Sport, Space and the City Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: Sport, Football and the City	1
2	The Changing Shape of the Stadium	9
	Folk-game football	11
	The codification of football	15
	Football as a commodity: football enclosed	17
	The technologizing of the stadium	31
	Futurescape?	34
3	The Paradox of Modern Stadium Landscapes	40
	The landscape ensemble	42
	Floodlighting	44
	The plastic pitch	45
	The all-seater stadium	47
	Containment and danger	50
4	Football, the Stadium and a Sense of Place	55
	Football and collective identification	55
	Football and topophilia	64
	Economic benefits	77
	From topophilia to activism	86
5	When Saturday Comes: Football as Nuisance	94
	Football and landscapes of fear	95
	Panic in the streets?	101
	The nature of football nuisances	107
	Non-football nuisances of football grounds	123
	From topophobia to activism	126
	Examples of activism	128
6	Questions of Location and Relocation	134
	Locational change	136
	Present-day pressures for change	141
	The American experience	150
	Resistance to change	151
	Ground sharing and club mergers	164
	Economic impacts of new stadium developments	166
7	Interpretations and Prospects	170
	Interpreting the territorialization of football	172
	The last football landscapes?	176
	Concluding comments	188
	Notes	189
	Bibliography	194
	Index	207