Stadium Worlds
Stadium Worlds

Author: Sybille Frank

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-02

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1136949232

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Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium. Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local identities, emotions, gender, and the sociology of space. Texts and case-studies build up this useful book for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.

The World's Most Amazing Stadiums
The World's Most Amazing Stadiums

Author: Michael Hurley

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1410942457

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Looks at ten of the most distinctive stadiums in the world, from the ancient Colosseum in Rome to the most massive and technologically advanced new stadiums from around the world.

Modern Coliseum
Modern Coliseum

Author: Benjamin D. Lisle

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0812249224

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In Modern Coliseum, Benjamin D. Lisle tracks changes in stadium design and culture since World War II. Featuring over seventy-five images documenting the transformation of the American stadium over time, Modern Coliseum will be of interest to a variety of readers, from urban and architectural historians to sports fans.

Mega Structures: The Largest Stadiums
Mega Structures: The Largest Stadiums

Author: Susan K. Mitchell

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2008-09-18

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1427089310

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Mega structures takes a close look at some of the tallest, longest, and largest structures in the world. Each book lets the reader in on the challenges, dangers, and successes in building these colossal structures....

The Largest Stadiums
The Largest Stadiums

Author: Susan Mitchell

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2007-07-07

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0836883632

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Introduces huge buildings whose only purpose is to provide entertainment, including arenas, stadiums, and speedways.

Stupendous Sports Stadiums
Stupendous Sports Stadiums

Author: Michael Sandler

Publisher: Bearport Publishing

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1617723029

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Describes the most stupendous sports stadiums in the world and compares their various features.

The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States
The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States

Author: Mark Dyreson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1317989287

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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.

World Sports
World Sports

Author: Maylon Hanold

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-07-19

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13:

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This book covers a wide range of issues and controversies within the world of sports—including drug use, economics, ethics, ethnicity, gender, globalization, politics, race, sexuality, and technology—from both a U.S. and global perspective. World Sports: A Reference Handbook covers a wide variety of sports-related controversies, including ethical, political, technological, business, and social issues related to the phenomenon of sports. Many of the larger topics are covered from multiple angles, often providing both a global and American perspective. The work provides unique insights into the commonly addressed subject of sports, supplying information that most readers will find unfamiliar and thought-provoking. Addressing forms of sports as diverse as American football, skateboarding, NASCAR auto racing, ultrarunning, and the disciplines of the Olympic Games, the title's topics are discussed in depth to illuminate the sport's specific issues and are backed with information from relevant sports organizations, biographies of important people, chronologies, and charts and graphs. The information within this handbook is based upon the latest academic research but presented in very accessible language, making it appropriate for high school and undergraduate students as well as general readers.

The World's Game
The World's Game

Author: Bill Murray

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780252067181

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Known as much for the emotional outbursts and violence of its fans as for its own stars, soccer (or football, as it is known outside the United States) is a global game. Its international controlling body, FIFA, boasts more members than the United Nations. Bill Murray traces the growth of what during pre-industrial times was called "the simplest game" through its codification in the nineteenth century to the 1994 World Cup, held for the first time in the United States. Murray weaves the sport's growth into the culture and politics of the countries where it has been taken up, analyzing its reputation as a game that has seen more riots and on-field brawls than all other types of football combined. He vividly illustrates how soccer has become the world's most popular sport, one that has resisted the interference of politicians, dictators, and profiteers and - more recently - the demands of television, through which it has spread to virtually every corner of the globe. The World's Game will be entertaining and enlightening to anyone from the most avid, knowledgeable fan to those who merely hope to learn a little about the sport.