Olympic Challenge: Designing Equity into Mega-Events by Velasquez-Soto, Sharon Jacqueline

“…Borrowing the language of hazard mitigation from environmental planning and a framework for operationalizing equity in planning, this thesis evaluates the potentiality of diverse procurement and contracting in mega-events as a tool to minimize known vulnerabilities, particularly for traditionally marginalized communities, of hosting mega-events like the Olympic Games. The thesis leverages a prime, though imperfect, example of a more inclusive procurement program of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to explore lessons learned about diverse procurement and contracting in that city. …”
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