The Importance of Sports Infrastructure for Residential Neighbourhoods' Centres

Abstract

Sports infrastructure is considered to be the fundamental, physical, and design unit required to facilitate performing sport activities, and had become one of the important requirements in residential neighbourhoods' centres and a complementary part of infrastructure that aims to serve all community groups. It's also an important complementary part for residential neighbourhoods' centres as it creates areas for the different activities, in addition to its great social and economic impact in the contemporary community. It's also linked to the provision and type of sport institutes of a community (for example: gardens and recreation centres being utilized for sport uses). That's why it's important to search in the concepts that determine this structure in residential neighbourhoods' centres, which represent the issue of this research that states: there is no clear perception about the importance of the sports infrastructure in the integration of residential neighbourhood centres, which make them suffer from shortage or neglect. This research aims to build a comprehensive theoretical framework that includes presenting the theoretical concepts and influencing variables of the sports infrastructure and its possible values and clarifying its role in the integration of residential neighbourhood centres. In addition to the sustainable vision for these centres where the research assumes that sports infrastructure is part of the integration of the growing residential neighbourhoods' integrated centres.