Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares : Speed Merchants, Spectacle, and the Struggle over Public Space in the World Class City.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
Intro -- 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.
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.
9781442670228
Automobile racing-British Columbia-Vancouver. City planning-British Columbia-Vancouver-Citizen participation. Public spaces-British Columbia-Vancouver. Sports and tourism-British Columbia-Vancouver.