CITIES STRUGGLE WITH SPORTS VILLAGES

摘要

Even in today's corporatized-sports era of millionaire players, billionaire owners and billion-dollar stadiums, sports is deeply embedded in a city's identity. Planners and city boosters inevitably want to harness that emotional connection as an engine of urban development. They have found it is not all that easy to do. In Cincinnati, a kind of urban glue has begun to develop in the 18 acres of parking lots that divide the city's two venues-the $455-million Paul Brown Stadium for the Bengals and the $337-million Great American Ballpark for the Cincinnati Reds.