Power Play: Professional Hockey and the Politics of Urban Development

by Jay Scherer, David Mills, Linda Sloan McCulloch

Book Overview

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772124931
• ISBN13: 9781772124934
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.