Titlebook: London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City; A Hollow Legacy? Phil Cohen,Paul Watt Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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s and planned Olympic mega-events in similar host cities.QueThis book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise. Cohen and Watt consider the lessons tha

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‘The Best New Place to Live’? Visual Research with Residents in East Village and E20pectacle and the penetration of the market. What emerges is a place that has not yet been fully inscribed with meaning, but is rather struggling to find its own meaning in the midst of the Olympic hype.

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Contesting Community on London 2012’s Olympic Fringecultural centre. The chapter documents and analyses how ‘community’ is understood, defined, constructed and idealised within the London 2012 regeneration process – and why different definitions reveal the tensions, and crucially, the power dynamics at play within the ‘Regeneration Games’.

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Youth Transitions and Legacies in an East London Olympic Host Boroughning how these cuts have impacted upon young people’s services in one East London (2012 Olympic Host) Borough. The case study includes empirical data gleaned from a five-year ethnographic study of two East London neighbourhoods.

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Social Legacies of Olympic and Paralympic Games in East Londonng the hosting of such sports mega-events. The need for long-term job opportunities rather than temporary short-term jobs and the inclusion of the local culture in the preparations for the event itself and the legacy programmes following on from the event can help overcome feelings of marginalisation felt by the local community.