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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Sports facilities"”.
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Spatial Econometric Analysis of Property Values---the Impact of Sports Facilities on Local Residential Property Values
Most literature on the economic impact of sports facilities examines the effect of these facilities on income, employment, and taxes at the metropolitan statistical area level. Very few studies examine the impacts of sports facilities on other parts of the local economy. This dissertation …
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Assessment of Sport Participation for People with Disabilities at Universities in Limpopo Province
… discouraging them from participating in sports activities designed to promote a healthy lifestyle. These restrictive environments include architectural, societal, and personal barriers. The study aimed to assess, develop, and validate a sports participation program for people with …
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Covering the bases : variations in the arguments to justify publicly-funded baseball stadiums
… major U.S. cities have invested in major league sports facilities, often with the logic that they will generate significant economic development. Skepticism is growing however, as research refutes the claims of economic benefits. In response to this, team owners have resorted to other tactics to …
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A multilevel study of effects of socioeconomic status, income inequality, and the built environment on adult obesity in China
… by the presence of fast food restaurants and sports facilities is modestly associated with the obesity risk. When stratified by built environment contexts, the associations between multidimensional SES and obesity vary across the contexts, but inequality effects on obesity remain significant …
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A corporate fitness center : an example for the reuse of the Empire Stores, Brooklyn, N.Y.
… regard employee and corporate health. Typically, sports facilities were the province of recreation or education facility planners. A category of sports activities has been isolated, however, for its cardiovascular characteristics and is the basic component of a fitness program The physiological …
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Portable low-cost magnetic resonance imaging
… surgical suites, ambulances, emergency rooms, sports facilities, or rural healthcare sites. Methods: A truly portable (<100kg) proof-of-concept MRI scanner has been constructed and validated, which replaces conventional gradient encoding with a rotating lightweight, cryogen-free, low-field …
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Analysis of deployable strut roof structures
… are designed to be operable roofs spanning over sports facilities. During deployment, the center of the structure opens or closes to accommodate changes in weather conditions. Building on the geometry established in other work, the relationships between the basic geometric parameters of angulated …
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'When women look their worst':Women and sports participation in interwar Scotland
… how women’s involvement in physically demanding sports were influenced by existing discourses and enabled the emergence of new ones. This thesis does not aim to chart the chronological growth and development of specific sports but rather seeks to understand the ways in which sport was …
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Biodiversity, people, and logistics: the balancing act of urban park management
… exercise equipment, while overall, recreational facilities were more popular than sports facilities. Logistically, in urban centres where a park management sector was present, it was often underfunded and understaffed, and so while the progress made by these groups is commendable, they are simply …
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Creating Connections in the City: From road to street; and buffer zone to landscape: Residual highway space as a tool in stitching segregated neighbourhoods into the urban fabric
… to create connections. It finds its program in a sports centre on the border between Bonteheuwel and Langa. By understanding how our cities came to be fragmented globally, and its impact in South Africa, this project unpacks case studies that have created connections, extracting strategies that …
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Sunergy of Architecture and Sport
A world class sports complex will impact on the neighboring communities by providing grounds for interaction. The idea of an economic lift through international exposure and athletic competitions such as soccer, swimming, gymnastics, volleyball, tennis, basketball, golf, track and possibly the …
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Sport, space and segregation Pietermaritzburg, 1900-1980
… of the individuals targeted. Black sportspersons were in effect squatters at impermanent facilities. Black recreation was a challenge to White ideas about the use of urban space. For Africans, the controlled area preferred by the authorities was the beerhall, not the sports field. …
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Enhancing our understanding of accessibility to sport in Wales through geospatial analysis
… aspects of physical and mental health. Access to facilities has been shown to be an important contributory factor influencing sports participation rates. At the same time organisations such as Sport Wales have, as one of their primary remits, the need to reduce inequalities in take-up by …
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An evaluation of the implementation of physical education curriculum in selected secondary schools in mansa district, Zambia
… of instructional materials, human resource and facilities for the implementation of PE curriculum. Through this study, the attitudes of school administrators and teachers towards the teaching of PE curriculumweredetermined. The challenges faced by teachers in the implementation of the PE …
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Analysis of the 1966 Summer Olympic Games on real estate markets in Atlanta
… sector. In addition to new and renovated sports facilities, the Olympics left downtown Atlanta with many notable legacies that are fueling urban growth and revitalization: a new 21 acre park, renovated parks and public plazas, new street lighting, tree plantings, and other streetscape …
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ADA Compliance and Accessibility of Aquatic Facilities in the North Texas Area
… determine the degree to which existing aquatic facilities in the North Texas metroplex complied with the 1991 Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) and the proposed Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines: Recreation Facilities (ADAAG supplement). …
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