Moore, SM;
Raco, M;
Clifford, B;
(2018)
The 2012 Olympic Learning Legacy Agenda – the intentionalities of mobility for a new London model.
Urban Geography
, 39
(2)
pp. 214-235.
10.1080/02723638.2017.1300754.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the emergence of a Learning Legacy Agenda (LLA) in the wake of the London 2012 Olympic Games as a governmental tool for the dissemination of urban development and infrastructure project delivery best practice. Focusing on the inception, coordination and implementation of the LLA we outline the intentionalities of mobility that underpin its formation and appropriation and suggest how this points to the emergence of a new ‘London model’ of development and governance. Three intentionalities of knowledge capture, public duty, and extra-local salience are unpacked to demonstrate the range of ways in which the bureaucratically-initiated LLA banner has been used by various development actors and organisations to validate their existing practices. The case study of the LLA as an institutionalised governance apparatus is used to analyse the impact of specific forms of social relations on the ways in which ‘models’ are produced, what their content consists of, how dominant agendas and narratives co-evolve with the priorities of an assemblage of actors, and the processes of selective abstraction used to curate particular messages and forms of fixed and potentially mobile knowledge, yet dubious claims of ‘learning’.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The 2012 Olympic Learning Legacy Agenda – the intentionalities of mobility for a new London model |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02723638.2017.1300754 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1300754 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | London, Olympic Games, Knowledge, Governance, Models, Mobility |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1523476 |
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