Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Ehrlich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Football Game ◽  
Urban Status ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Sports Franchises

The introduction discusses how Kansas City and Oakland sought to elevate themselves through big-league sports franchises and urban renewal. It relates the story of a controversial 1970 Oakland-Kansas City football game to illustrate what was at stake in the sports rivalry between the two cities. The introduction suggests that within cities and professional sports, there are always resentments, grievances, and competing agendas at play, and there are always winners and losers off the field as well as on. That is particularly true during historically fraught times when sports is seen as a key indicator of urban status and when many people reject a vision of “big-league” success that they feel disadvantages and disempowers them.

Kansas City vs. Oakland

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Ehrlich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Professional Athletes ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
Sports Teams ◽  
Minor League ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Major League

The book discusses a sports rivalry between two cities--Kansas City, Missouri and Oakland, California--during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history, the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s. Kansas City and Oakland sought major league teams to show the rest of the world that they were no longer minor league in stature. Their efforts to attract big-league franchises pitted the two cities against each other. After they succeeded in landing those franchises, the cities’ football and baseball teams regularly fought each other--sometimes literally--on the field. By 1977 Kansas City and Oakland would be much changed from what they had been only a decade previously. Their sports teams had brought them widespread attention and athletic glory, just as they had craved. They also had done much to try to improve themselves by building not only new sports facilities but also new cultural, retail, and transportation centers. But those triumphs came at a cost amid wrenching clashes over race and labor relations, pitched battles over urban renewal, and heated controversies over the lot of professional athletes. The book tells parallel stories: that of the clashes between the cities’ sports teams, and that of the struggles of the cities themselves to show that they had become “big league” through sports and other major civic initiatives.

A’s vs. Royals, Part II

2019 ◽  
pp. 118-138
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Ehrlich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
World Series ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Central Business Districts ◽  
Farm System

This chapter discusses the baseball rivalry that developed between the Oakland A’s and the Kansas City Royals. The A’s won two more world championships but still fought with owner Charles Finley, who drew condemnation for his actions during the 1973 World Series. The Royals had developed a talented core through trades and their farm system but could not beat the A’s when it counted the most, and the team experienced turmoil of its own. Kansas City’s and Oakland’s decisions to build new sports facilities outside their central business districts contributed to the decline of the two cities’ downtowns, which the cities tried to counter through an array of urban renewal projects that in turn provoked controversy.

Urban governance and social sustainability

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kin Sun Chan ◽  
Yeung Fai Philip Siu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Leadership ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
People First

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of urban renewal policy by comparing urban renewal in Hong Kong with that undertaken in Macao. Design/methodology/approach – This study reviews the concepts of urban renewal in the two cities and examines related policies in Hong Kong and Macao. Findings – The study finds that the emphasis of urban renewal policy rests on the principles of self-financing, holistic planning and public-private partnerships. In order to deal with urban renewal issues, the Chinese Government has adopted a “People First, District-based, Public Participatory” approach based on public engagement and, to this end, it has introduced various measures, such as the District Urban Renewal Forum and the Urban Renewal Trust Fund. However, compared with Hong Kong, Macao’s efforts at urban renewal policies have been disjointed and piecemeal. Originality/value – The study adopts the principle of public management and compares the two cities’ urban policies to highlight the importance of both government leadership and public engagement for successful urban renewal.

Coordinating Public Works and Urban Renewal in Kansas City, Kan.

1959 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Eldridge H. Lovelace ◽  
Ramon Duran
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Public Works

A’s vs. Royals, Part I

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-92
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Ehrlich
Keyword(s):  
Kansas City ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Baseball Players ◽  
World Series ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Major League ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
Port Of Oakland ◽  
Model Expansion

This chapter relates the rise in the fortunes of baseball’s Oakland A’s, culminating in their 1972 World Series title. They won despite weak attendance and turmoil under owner Charles Finley. The Kansas City Royals established themselves as a model expansion franchise under owner Ewing Kauffman but still had far to go to match the A’s’ success. Labor unrest engulfed both baseball and the two cities during this period, with baseball players walking off the job not long after lengthy construction strikes in Kansas City and a dockworkers strike against the Port of Oakland. Even as the growing power of the Major League Baseball Players Association transformed baseball, organized labor elsewhere faced an increasingly harsh climate.

Valuing the Consumption Benefits from Professional Sports Franchises

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Alexander ◽  
William Kern ◽  
Jon Neill
Keyword(s):  
Professional Sports ◽  
Consumption Benefits ◽  
Sports Franchises
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