Post-Olympic sustainable development in society, architecture and urban-A discourse on London, Tokyo and Beijing Olympic Events

During more than 100-year Olympic history, many Olympic concepts have been endued new definitions in order to satisfy the updating demands raised from social reformation and development at global level. In 20th century, Olympic games were considered not only as a great opportunity for spreading great Olympic spirits, sharing ideas and ideologies, but also as a showcase of national comprehensive power. As a consequence, hosting an Olympic has been treated as great honor. However, in recent two decades of 21st century, Olympic seems to become a "hot potato", for some reasons, the interest of hosting Olympic Games has been decreased. Facing with this phenomenon, the International Olympic Committee(IOC) has to take actions to guarantee the Olympic continuity without lowering host requirements. At present, from IOC's point of view, one of the crucial points for solving crisis is to form sustainability guide and model for Olympic movement. This thesis is going to discuss about present Olympic sustainability developing condition with a specific focus on post-Olympic time sustainability from the perspective of society, architecture and urban. By making research throughout Olympic history, Olympic events, Olympic publications and case study about London, Tokyo and Beijing Olympics, in the end, attempt to provide more sustainable suggestions for the future Olympic Games and extract the sustainable Olympic model for post-game time from the case studies as reference for the future host cities.