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Securing the games

Securing the games
Securing the games
Since the 1970s, safety and security, and the management of incivility, have become key issues for Games organisers (Fussey and Coaffee, 2011; Bennett and Haggerty, 2011), spreading beyond event-based venues to the wider urban realm. Concerns for security, resulting from the fear of international terrorist attacks at international mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, and against the associated crowded places and critical infrastructure of the host city, has also meant that security is increasingly designed into the regenerating built environment and embed-ded within the behaviours and practices of those responsible for construction and securing of the Olympic venues and sites (Coaffee and Fussey, 2010). Nowhere in Olympic history is this more obvious than in the preparation for the 2012 Summer Games in London.


Taylor & Francis
Coaffee, J.
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Fussey, P.
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Girginov, Vassil
Coaffee, J.
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Fussey, P.
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Girginov, Vassil

Coaffee, J. and Fussey, P. (2012) Securing the games. In, Girginov, Vassil (ed.) Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Volume One: Making the Games. London. Taylor & Francis. (doi:10.4324/9780203132517).

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Since the 1970s, safety and security, and the management of incivility, have become key issues for Games organisers (Fussey and Coaffee, 2011; Bennett and Haggerty, 2011), spreading beyond event-based venues to the wider urban realm. Concerns for security, resulting from the fear of international terrorist attacks at international mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, and against the associated crowded places and critical infrastructure of the host city, has also meant that security is increasingly designed into the regenerating built environment and embed-ded within the behaviours and practices of those responsible for construction and securing of the Olympic venues and sites (Coaffee and Fussey, 2010). Nowhere in Olympic history is this more obvious than in the preparation for the 2012 Summer Games in London.


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Published date: 2012

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Local EPrints ID: 495058
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/495058
PURE UUID: 1aa89e34-9199-4d32-85d2-ae13ef1e25e2
ORCID for P. Fussey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1374-7133

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Author: J. Coaffee
Author: P. Fussey ORCID iD
Editor: Vassil Girginov

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