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ADDITIONAL READING

Here's a list of the books, articles, and websites that have informed the arguments behind this project and our research more generally. 

  • Bailey, Christopher, Steven Miles, and Peter Stark. “Culture-led Urban Regeneration and the Revitalization of Identities in Newcastle, Gateshead and the North East of England.” International Journal of Cultural Policy 10, no. 1 (2004): 47-65.

  • Barrone, Emily. "The Astronomical Cost of Kids' Sport." Time.com, August 24, 2017. http://time.com/4913284/kids-sports-cost/.

  • Beaver, William. "Building Sports Stadiums in Pittsburgh: A Case Study in Urban Power Structures." Sociological Focus 31, no. 1 (2001): 21-32.

  • Cahn, Susan. "Sports Talk: Oral History and Its Uses, Problems, and Possibilities for Sport History." The Journal of American History 81, no. 2 (1994): 594-609.

  • Hardy, Stephan. "Sport in Urbanizing America: A Historical Review." Journal of Urban History 23, no. 6 (1997): 675-708.

  • Hughson, John. “Sporting in the ‘City of Culture.’” International Journal of Cultural Policy 10, no. 3 (2004); 319-330.

  • Hyman, Mark. The Most Expensive Game in Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012.

  • Kiuchi, Yuya, ed. Soccer Culture in America: Essays on the World’s Sport in Red, White and Blue. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., 2014.

  • Miles, Steve. “Newcastle Gateshead Quayside: Cultural investment and identities of resistance.” Capital & Class 23, no. 4 (2004): 183-189.

  • Miles, Steven. “‘Our Tyne’: Iconic Regeneration and the Revitalization of Identity in Newcastle-Gateshead.” Urban Studies 42, nos. 5-6 (2005): 913-926.

  • Neumann, Tracy. Remaking the Rustbelt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 

  • Roberts, Randy, ed. Pittsburgh Sports: Stories from the Steel City. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

  • Ruck, Rob, Maggie Jones Patterson, and Michael P. Weber. Rooney: A Sporting Life. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

  • Shaw, Keith and Fred Robinson. "Centenary Paper: UK Urban Regeneration Policies in the Early Twenty-First Century: Continuity or Change?" Town Planning Review 81, no. 2 (2010): 123-149.

  • Scherer, Jay. "Globalization and the Construction of Local Particularities: A Case Study of the Winnipeg Jets." Sociology of Sport Journal 18, No. 2 (2001): 205-230.

  • Short, J.R., L.M. Benton, W.B. Luce and J. Walton. “Reconstructing the Image of an Industrial City.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 83, no. 2 (June 1993): 207-224.

  • Trumpbour, Robert. "Sport and the Urban Landscape." Journal of Urban History 33, no. 5 (2007): 848-856.

  • West, Phil. The United States of Soccer. New York: Overlook Press, 2016.

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