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Explores the engineering challenges behind building stadiums, as well as the creative solutions found to overcome those challenges. Accessible text, vibrant photos, and an engineering activity for readers provide a well-rounded introduction to the engineering process.
Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘sportscapes’—landscapes literally shaped by their devotion to athletic competition. Curiously, given the importance of the secular cathedrals in American culture, historians have paid little attention to these edifices. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport seeks to remedy that oversight. This book will analyze stadiums from a variety of perspectives, paying special attention to the links between the ‘built environment’ in which Americans watch and play games and the larger social environments that the nation’s sporting practices inhabit. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport explores the role of stadiums in shaping urban identities, determining the economics of intercollegiate athletics, influencing local and national politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
01 Stadium Trends by Anna Martovitskaya. The Stadium as a Hub for Moder Society. 02 Architectural History by Martin Wimmer. Olympic Stadiums. Football Stadiums. Other Stadiums. 03 Design Patterns by Inka Humann. Location Strategy. Urban Context. Building Footprint. Spectator Accessibility. Grandstands and Tiers. Seating Balustrades. VIP Lounges and Boxes. Structure and Support Systems. Separation of Platform / Field. Lighting and Illumination. 04 Buildings and projects. Olympic and National Stadiums. 01 Olympistadium, Berlin (Germany). 02 Olympic Velodrome, Athens (Greece). 03 Olympic Stadium, Kiev (Ukraine). 04 National Stadium, Warsaw (Poland). 05 National Stadium, Beijing (China). 06 Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília (Brazil). Football Stadiums. 07 Arena Amazônia, Manaus (Brazil). 08 Estádio Governador Magalhaes Pinto, Belo Horizonte (Brazil). 09 Soccer City, Johannesburg (South Africa). 10 Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban (South Africa). 11 Pancho Arena, Felcsút (Hungary). 12 Waldstation, Frankfurt (Germany). 13 Rheistadion, Düsseldorf (Germany). 14 Allianz Arena, Munich (Germany). 15 Allianz Riviera, Nice (France). 16 Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain (United Arab Emirates). Other Stadiums. 17 VTB Ice Palace, Moscow (Russia). 18 Palace of Water Sports, Kazan (Russia). 19 National Aquatic Centre, Beijing (China). 20 Century Lotus Sports Park, Forshan (China). 21 Mecedes Benz Arena, Berlin (Germany). 22 Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne (Australia). 05 Drawing Archive. Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga (Portugal). Big Eye Stadium, Oita (Japan). Baltic Arena, Gdansk (Poland). Müngersdorfer Stadium, Cologne (Germany). Fritz-Walter-Stadium, Kaiserlautern (Germany). Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow (Russia). Index of architects and engineers. Index of places.
This title discusses how sports stadiums are built, including engineering, design and construction.
Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘sportscapes’—landscapes literally shaped by their devotion to athletic competition. Curiously, given the importance of the secular cathedrals in American culture, historians have paid little attention to these edifices. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport seeks to remedy that oversight. This book will analyze stadiums from a variety of perspectives, paying special attention to the links between the ‘built environment’ in which Americans watch and play games and the larger social environments that the nation’s sporting practices inhabit. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport explores the role of stadiums in shaping urban identities, determining the economics of intercollegiate athletics, influencing local and national politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
" America is in the midst of a sports building boom. Professional sports teams are demanding and receiving fancy new playing facilities that are heavily subsidized by government. In many cases, the rationale given for these subsidies is that attracting or retaining a professional sports franchise--even a minor league baseball team or a major league pre-season training facility--more than pays for itself in increased tax revenues, local economic development, and job creation. But are these claims true? To assess the case for subsidies, this book examines the economic impact of new stadiums and the presence of a sports franchise on the local economy. It first explores such general issues as the appropriate method for measuring economic benefits and costs, the source of the bargaining power of teams in obtaining subsidies from local government, the local politics of attracting and retaining teams, the relationship between sports and local employment, and the importance of stadium design in influencing the economic impact of a facility. The second part of the book contains case studies of major league sports facilities in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities, and of minor league stadiums and spring training facilities in baseball. The primary conclusions are: first, sports teams and facilities are not a source of local economic growth and employment; second, the magnitude of the net subsidy exceeds the financial benefit of a new stadium to a team; and, third, the most plausible reasons that cities are willing to subsidize sports teams are the intense popularity of sports among a substantial proportion of voters and businesses and the leverage that teams enjoy from the monopoly position of professional sports leagues. "
This well-illustrated book is the first to explore the stadium as the principal container of the modern urban crowd and a place where thousands of people gather to take part in what often appears to be modern 'religious' rituals. Is the stadium a prison, a garden or a theatre? Do new stadiums contribute economically to the places in which they are built? Drawing on examples from Europe, North America and China, this book ranges from historical studies of stadium growth to current reviews of stadium development, exposing the stadium as a major element of the modern urban scene.
This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering a series of review articles and global case studies, it illustrates what happens when sport organizations and other public and private stakeholders fail to factor environmental justice into their planning and operations processes. It opens with an historical account of environmental justice research and of research into sport and the natural environment. It then offers a series of case studies from around the world, including the United States, Canada, Kenya, South Africa, and Taiwan. These case studies are organized around key elements of environmental justice such as water and air pollution, displacement and gentrification, soil contamination, and transportation accessibility. They illustrate how major sports stadiums have contributed positively or negatively (or both) to the environmental health of the compact neighborhoods that surround them, to citizens’ quality of life, and in particular to communities that have historically been subjected to unjust and inequitable environmental policy. Placing the issue of environmental justice front and center leads to a more complete understanding of the relationship between stadiums, the natural environment, and urban communities. Presenting new research with important implications for practice, this book is vital reading for anybody working in sport management, venue management, mega-event planning, environmental studies, sociology, geography, and urban and regional planning. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.