ABSTRACT
Building upon scholars who have addressed the careful orchestration of city space as an arena for market-oriented growth and elite consumption practices, this chapter concerns ongoing processes involved in the constitution of physical culture relate to the symbolic reconstitution of cityscapes. Scholars have often addressed city spaces as polarized or segregated; divided cities that contain multiple narratives within the context of transformation in the predominant mode of social regulation. Indeed, sporting spectacle has become difficult to understand the relationships between physical culture and urban spaces without appreciation of the attendant discourses coalescing around the militarization of urban space, urban securitization and cleansing and the threat of terror. The 'legacies' and longerterm liberty-costs for urban spaces once the sport, leisure or event infrastructure is in place may well be a range of new punitive measures and potentially invasive laws which legitimize the use of force, new surveillance technologies, and precedents of joint army, municipal and private security action become 'normalized'.
