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Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares Speed Merchants Spectacle and the Struggle over Public Space in the World Class City 1st Edition by Mark Douglas Lowes ISBN 1442670223 9781442670228

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Author(s): Mark Douglas Lowes
ISBN(s): 9781442670228, 1442670223
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.57 MB
Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1442670223

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Author: Mark Douglas Lowes 

What role do sporting spectacles play in the making of a ‘world-class’ city?Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares reports on the conflict that arose between a Vancouver community and the civic boosters who wanted to move the Molson Indy Vancouver motorsport event to their neighbourhood park. Arguing that such events are simply a matter of economic and cultural ‘common sense’, the civic boosters promoted the Indy spectacle as a means of gaining ‘world-class’ status for the city.

Against this background, Lowes explores the complex relations among major league sport, urban landscape, and civic identity. He argues that the capacity to articulate a city’s ‘vision’ for itself is an important manifestation of power and ideology, and a notable point of struggle in contemporary urban life. This encompasses much larger issues related to the struggle over urban public space and the legitimacy of a particular narrative of urban growth and civic identity – one that increasingly privileges the consumer over the citizen. Provocative and engaging, this study examines the impact of major sports events on urban centres, and shows how urban public culture is defined and shaped by competition for the right to conceptualize, control, and experience a city’s public spaces.

Table of contents:

  1. Spectacular Consumption Spaces

  2. Competing Visions

  3. Selling the Spectacle

  4. Resisting the Spectacle

  5. Spectacular Space and the Ideology of the ‘World-Class’ City

  6. Appendix: A Note on Method

  7. Notes

  8. References

  9. Index

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