Shinjuku, Tokyo: host of the 2020 Olympics
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When the Games can’t go on
The stories behind the Olympic Games and other cultural mega-events are important, says Beatriz Garcia. Now is the time to look beyond their role as catalysts for real estate growth and commercial profit and rethink why we need them.
‘The Games must go on’ was the famed line by Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1952 to 1972, and this has indeed been the stance taken by the IOC ...
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