Fact or Folly: A Review of Convention Center Follies

This article responds to Heywood Sanders' book Convention Center Follies. It argues for a more moderate picture of the state of supply and demand in the convention industry, and it critiques Sanders' narrative of convention center development. In his book Convention Center Follies: Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities, Heywood T. Sanders presents a critical account of the convention center industry. He targets local and state governments, business interests, and professional convention consultants as complicit in the systematic over-building of convention centers in an effort to demonstrate that, on the whole, convention center developments represent a misuse of public and private capital.

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