Stadium City

Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States

By: Helen Morgan Parmett

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Paperback | 23 September 2025

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Understanding the recent history and multifaceted impact of sports stadiums A new sports stadium has an outsized impact on a city's landscape and image of itself. Each stadium also plays a central role in media institutions, technologies, and culture as a catalyst for urban change and flashy neighborhood anchor, cornerstone of regional identity and purveyor of multimedia experiences. Helen Morgan Parmett analyzes sports stadiums in Atlanta, Seattle, and Minneapolis to demonstrate the role that media institutions, technologies, and culture play in sports and examine their impact on the urban landscape. These interconnected factors impact struggles over city space, identity, and urban governing. As Morgan Parmett shows, stadiums exist as more than just buildings and sporting places. They are central nodes in the city that connect, disconnect, and distribute resources, people, information, and, ultimately, power. Morgan Parmett demonstrates how the "sportification" of place is influenced by the specific histories, geography, and sporting cultures of a city while explaining their relationship to broader forces at work in media, sport, and urbanism. Original and incisive, Stadium City offers a beyond-the-playing-field analysis of sports stadiums and their impact on our cities and our lives.

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"This engaging book details, via three evocative, meticulously researched US case studies, sport's role in fostering both pro-social connection and paranoid alienation among urban and media communities." -David Rowe, author of Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity and Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and Futures

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