Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2016 Olympic Bids, Professional Sports, and Urban Politics: Four Decades of Stadium Planning in Detroit, 1936-1975 Jeffrey R. Wing Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Wing, Jeffrey R., "Olympic Bids, Professional Sports, and Urban Politics: Four Decades of Stadium Planning in Detroit, 1936-1975" (2016). Dissertations. 2155. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2155 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2016 Jeffrey R. Wing LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO OLYMPIC BIDS, PROFESSIONAL SPORTS, AND URBAN POLITICS: FOUR DECADES OF STADIUM PLANNING IN DETROIT, 1936-1975 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN HISTORY BY JEFFREY R. WING CHICAGO, IL AUGUST 2016 Copyright by Jeffrey R. Wing, 2016 All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Writing this dissertation often seemed like a solitary exercise, but I couldn’t have accomplished it alone. I would like to thank Professor Elliott Gorn for his advice and support over the past few years. The final draft is much more focused than I envisioned when I began the process, and I have Prof. Gorn to thank for that.