Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress

To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics...
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Author: Shaun Scott
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Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress by Scott, Shaun

Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress

¥6,740

Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress

¥6,740
Author: Shaun Scott
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial justice, workers' rights, equality for women and LGBTQ+ city dwellers, and environmental conservation. In Seattle, sports initiatives have powered meaningful reforms, such as popular stadium projects that promoted investments in public housing and mass transit. At the same time, conservative forces also used sports to consolidate their power and mobilize against the civic good. In Heartbreak City Shaun Scott takes the reader through 170 years of Seattle history, chronicling both well-known and long-forgotten events, like the establishment of racially segregated golf courses and neighborhoods in the regressive 1920s and the 1987 Seahawks players' strike that galvanized organized labor. At every step of the journey, he uncovers how sports have both united Seattle in pursuit of triumph and revealed its most profound political divides. Deep archival research and analysis combine in this people's history of a great American city's quest to become even greater--if only it could get out of its own way.



Author: Shaun Scott
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780295751993

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