Costas Spirou
Biographic Data
| ID | 182543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Costas Spirou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Costas |
| FAMILY NAME | Spirou |
| SIGNATURE | SPIROU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Louis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8873-795X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tourist City
Tourism has emerged as a major driver of urban economic development, as cities focus on employing existing cultural assets and developing new ones. All this is set in motion for the purpose of improving their urban identity and translating that reconstituted image into opportunities for growth. Significant investments in an associated, physical infrastructure in sport, entertainment, recreation, and tourism are now part of the cultural planning s…
Social forces and the evolution of tourism
This paper focuses on the conditions that gave rise to tourism as a tool of urban economic development. By the 1960s and 1970s, an emerging economy of recreation and tourism was gaining steam as many manufacturing city centers were undergoing significant fiscal stress and social deterioration due to suburbanization and deindustrialization. In an effort to reverse the tide, American cities began to embrace a new strategy, most visible in the last …
Urban festive policies and sociocultural impacts
This article focuses on the social implications of urban policy that draws from festive planning practices to redevelop cities. In the last few decades, municipal and business leaders have turned their attention to the renewal of their city core through the use of tourism. These urban festive policies, however, prove to have significant social and related distributional consequences by impacting community residents and by injecting varied urban i…
Urban Tourism and Urban Change
Political Leadership and Stadium Development in Chicago
Between 1988 and 1994, Chicago was the site of three major sports stadium projects — the construction of the new Comiskey Park (since renamed US Cellular Field) and the United Center, as well as the addition of stadium‐lighting to the venerable Wrigley Field. This article analyzes the implementation of these projects with the aim of critiquing and reorienting contemporary regime theory. The more particular amendments to typical regime analysis fo…
Revamped Stadium…New Neighborhood
In 1988, one of Major League Baseball’s oldest stadiums, Wrigley Field, was substantially modernized through the addition of field lighting. This modernization of Wrigley Field, in turn, has contributed to a complicated transformation of the adjoining Lake View neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side. This article examines the corporate maneuvering that led to the upgrading of Wrigley Field, as well as the roles played by local government and neighb…
Aińt No Makiń It
Cultural Relativism vs Activism
Urban festive policies and sociocultural impacts
This article focuses on the social implications of urban policy that draws from festive planning practices to redevelop cities. In the last few decades, municipal and business leaders have turned their attention to the renewal of their city core through the use of tourism. These urban festive policies, however, prove to have significant social and related distributional consequences by impacting community residents and by injecting varied urban i…
Political Leadership and Stadium Development in Chicago
Between 1988 and 1994, Chicago was the site of three major sports stadium projects — the construction of the new Comiskey Park (since renamed US Cellular Field) and the United Center, as well as the addition of stadium‐lighting to the venerable Wrigley Field. This article analyzes the implementation of these projects with the aim of critiquing and reorienting contemporary regime theory. The more particular amendments to typical regime analysis fo…
Cultural Relativism vs Activism
Aińt No Makiń It
Revamped Stadium…New Neighborhood
In 1988, one of Major League Baseball’s oldest stadiums, Wrigley Field, was substantially modernized through the addition of field lighting. This modernization of Wrigley Field, in turn, has contributed to a complicated transformation of the adjoining Lake View neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side. This article examines the corporate maneuvering that led to the upgrading of Wrigley Field, as well as the roles played by local government and neighb…
Political Leadership and Stadium Development in Chicago
Between 1988 and 1994, Chicago was the site of three major sports stadium projects — the construction of the new Comiskey Park (since renamed US Cellular Field) and the United Center, as well as the addition of stadium‐lighting to the venerable Wrigley Field. This article analyzes the implementation of these projects with the aim of critiquing and reorienting contemporary regime theory. The more particular amendments to typical regime analysis fo…
Urban Tourism and Urban Change
Urban festive policies and sociocultural impacts
This article focuses on the social implications of urban policy that draws from festive planning practices to redevelop cities. In the last few decades, municipal and business leaders have turned their attention to the renewal of their city core through the use of tourism. These urban festive policies, however, prove to have significant social and related distributional consequences by impacting community residents and by injecting varied urban i…
Social forces and the evolution of tourism
This paper focuses on the conditions that gave rise to tourism as a tool of urban economic development. By the 1960s and 1970s, an emerging economy of recreation and tourism was gaining steam as many manufacturing city centers were undergoing significant fiscal stress and social deterioration due to suburbanization and deindustrialization. In an effort to reverse the tide, American cities began to embrace a new strategy, most visible in the last …
Tourist City
Tourism has emerged as a major driver of urban economic development, as cities focus on employing existing cultural assets and developing new ones. All this is set in motion for the purpose of improving their urban identity and translating that reconstituted image into opportunities for growth. Significant investments in an associated, physical infrastructure in sport, entertainment, recreation, and tourism are now part of the cultural planning s…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Tourism geography (3 works) · Urban tourism (3 works)