Urban Sport Populatioon: how the Sporting Habits Have Changed

Abstract

The theory of urban populations (Martinotti, 1993, D’Ovidio, Nuvolati 2011, ) as well as their classification is a consolidated theme of sociology that has contributed to deepening the sociology of lifestyle studies. More generally, the study of the sport in the city constitutes an important area of knowledge of the change in urban lifestyles, whether you are talking about sports or talking about enjoying the sports show (Gratton, Henry, 2001; Wilcox et alii, 2003) More recently, studies have focused not so much on the relationship between cities and sporting events as on urban planning in relation to the demand for space to be used for sport practicies (Sam, Hughson, 2013). However, there are no studies analyzing the relationship between the city and the new configurations of urban populations who play sports. Four urban populations of sportspeople we meet in all cities not only in the western world: runners, cyclists, skateboarders, parkour practitioners. And we treats about three of them How do they live the urban space recoded as a space for their physical and spiritual well-being? How do they relate to the different functionality with which the urban spaces they use were born? How do they intervene in the planning processes of space aimed at psycho-physical well-being? how do they organize their "demand for sport functionality"? And how they relate to urban space technologies D’Ovidio M, Nuvolati, G. (2011), Mobilità, classe creativa, popolazioni urbane, in «Sociologia urbana e rurale», 94, pp. 43-61 Martinotti, G., Metropoli. La nuova morfologia sociale della città, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993 Gratton. C., Henry, I. (eds) (2001), Sport in the City, Routledge, London-New York. Wilcox, R. C., Andrews, D L., Pitter, R., Irwin, R. L., Sporting Dystopias The Making and Meaning of Urban Sport Cultures, State University of New York Press, Albany. Sam. M., Hughson J. (2013), Sport in the City: Cultural Connections, Routledge, London-New York