Sport in the city [electronic resource] : cultural connections / edited by Michael P. Sam and John E. Hughson.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2011Description: ix, 153 pContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780203471401 (e-book)
- City planning
- Sports -- Social aspects
- Urban renewal
- Architecture and Planning
- Urban & municipal planning
- Sports & active outdoor recreation
- Urban communities
- Regional studies
- Cultural studies: customs & traditions
- Sociology: sport & leisure
- Sport: general
- Sports management & facilities
- Hospitality & service industries
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- Also available in printed form ISBN 9780415466561
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Previously published as a special issue of Sport in society.
Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examining sport within context of urban regeneration, this book looks at the place of sport within planning agendas for 'cities of culture'. It also examines sport stadiums in city 're-imaging' in relation to matters such as public funding, environmental impact and urban infrastructure. Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called `high' and `popular' culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a key component within strategies for the cultural regeneration of cities and regions, a tendency with mixed outcomes - at times fostering genuinely democratic arrangements, at others pseudo-democratic arrangements, whereby political, business and cultural elites manipulate a sense of sameness and unity among their fellow citizens to smooth the path for the pursuit of what are actually vested interests. Almost any active enactment of a `sports city of culture' risks divisiveness. Recognizing controversies, with both potentially positive and negative outcomes, this book examines sport within contexts of urban and regional regeneration, via a number of rather different case studies. Within these studies, the role of sport stadium development, franchise expansion and sports-fan (and anti-sport) activism is addressed and articulated with issues concerning, inter alia, public funding, environmental impact, urban infrastructure and citizen identity. The `sport in the city' project commenced as a research symposium held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and number of the essays originate from this occasion. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9780415466561
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