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. Ed(S): Sam, Michael P.; Hughson, John - Sport in the City - 9780415828208 - V9780415828208
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Sport in the City

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Description for Sport in the City Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Sam, Michael P.; Hughson, John. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 9. Weight in Grams: 300.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415828208
SKU
V9780415828208
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Ref
99-1

About . Ed(S): Sam, Michael P.; Hughson, John
Michael Sam is Senior Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management at the University of Otago, New Zealand. John Hughson is Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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