Unevenness in Urban Governance: Stadium Building and Downtown Redevelopment in Phoenix, Arizona

Timothy W Collins
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Timothy W Collins: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, TX 79968, USA

Environment and Planning C, 2008, vol. 26, issue 6, 1177-1196

Abstract: I examine sociospatial aspects of urban governance, focusing on the case of a downtown-redevelopment stadium project. In many US central cities, wider political economic processes have led to the formation of governance coalitions guided by the interests of private sector agents. The case of Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona, demonstrates how political economic conditions were sources of an uneven bargaining context during the process of project negotiations. Because of this unevenness, interests of profiteers were favored at the expense of others. Organized resistance during each phase of stadium building and concentration of increasing revenues in the hands of fewer business operators reflect uneven consequences. These were desired outcomes of the corporate-led coalition's strategy for expansion through the manipulation of state authority and the exclusionary production of space. I expand the application of urban-regime analysis to examine the role of unevenness in local governance.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1068/c0829g

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