Usage Behaviour of Public Spaces Associated with Sport and Recreational Activities

Chacón-Borrego, Fátima; Corral-Pernía, Juan Antonio; Martínez-Martínez, Asunción; Vázquez, Carolina Castañeda

doi:10.3390/su10072377

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“…The rate of physical activity in children attending schools that provide proper quality sports facilities is definitely higher; also, where students are required to spend time in the open air where they can use part of the infrastructure without being attended to, the rate of physically active children is even higher [ 54 ]. It has been observed in several parts of the world that an increasing proportion of the population has been doing physical exercises in multi-purpose community spaces like parks or public squares [ 55 ]. Therefore, urban planning should also focus on developing these spaces in such a way so that they would be suitable for physical activities and are easily accessible for the population at the same time.…”

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“…When sports facilities are eye-catching in a given neighborhood, residents will be more willing to play some sport simply due to the visual stimulus [ 33 ]. An increasing proportion of residents do exercises in multi-purpose community places, parks, or public squares [ 55 ]. Residents’ physical activity is also influenced by the availability or lack of transportation infrastructure and facilities [ 39 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 142 , 143 ].…”

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Sustainability-Sport-Physical Activity

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The present study is a synthesizing analysis of international literature on correlations between sustainability, sport, and physical activity. The study of sustainability is considered essential in modern research; its multidisciplinary approach relies on sports science and sports economics as well. There are several aspects of sustainability that are closely associated with health and health preservation; the beneficial effect of exercise on health is also widely known. For the analysis of this complex matter, our current study relied on secondary sources, and besides exploring specialist literature, it also illustrates and analyzes related statistical data. Our results highlight the correlations between living environment and physical activity, the importance of increasing individual commitment towards sustainability and using green spaces for exercising, as well as questions on social and environmental development in relation to physical activity. The study revealed the existence of highly complex links between physical environment, physical activities, and sustainability. The results section of our study provides a brief summary on the possible ways of making people physically active. Increasing physical activity is of paramount importance for achieving the objectives formulated in relation to sustainability.

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“…The industry perception includes the perceptions of sports brand, skills training, service personnel, internet consulting, establishing industry base, insurance market, and stimulate consumption [4]. Past studies have demonstrated that the perception of public space has an effect on people's physical activity [11,16]. Thus, the space perception of RS should include perceptions of community sports space, road side, grass space, city parks, residences surrounding, and sports parks.…”

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“…The RS industry is comprised of companies engaging in a diversity of activities, from the manufacturing of RS goods, provision of RS services, media, to the construction of RS facilities [11]. In recent years, some researchers have focused on the study of the RS industry [4].…”

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A Study on the Relationship between Urban Residents’ Perception of Recreational Sports and Their Participation in Recreational Sports: Based on Gender Differences

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Background: The health of urban residents plays an important role in increasing the well-being of citizens, and therefore promoting the sustainable development of cities. Studies in Western countries have provided some evidence of the relationship between the urban residents’ perception of the recreational sports (RS), including perception of industry, space, experience, type, and support affecting recreational behaviors. Yet, evidence in China is not sufficient and, particularly, gender difference has not been discussed anywhere. Objectives: The present study aimed to see urban residents’ perception of RS and its effect on recreational sport participation by the residents. Method: The study was conducted in three big cities (Hangzhou, Chengdu, and Shanghai) of China to test the association between the urban residents’ perception of RS and their RS participation, in which gender differences were discussed. After taking their consent, a total of 764 participants (397 male and 367 female) aged from 15 to 65 were approached between April and October, 2018. The participants were given a survey to assess their perception and behavior of RS. T-test and the structural equation modeling were used to analyze gender differences in association between perception and behavior of RS. Results: For females, industry perception (β = 0.17, p = 0.00), space perception (females: β = 0.16, p = 0.00), and support perception (females: β = 0.09, p = 0.03) had a significant positive effect on RS participation. For males, industry perception (males: β = 0.13, p = 0.01) and type perception (males: β = 0.23, p = 0.00) showed a significant positive impact on participation of RS. However, space perception of males (β = −0.12; p = 0.01) and type perception of females (β = −0.11; p = 0.01) are negatively associated with their RS participation. The perception of experience was the most important factor influencing RS behaviors. Significant gender differences have appeared in all five different perception factors. The industry perception has significant and positive effects on both males and females’ RS participation. The type perception has significant positive effects on the male but negative on the female RS, while the space perception is just the opposite. The support perception has significant positive effects on the female RS practice but the influence is not obvious in the case of males. Conclusion: By adopting some measures, perception of RS may improve urban residents’ participation in RS.

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“…The use of social media for sport and exercise-related purposes prompts sporting activities in the physical environment and vice versa [12]. Therefore, sport and exercise-related activities carried out on social media platforms can provide rich information regarding places, the use of space, and people's experiences of landscape [15,43,44,98]. However, there is a lack of in-depth quantitative studies of sport and exercise-related activities in the literature using social media messages as a source of data.…”

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Extracting locations from sport and exercise-related social media messages using a neural network-based bilingual toponym recognition model

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Koivisto²,

Hiippala³

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Sport and exercise contribute to health and well-being in cities. While previous research has mainly focused on activities at specific locations such as sport facilities, "informal sport" that occur at arbitrary locations across the city have been largely neglected. Such activities are more challenging to observe, but this challenge may be addressed using data collected from social media platforms, because social media users regularly generate content related to sports and exercise at given locations. This allows studying all sport, including those "informal sport" which are at arbitrary locations, to better understand sports and exercise-related activities in cities. However, user-generated geographical information available on social media platforms is becoming scarcer and coarser. This places increased emphasis on extracting location information from free-form text content on social media, which is complicated by multilingualism and informal language. To support this effort, this article presents an end-to-end deep learning-based bilingual toponym recognition model for extracting location information from social media content related to sports and exercise. We show that our approach outperforms five state-of-the-art deep learning and machine learning models. We further demonstrate how our model can be deployed in a geoparsing framework to support city planners in promoting healthy and active lifestyles.

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Usage Behaviour of Public Spaces Associated with Sport and Recreational Activities

Cited by 6 publications

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Sustainability-Sport-Physical Activity

Sustainability-Sport-Physical Activity

A Study on the Relationship between Urban Residents’ Perception of Recreational Sports and Their Participation in Recreational Sports: Based on Gender Differences

Extracting locations from sport and exercise-related social media messages using a neural network-based bilingual toponym recognition model

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