urban planning & infrastructures
shaping the city
While a sedentary lifestyle causes increasing problems, buildings and other urban facilities can be conceived of and designed for the promotion of physical activity. As hosts of sport facilities or as open-air sport and physical activity grounds, cities are reinventing themselves to provide residents with more opportunities to combine physical activity and urban life. Sport and physical activity are increasingly included in urban development plans for shaping the city differently and consciously.
Interview with Marta Rofin Serrà, Project Coordinator, Urbact Healthy Cities Network
“We have asked Marta Rofin Serrà from the URBACT Healthy Cities Network to share best practices and tips on how cities can increase their citizens’ health through urban planning and sport.”
Three questions for David Escude, Councillor for Sports, Barcelona City Council
“The project includes complementarity with other mobility, social and housing support policies.”
Barcelona Superblocks: New mobility on the move
“Superblocks were conceived as resilient environments which can be very much inspiring today.”
Montreal, Canada: The city as a playing field
The term “active design” combines all the actions taken by urban planning and architecture stakeholders to encourage or multiply opportunities to be physically active and provide easy access to a healthy diet.
Interview with Dr. Andrew Smith, Professor, University of Westminster
A more progressive option is to ensure urban public spaces are places that encourage physical activity.
Planning and financing new sports facilities: the various approaches
“The range of financial options for cities to consider is broad and there is no “one-size-fits-all” model.”
Closeby sports facilities with high availabilities do not guarantee strong levels of physical activities
A summary of the findings of the academic paper “Participation in sports is not predicted by distance to and availability of sports facilities”
The development of ‘Sports-City’ zones and their potential values as tourism resources
A successful sports-city zone to attract tourist at times when major events are not taking place.
infrastructures
climate change
technology
active lifestyle
integration
infrastructures
technology
physical activities
integration