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The Convention Follies, Part 4: An Interview with Heywood Sanders
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"[published in ARTVOICE v11n12, March 23, 2000]
The Convention Follies, Part 4: An Interview with Heywood
Sanders
by Hank Bromley
[This is the fourth in a series of articles about the convention center controversy.
Previous articles in the series are available at http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/fas/bromley/CCS/ .]
Heywood Sanders is Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Political Science at Trinity
University in San Antonio, Texas. His area of expertise is urban policy, and for nearly two decades
now his work has concentrated on the issues surrounding construction of new convention centers.
Prof. Sanders will be speaking in Buffalo on Tuesday, March 28 (see adjoining advertisement). We
had a chance to speak by telephone earlier this week.
How did you end up specializing in the politics and economics of
convention centers?
In the early 80’s I had a grant from the 20th Century
Fund—since renamed the Century Foundation—to research the politics of urban
infrastructure. There was a lot of concern over the deteriorating condition of bridges, sewers, and the
like, in many cities. My study’s purpose was to determine where deterioration happened and
why. It was thought that urban infrastructures were crumbling because cities had no money for
repairs, or because no one cared enough about these public resources. But I found that the same cities
with the worst unaddressed infrastructure problems were spending money on other public projects.
There was money for some things but not others. What got funded depended on what worked
politically. Big, central-city projects with powerful backers—specifically stadiums, arenas, and
convention centers—were happening despite limited fiscal resources, and infrastructure repair
was not.
I continued to work on the question of what got built and what did not, and
by 1991, when I wrote a paper called "Building the Convention City" for the Urban
Affairs Associa"
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