Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares : : Speed Merchants, Spectacle, and the Struggle over Public Space in The World Class City /

Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares : : Speed Merchants, Spectacle, and the Struggle over Public Space in The World Class City / / Mark Douglas Lowes.

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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. Ar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lowes, Mark Douglas,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2002
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (140 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Appendix: A Note on Method
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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