{"id":768,"date":"2012-08-17T12:55:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=768"},"modified":"2012-08-17T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:07:18","slug":"online-media-comments-olympics-london-impact-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"ONLINE, MEDIA Comments on the Olympics in London and their impact on communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Magazine&#8217;s &#8216;Guide to the Olympics,&#8217; a 30-minute documentary (in four parts, starting here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/rule-britannia\/the-vice-guide-to-the-olympics-part-1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vice.com\/rule-britannia\/the-vice-guide-to-the-olympics-part-1<\/a> ), offers, among other more sensationalist bits, interviews with residents of Carpenter&#8217;s Estate in the Borough of Newham, living on the &#8216;doorstep&#8217; of the Games. The documentary also features author Iain Sinclair ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iainsinclair.org.uk\/tag\/2012-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.iainsinclair.org.uk\/tag\/2012-olympics\/<\/a> ), who argues that the Olympics represent &#8216;degeneration rather than regeneration&#8217; for communities in East London [see also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/07\/25\/156866851\/sinclair-rejects-olympic-excess-in-ghost-milk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/07\/25\/156866851\/sinclair-rejects-olympic-excess-in-ghost-milk<\/a> ]. <\/p>\n<p>Laura Falender<br \/>\nH-Urban List Editor<br \/>\nPhD fellow in History<br \/>\nUniversity of Oslo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Magazine&#8217;s &#8216;Guide to the Olympics,&#8217; a 30-minute documentary (in four parts, starting here: http:\/\/www.vice.com\/rule-britannia\/the-vice-guide-to-the-olympics-part-1 ), offers, among other more sensationalist bits, interviews with residents of Carpenter&#8217;s Estate in the Borough of Newham, living on the &#8216;doorstep&#8217; of the Games. The documentary also features author Iain Sinclair ( http:\/\/www.iainsinclair.org.uk\/tag\/2012-olympics\/ ), who argues that the Olympics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ONLINE, MEDIA Comments on the Olympics in London and their impact on communities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,218],"tags":[373,375,50,374,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}