Previous Getting Started columns have looked at London’s Olympic bid, and progress on the site (see Further reading). This is the sixth of a series of annual updates that have reviewed progress to 2012.
As 2012 approaches, the final touches are being put to the Olympic Park in east London, London’s newest public park in over a century. The aim of creating the new Olympic Park was to transform a neglected former industrial area the size of London’s Hyde Park into a sustainable place in which people could live, work and play long after the 2012 games. In 2005, when London won the bid for 2012, it took a leap of faith to imagine the transformation that could take place in this run-down part of east London. Now it takes a leap of equal proportions to imagine how the area used to look.
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