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Sport in the City - Cultural Connections (Hardcover)
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Sport in the City - Cultural Connections (Hardcover)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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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.
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