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The Identity and Spectacle of Sport as a Modern Piazza

Grause, Mackenzie M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522337031765992

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2018, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Sports have always been and always will be a significant part of our every day lives. This thesis contends that in order to continue to serve the community and cities in which the stadia are located, they must be designed as a modern day piazza. Historically, the Mesoamerican civilizations as well as the Ancient Greeks and Romans, treated their athletic facilities and buildings with such significance that they placed these facilities in the city center. This thesis argues that today these sporting facilities also serve the community the same way the Italian piazza serves communities. Major stadium facilities such as Detroit’s new professional hockey and basketball arena, the proposal for AC Milan’s soccer stadium, and the London Olympic stadium, all represent a sporting venue that effectively engages the community. They also serve as a polyfunctional spaces that can be used by many different clients at varying times. In doing so, these stadia have the ability to transform and completely rejuvenate areas of cities. This thesis contends that past, present, and future stadia are all examples of a piazza through their symbolic nature, social function, focal point of the community, and center of daily life. Much like the Stadium of Domitian at its inception was a sporting facility, but over time, there was a natural progression towards the piazza, it exemplifies the close connection between a stadium and a piazza and makes the case that the stadium is a modern day piazza that transforms the core urban fabric of a place into a space. By developing the FC Cincinnati Stadium in the dilapidated west end of Newport, Kentucky, the stadium centered design exemplifies the necessity of the correlation between the piazza and the stadium.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
27 p.
Architecture
architecture; urban planning; piazza; newport kentucky; sports

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  • Grause, M. M. (2018). The Identity and Spectacle of Sport as a Modern Piazza [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522337031765992

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Grause, Mackenzie. The Identity and Spectacle of Sport as a Modern Piazza. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522337031765992.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Grause, Mackenzie. "The Identity and Spectacle of Sport as a Modern Piazza." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522337031765992

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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