Landscapes for Sport

As a form of play, sports are deeply embedded in human nature and culture. Throughout history, physical exercise has had considerable impact on how we design and understand landscapes. Vice versa, designed and pre-modern “natural” landscapes have contributed to the formation and development of new sporting activities, cultures of movement, and the body. With the development of new sports and their increasing commodification, new types of landscapes continue to be created across the globe, invariably transforming our living environment in the process. The study of landscapes for sport offers insights into the manifold relationships between landscape design, its materialities, body and movement cultures as well as constructions of race, class, and gender. (SD)