SOCI 142gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Galen Center, Staples Center, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
SOCI 142 Week 10 (Tuesday)
Readings for this week
● Third reading: 1-18
Why do cities spend money on sports stadiums? And is it economically beneficial?
● Cities: sites of entertainment, culture, and tourism
o Convention centers
o Sports arenas and stadiums
▪ Strategies to rebuild a downtown area to make a city nicer by adding a
stadium
● Los Angeles:
o Figueroa Corridor 1990s
● Contested Terrain: Figueroa Corridor
o Staples Center to USC: Sports and Entertainment District
▪ 200,000 working class people
▪ most are poor median income is less than half of the city
● 86% are renters
▪ Most likely hat’s goig to happe is risig housig osts ad
displacement
● Fored to look for e housig, it’s hard to fid have to settle
for housig that’s usafe for health ad safety
o Being further away from their job, changing schools and
the effect that has on their education
o If you’re spedig ore o housig, you’re spedig less
on food and education
● Convention Center 1971, expansion 1993
o When it expanded, there were 410 residential units that were demolished to
make room
o 1500 people lived there Latino, low-income
▪ 580 were students K-12
▪ mainly family units that were displaced
● Museums in Exposition Park 1990s
● Walt Disney Concert Hall 2003
● L.A. Live 2007-2010
● Galen Center
o Called the Galen Center because Lewis Galen donated $15 million to USC
● Why do cities spend money to support professional sports?
o Siegfried and Zimbalist – Sports Facilities
▪ Local governments: subsidies?
● Stadium
● Symbol
▪ Sports – American culture
o If you have a professional city, it will expose the city
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Document Summary
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