A permanent site for the Summer Olympics

The Summer Olympics should be held in the same place. I have been making this point for some time. I was asked recently by the Washington Post to write an article on this topic. You can access it here. An Atlantic piece published in 2013 written by Nate Berg, makes the same point.

My writings on the Summer Olympics are in various books as well as in the following articles:

Megaevents and urban spectaculars

Who won the 2016 Olympic Games hosting competition:  Rio or Chicago

Cities and the Olympics Games

Cities are rare good news story in climate change

My article on cities as the rare good news story in the issue of climate change was just published. You can access it here.

Chicago City Hall

Living in the Age of Distraction

We live in an Age of Distraction. People are multitasking and loosing focus on the here and now. I address this issue in a recent piece in The Conversation. You can access it here.