Power play : professional hockey and the politics of urban development /

"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 acco...

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Main Authors: Scherer, Jay, 1975- (Author), Mills, David, 1952- (Author), McCulloch, Linda Sloan, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2019.
Edition:First electronic edition, 2019.
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