Sport Management and Development
Ali Sajedi; Sayyed Mohammad Hossein Razavi; Masoumeh Kalateh Seifari
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was prioritizing city parks in designing sports city from the perspective of experts.Methodology: The present study was combined and the tools for data collection of semi-depth interviews with experts in the qualitative phase and questionnaire in quantitative part ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was prioritizing city parks in designing sports city from the perspective of experts.Methodology: The present study was combined and the tools for data collection of semi-depth interviews with experts in the qualitative phase and questionnaire in quantitative part with planning experts, urban architecture and sports management were continued in the qualitative part of interviews until theoretical saturation were achieved. The validity of the data was confirmed by the review of three participants. To confirm the repetition of codes by two experts. The quantitative part of the questionnaire was distributed in 21 questions across 9 values. Validity of the panel of experts and reliability was confirmed using FuzzyAHP package in R software and prioritized using AHP.Results: In the qualitative findings, seven components of garden, public park, sports park, elderly park, street park, amusement park and adventure park obtained and their priority levels got examined. The results showed that park components are street park (0.264), sports park (0.231), public park (0.190), elderly park (0.114), gardens (0.081), amusement park (0.073) and adventure park (0.047).Conclusion: Among the various parks the Park Street was the most important and adventure park was the least important in designing sports city in terms of planning specialists, urban architecture and sports management.
