作為現代化城市的象徵，現代化球場空間如何建構它的城市認同？本文嘗試結合政治經濟學與文化研究之論述基礎，以美國球場空間形式的變遷過程，作為分析現代化球場神話如何經由公共修辭與私人投資，企圖自然化的空間意義賦予的過程，以及這個都市「象徵經濟」所形塑都市象徵空間----「流動空間」，如何再現這個新都市文化支配過程之基礎，來探討檢視亞洲城市發展現實中，現代化球場與城市認同之關係。

　　　　　As the symbol of modem city) how the modem stadiums (ballparks) to become and be created as their "identities of the city"? This article is an attempt to combine the discourses of "political economy" with "culture studies". First, by surveying the analysis of the historical transformation of American stadiums (ball-parks), we can understand the process that the modem stadiums(ballparks) defined the meaning of space and were naturalized through the rhetoric of public sphere and private investment. And, such shape of urban symbolic space of "symbolic economy" as "space offlows", represents a new and powerful base of cultural means of dominating cities. Finally, to dialogue with the Asian urban context, I try to deal with the relation of modern stadium and the identity of the city.