Can new stadiums revitalise urban neighbourhoods?

significancemagazine.org, Significance Magazine by Dennis Coates, Brad Humphreys | Jul. 1, 2011 (Special Report)

New sports stadiums and arenas bring renewal and prosperity. So at least Londoners have been promised as construction for the 2012 Olympics transforms their neighbourhoods. Are there grounds for the promises?Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys look at the evidence from North America and find many unjustified claims. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 1, 2011

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urban revitalization projects primarily shift economic activity from one part of a city to another, and do not generate much new economic activity.

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