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From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: party ends with a bang
Date: 2004.03.21 10:53
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/8242095.htm
[After all the fun of the engagement party last night, most of the guests headed straight down the Broad Street Cardo to witness the implosion of Veteran's Stadium.]
If you have a copy of the book Mutations handy, you can see a nice aerial shot of the now quondam Veteran's Stadium on pages 542-3. The caption reads:
In 1999 American cities saw at least 41 new and renovated sports facilities with another 34 such projects slated for the next 3 years.
Long argued by developers and sports executives as boons toward sustainable urban renewal, economics consistently show that stadiums actually slow the growth of cities and cost taxpayers billions of dollars per decade.
"New" stadiums are frequently declared obsolete and are torn down, in favor of yet newer ones, in as little as 7 years. The brutal, perpetual migration of sports teams to ever-newer facilities however can increase their own yearly income by as much as $40 million.
[so much for metabolic nature]
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