David Swindell

Biography

David Swindell is the Director of the Center for Urban Innovation and an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. His work focuses primarily on community and economic development, especially public financing of sports facilities, the contribution of sports facilities to the economic development of urban space, collaborative arrangements with public, private, and nonprofit organizations for service delivery, and citizen satisfaction and performance measurement standards for public management and decision making. His research has been published in State and Local Government Review, Public Administration Review, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, Social Science Quarterly, the American Review of Public Administration, Public Productivity and Management Review, Public Administration Quarterly, the Journal of Sports Management, Johnson’s Minor League Baseball and Local Economic Development, Rosentraub’s Major League Losers, and The Brooking Institution’s Sports, Jobs, and Taxes.