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

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2002

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Description 1 online resource 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 Summary Lowes examines 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 Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016) Subject Automobile racing -- British Columbia -- Vancouver. Community organization -- Citizen participation -- Case studies. Sports and tourism -- British Columbia -- Vancouver. Urban economics -- Case studies. Genre/Form Dictionaries. Case studies. Form Electronic book ISBN 1442670223 9781442670228

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