7. Leisure at the local scale: Sport and Recreation

Aim: To understand the leisure hierarchy and apply it on a transect of Toulouse.

Settlement Hierarchy

Facilities & Activities Offered.

Facilities Facilities Activities offeredActivities offered

National sports centre Stadia for national sports, e.g. Stade de France, Wembley, Lansdown Road.

Community Hall or Community Open space

Badminton. Keep Fit. Yoga. Football. Basketball. Salle de fete. Petanque.

As above plus, Tennis courts, sports hall, swimming pool

As above plus: tennis; netball; gym; hockey;

Professional stadia Football; rugby; basketball; hockey; ice hockey; horse racing; dog racing

Open areas Parks and gardens for recreation. Children's play areas.

Using your copy of the settlement hierarchy …

• Annotate onto it where you would find the facilities set out in the table and activities offered.

• Complete a short piece of writing to explain the relationship between urban settlement size and the recreational and sports facilities provision (300 words)

• Include details on the frequency, size, range and catchment area.

Intra Urban Spatial Patterns

Over to you …Examine the distribution and location of recreational

and sports facilities in the transect area from Toulouse CBD toPibrac (rural urban fringe).

• Create an annotated map (10) with details of facilities and locations spatially represented.

• Then completed a piece of commentary (10) for the map that covers the following points:

1. Relate any patterns that you reveal to:2. The patterns of accessibility3. Land values €€4. Physical characteristics5. Socio economic conditions