Pete Fussey, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, Jon Coaffee, University of Birmingham UK, Gary Armstrong, Brunel University, UK and Dick Hobbs, University of Essex, UK

'Overall, it is an informative, stimulating and significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary study of sport mega-events, particularly in terms of their pre-event phases and of their previously under-researched security aspects. ... This is certainly a timely book and will be of value to scholars of Olympics, mega-events and urban regeneration... In all the chapters a notable feature of the book is the intensive research that underpins all the themes. ... Overall this is an intensively researched study which merits close attention... a thought-provoking and conceptually grounded account of how different urban agendas interact and sometimes collide in the staging of an Olympic festival.' Sociology

• Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

Pete Fussey, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, Jon Coaffee, University of Birmingham UK, Gary Armstrong, Brunel University, UK and Dick Hobbs, University of Essex, UK

'Overall, it is an informative, stimulating and significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary study of sport mega-events, particularly in terms of their pre-event phases and of their previously under-researched security aspects. ... This is certainly a timely book and will be of value to scholars of Olympics, mega-events and urban regeneration... In all the chapters a notable feature of the book is the intensive research that underpins all the themes. ... Overall this is an intensively researched study which merits close attention... a thought-provoking and conceptually grounded account of how different urban agendas interact and sometimes collide in the staging of an Olympic festival.' Sociology

• Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

Pete Fussey, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, Jon Coaffee, University of Birmingham UK, Gary Armstrong, Brunel University, UK and Dick Hobbs, University of Essex, UK

'Overall, it is an informative, stimulating and significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary study of sport mega-events, particularly in terms of their pre-event phases and of their previously under-researched security aspects. ... This is certainly a timely book and will be of value to scholars of Olympics, mega-events and urban regeneration... In all the chapters a notable feature of the book is the intensive research that underpins all the themes. ... Overall this is an intensively researched study which merits close attention... a thought-provoking and conceptually grounded account of how different urban agendas interact and sometimes collide in the staging of an Olympic festival.' Sociology

• Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City