num_pages: 368
description: Comprehensive and thoughtful,  City Games  looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.
language: English
title: City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports
titlecomplete: City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (Sport and Society)
genres: Sports, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 19
series: Sport and Society
publisher: University of Illinois Press