The Development Of Professional Sports Stadiums In American Metropolitan Areas Since 1960s And Its Influence

This article is based on the perspective of history,combined with sports economics and regional economics.The article reviews the track of development of professional sports stadiums in America from 20th century,whose contribution to development to cities since 1960s is emphasized by this article.The article has studied social life in different historical phases in America.The process of development of professional sports stadiums in America has reflected the process of development of relationships between America and its social as well as local government and sports industry.The scale of professional sports stadiums and its traits has changed as there are some differences of policies in different historical background.No matter how it changes,the use of capital from taxpayer has always played an important role during the development of professional sports stadiums in America.The article has been separated into three parts as introduction,main body and conclusion.And main body is composed by three chapters.The introduction introduces abroad and domestic research progress,and explains reasons to select this topic and some special concepts.First part of main body introduces the track of the development of professional sports stadiums in American metropolitan area in historical review,emphasizing the change of sum and scale of professional sports stadiums as well as how government financial capital worked.The second part of main body has discussed thecharacteristics and trends of the development of professional sports stadiums in American metropolitan area.The article mainly takes new changes of design construct,revenue construct,financing way and spatial distribution into consideration.The third part of main body analyses the influence of the development of professional sports stadiums in the metropolitan area on the cities and the problems that appeared during the development process.Through the research on both tangible economic impact and intangible non-economic impact brought by development of professional sports stadiums,it's obvious that the construction and management of professional sports stadiums has not making a significant economic impact to the cities,but it brings a huge non-economic impact.And the last part reviews the article to come to a conclusion and combines the situation of the development of professional sports stadiums in China to propose some advice,which shows the construction of professional sports stadiums still takes long way to go.