A Contemporary Archaeology of Londons Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012 Gardner Jonathan
The contemporary archaeology of urban mega-events.This book explores the traces of London's most significant modern "mega events" the Great Exhibition of 1851, the 1951 Festival of Britain's South…
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The contemporary archaeology of urban mega-events.This book explores the traces of London's most significant modern "mega events" the Great Exhibition of 1851, the 1951 Festival of Britain's South Bank Exhibition, and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe, and their organizers self-consciously seek to leave a "legacy" that will endure for decades or more. The book argues that these spectacles must thus be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply transient or short-term phenomena. It explores the long-term history of each event through contemporary archaeology, examining the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition's