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Lowes Mark Douglas <1969-> |
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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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Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares |
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Automobile racing - British Columbia - Vancouver |
City planning - British Columbia - Vancouver - Citizen participation |
Public spaces - British Columbia - Vancouver |
Sports and tourism - British Columbia - Vancouver |
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Electronic books. |
Hastings Park (Vancouver, B.C.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""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""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""; ""Z"" |
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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. 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. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910828335803321 |
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Convergence : facilitating transdisciplinary integration of life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and beyond / / Committee on Key Challenge Areas for Convergence and Health, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies |
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Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-309-30164-5 |
0-309-30162-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 p.) |
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Interdisciplinary research - United States |
Interdisciplinary research - Methodology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Boxes, Figures, and Tables""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Convergence in Action""; ""3 Convergence Is Informed by Research |
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Areas with Broad Scope""; ""4 Fostering Convergence in Organizations: Challenges and Strategies""; ""5 Advancing Knowledge and Solving Complex Problems Through Convergence: Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies""; ""Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants"" |
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"Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key strategy to tackle complex challenges and achieve new and innovative solutions. However, institutions face a lack of guidance on how to establish effective programs, what challenges they are likely to encounter, and what strategies other organizations have used to address the issues that arise. This advice is needed to harness the excitement generated by the concept of convergence and channel it into the policies, structures, and networks that will enable it to realize its goals. Convergence investigates examples of organizations that have established mechanisms to support convergent research. This report discusses details of current programs, how organizations have chosen to measure success, and what has worked and not worked in varied settings. The report summarizes the lessons learned and provides organizations with strategies to tackle practical needs and implementation challenges in areas such as infrastructure, student education and training, faculty advancement, and inter-institutional partnerships."--Publisher's description |
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