Edifice Complex: Public Stadium Funding and Urban Redevelopment in Baltimore, Maryland

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dc.contributor.advisorFreund, David Men_US
dc.contributor.authorBucacink, Ian Charlesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T06:25:36Z
dc.date.available2018-07-17T06:25:36Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the 1980s, Marylanders engaged in a public debate over the need to replace Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium. New stadium proponents, led by an elite coalition of politicians, businesspeople, and the newspapers, argued that Baltimore needed professional sports teams economically, as well as for the positive image they bestowed upon the city. Only a new publically-funded stadium would prevent the baseball Orioles from following the football Colts out of town, these supporters contented. A large segment of the public questioned the need to replace Memorial Stadium and suggested alternative social priorities for state funding, but the state legislature decided to fund the new stadium complex at Camden Yards anyway, despite intense popular opposition. For Baltimore’s elites, the issue was about more than sports. The new stadiums were a defense and continuation of the city’s neoliberal policies of urban redevelopment, along with all that those policies entailed, both good and bad.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2BG2HD79
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/21033
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledUrban planningen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic policyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBaltimoreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMarylanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledneoliberalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledredevelopmenten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrenaissanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsportsen_US
dc.titleEdifice Complex: Public Stadium Funding and Urban Redevelopment in Baltimore, Marylanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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