Description:
| Aims: The aim of this unit is to address the transformation of cities into post-industrial mega-complexes predicated on play, sporting facilities and experiences, the attraction of mega-events, waterfront leisure spaces, shopping malls, and other leisure-oriented environments.
Learning Outcomes: In the completion of the unit, students will be able to:
* Theorize the urban transformation of city-space within a climate of neoliberal social reform
* Articulate the connections between the historical antecedents of urban sport culture with contemporary expressions of the relevance sport still holds within the social fabric of cities.
* Critically identify the cultural economy and politics of contemporary sporting space
* Identify how sport and leisure environments have become important cultural institutions and policy tools in the resurgence (or post-industrial renaissance) of cities.
Skills:
* Analysis of research and reflection (F/A)
* Independent work (F)
* Qualitative research skills
* Written communication (A)
* Integrated, cross-disciplinary understanding of sport and space (F/A).
Content: Students will study:
* The Urbanization of Britain: The city in historical perspective
* The city as post-industrial playground
* Place Wars: Tourism and the Re-invention of the city
* The Metropolis & Mega-Sporting Events
* Community Based Sport & Social Reform
* Policy, Development & Governance in the Polarized Polis
* The Night-time Economy: Sport, Space, Surveillance
* The Resonance of Rural Space
* A Case study of a chosen city-space.
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