Abstract
The term "stadium" has come to include a wide variety of structures, which are used indifferently for a still wider variety of sports. It was originally a race course, and nothing else, and was of a very definite shape. Now it is used collectively to include bowls, amphitheatres, hippodromes and arenas, and may be of any shape that the character of its use may dictate. In the current vernacular, a stadium signifies any type of open air structure designed to exhibit any form of popular sport to large throngs of people. In spite of profound differences between the civilization of classic antiquity and our own, there are nevertheless, certain remarkable analogies. A centralized government controlling a very large area was common to both countries. Rome was also a ''melting pot't of various nations and tongues and of many races owing allegiance to a common ruler. Its laws, language, philosophy, literature and drama afforded the foundations on which ours are built. It was the first nation to practice organized "Sport" on a large scale and wherever the Romans established a colony, the provisions made for their "sporting events" surpassed in scale and magnificence their buildings for government or religion.
Committee Chair
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Committee Members
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Degree
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Author's Department
Graduate School of Architecture
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Date of Award
6-1-1931
Language
English (en)
Recommended Citation
Hellmuth, George Francis, "The stadium" (1931). Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Theses & Dissertations. 52.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_arch_etds/52
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