Sport and Public Space. The role of sport infrastructure in the evolution of the city

The recent evolution of sport infrastructures has emerged as a ground for experimentation through the implementation of social-environmental policies and urban rehabilitation programs aimed at promoting new and high wellbeing and sociality standards. Over the last few decades, the focus on health issues, closely related to the quantity and value increase of leisure, has affected the perception and configuration of the infrastructural system devoted to recreational-sport activities in a way that has put it at the centre of a wider meditation on the new roles and meanings of public space.