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Making Baseball Great Again
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This chapter takes a broad view of mallpark development and offers thoughts about the future of baseball stadium design and usage. It recognizes that the same cultural trends underpinning the nostalgic appeal of retro stadium designs that are implicated within the political rise of Donald Trump. It also speculates what baseball stadiums could become if sports leagues and stadium design in the future are shaped by different, more inclusive principles related to Henri Lefebvre's “Right to the City.” The chapter discusses how the “Right to the Stadium” prioritize a person's commitment to the team over their ability to pay and reimagine the relationships between stadiums and their surrounding communities. It considers how the ballparks of early twentieth-century America are celebrated within mallparks as spaces that produced, reproduced, and celebrated inequities.
Title: Making Baseball Great Again
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This chapter takes a broad view of mallpark development and offers thoughts about the future of baseball stadium design and usage.
It recognizes that the same cultural trends underpinning the nostalgic appeal of retro stadium designs that are implicated within the political rise of Donald Trump.
It also speculates what baseball stadiums could become if sports leagues and stadium design in the future are shaped by different, more inclusive principles related to Henri Lefebvre's “Right to the City.
” The chapter discusses how the “Right to the Stadium” prioritize a person's commitment to the team over their ability to pay and reimagine the relationships between stadiums and their surrounding communities.
It considers how the ballparks of early twentieth-century America are celebrated within mallparks as spaces that produced, reproduced, and celebrated inequities.
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