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Bulls markets : Chicago's basketball business and the new inequality / Sean Dinces.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical studies of urban AmericaPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resource (ix, 304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226583358
  • 022658335X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.323/640977311 23
LOC classification:
  • GV885.52.C45 D46 2018eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Bullish on image: basketball and the promotion of postindustrial Chicago -- "Normally, heroes cost you money": Bulls fans in the new Gilded Age -- The Bulls as "good business": the United Center and redeveloping Chicago's Near West Side -- Anchor or shipwreck? the United Center and economic development in West Haven -- "Peanut envy": the United Center's war against sidewalk vendors -- "Nothing but net profits": public dollars and tax policy at the United Center -- Conclusion.
Summary: The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners in constructing a sparkling new venue to house this incredible team that was identified worldwide with Chicago. That arena, the United Center, is the focus of Bulls Markets, an unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that forever reshaped one of America's largest cities--arguably for the worse. Sean Dinces shows how the construction of the United Center reveals the fundamental problems with neoliberal urban development. The pitch for building the arena was fueled by promises of private funding and equitable revitalization in a long blighted neighborhood. However, the effort was funded in large part by municipal tax breaks that few ordinary Chicagoans knew about, and that wound up exacerbating the rising problems of gentrification and wealth stratification. In this portrait of the construction of the United Center and the urban life that developed around it, Dinces starkly depicts a pattern of inequity that has become emblematic of contemporary American cities: governments and sports franchises collude to provide amenities for the wealthy at the expense of poorer citizens, diminishing their experiences as fan and--far worse--creating an urban environment that is regulated and surveilled for the comfort and protection of that same moneyed elite.
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Introduction -- Bullish on image: basketball and the promotion of postindustrial Chicago -- "Normally, heroes cost you money": Bulls fans in the new Gilded Age -- The Bulls as "good business": the United Center and redeveloping Chicago's Near West Side -- Anchor or shipwreck? the United Center and economic development in West Haven -- "Peanut envy": the United Center's war against sidewalk vendors -- "Nothing but net profits": public dollars and tax policy at the United Center -- Conclusion.

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The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners in constructing a sparkling new venue to house this incredible team that was identified worldwide with Chicago. That arena, the United Center, is the focus of Bulls Markets, an unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that forever reshaped one of America's largest cities--arguably for the worse. Sean Dinces shows how the construction of the United Center reveals the fundamental problems with neoliberal urban development. The pitch for building the arena was fueled by promises of private funding and equitable revitalization in a long blighted neighborhood. However, the effort was funded in large part by municipal tax breaks that few ordinary Chicagoans knew about, and that wound up exacerbating the rising problems of gentrification and wealth stratification. In this portrait of the construction of the United Center and the urban life that developed around it, Dinces starkly depicts a pattern of inequity that has become emblematic of contemporary American cities: governments and sports franchises collude to provide amenities for the wealthy at the expense of poorer citizens, diminishing their experiences as fan and--far worse--creating an urban environment that is regulated and surveilled for the comfort and protection of that same moneyed elite.

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