Public dollars, private stadiums : the battle over building sports stadiums
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Public dollars, private stadiums : the battle over building sports stadiums
Rutgers University Press, c2003
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780813533421
Description
An account of recent battles over publicly financed stadiums in some of America's largest cities. Interviews with the key decision makers present a behind-the-scenes look at how and why powerful individuals and organisations foist these sports palaces on increasingly unreceptive communities.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813533438
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The authors provide an eye-opening account of recent battles over publicly financed stadiums in some of America's largest cities. Their interviews with the key decision makers present a behind-the-scenes look at how and why powerful individuals and organizations foist these sports palaces on increasingly unreceptive communities.
Delaney and Eckstein show that in the face of studies demonstrating that new sports facilities don't live up to their promise of big money, proponents are using a new tactic to win public subsidies3/4intangible "social" rewards, such as prestige and community cohesion. The authors find these to be empty promises as well, demonstrating that new stadiums may exacerbate, rather than erase, social problems in cities.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Local Growth Coalitions and Publicly Funded Stadiums
2. Strategies for Building Private Stadiums with Public Dollars
3. Cincinnati: Queen City of Local Growth Coalitions
4. Cleveland: The Comeback Growth Coalition
5. Minneapolis and Hartford: Declining Local Growth Coalitions
6. Denver, Phoenix, and San Diego: Nascent Growth Coalitions on the Frontier
7. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia: Strong versus Weak Local Growth Coalitions
8. Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and Democracy
Appendix: Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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