Olympic Village and to house the athletes and teams. They used student housing at USC and UCLA. It was summer and both of those schools have a large number of undergraduates who go home for the summer which left plenty of rooms available for the Olympics.
- AlbertCory 2y agoI had moved out by then, but I remember all this scare talk beforehand about how it was going to be the traffic apocalypse from hell. AFAIK it was no big deal.