Active living: the impact of renovating urban open spaces on increasing the level of physical activity among social groups

Description

The provision of active parks/public open space is the key factor in promoting active living, because people and specially low-income and elderlies are being more interested in doing non-organized/informal, and no-cost sports/physical activities in outdoor spaces in recent decades. Giving the concern about low rate of physical activities among low-income minority, elderlies and over weighted people, the municipality of Groningen invested in renovation of parks/ open spaces, in order to encourage all people to become more physically active. To what degree park renovations accomplish this goal is unknown.

Period	15 Jun 2017
Event title	14th European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS) Conference 2017: "The Values of Sport: between tradition and (post) modernity"
Event type	Conference
Conference number	14th
Location	Prague, Czech RepublicShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International