Spatial development of sports facilities in Hungarian cities of county rank

• Authors: Gábor Kozma , János Pénzes , Ernő Molnár
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Nowadays more and more attention is devoted to the spatial development of the location of sports facilities within cities. The main aim of our paper is to observe the most important spatial characteristics of their development in Hungarian cities of county rank. In these cities three main periods of development of sports facilities can be observed. Larger sports facilities were constructed especially on the edge of cities or in the suburbs, while in the case of smaller facilities a bigger role was played by locations within the city boundaries. As regards the factors influencing the location of sports facilities, the most important role was played by the location of available land areas, besides accessibility and from the mid-1960s links to existing facilities can be mentioned as well.

Keywords

EN

sports facilities; urban structure; Hungary; cities of county rank; location factors

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 31
• Pages: 37-44

Dates

published

2016-03-01

received

2014-11-18

revised

2015-07-12

accepted

2015-12-12

online

2016-03-10

Contributors

author

Gábor Kozma

• University of Debrecen, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Planning, Egyetem tér 1, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary; phone: + 3 652 518 667

author

János Pénzes

• University of Debrecen, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Planning, Egyetem tér 1, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary; phone: + 3 652 518 667

author

Ernő Molnár

• University of Debrecen, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Planning, Egyetem tér 1, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary; phone: + 3 652 518 667

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bog-2016-0003