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Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums

by Kevin J. Delaney , Rick Eckstein
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780813533438
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press
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  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: GBP 25.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 400 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / Urban

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.

KEVIN J. DELANEY is associate professor of sociology at Temple University and author of Strategic Bankruptcy.

RICK ECKSTEIN is associate professor of sociology and assistant director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University, as well as the author of Nuclear Power and Social Power.

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