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Urban Sports A SMART CITIES & SPORT PUBLICATION TABLE OF CONTENTS 02 page 03 page 04 page Message from the President Message from the Director of Urban sports in the spotlight of the World Union of Olympic Smart Cities & Sport Cities 07 page 09 page 11 page Interview with Dr. Andrew Interview with Raffaele Chiulli, Montréal: Outdoor sport Smith, Reader in School President, Global Association of facilities to increase physical of Architecture and Cities, International Sports Federation activity University of Westminster 15 page 19 page 21 page Ciclovias recreativas: A How Munich’s youth keeps FISE World Series: free and community-based the Olympic Legacy alive an extreme sports tour recreational programme MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD UNION OF OLYMPIC CITIES By 2050, 68% of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas. It means that cities will house 2.5 billion more people than today. To ensure that the benefits of urbanisation are fully shared and inclusive, the 2018 UN report on world urbanisation recommends implementing urban growth policies that ensure access to infrastructure and social services for all, focusing on the needs of the urban poor and other vulnerable groups for housing, education, health care, decent work and a safe environment. www.smartcitiesandsport.org Cities are made with a combination of public and private spaces, indoor and outdoor facilities, institutionalised and spontaneous playing fields. Due to space and budget constraints, most cities face a chronic lack of facilities which prevent them from assuring equal access to sport and physical activity to their citizens. Grégoire Junod Mayor of Lausanne To face this challenge, cities need to imagine alternative solutions both in terms of space and sport practice. Every square meter, every stair, every sidewalk, every street corner, every park is a potential playing field or, more widely, a space to practice physical activity in. Sport practice does not necessarily – or not only – need infrastructures and structures! The best arenas for physical activity and sport are the places in our cities. By promoting urban sports, cities are engaging into an ownership of their whole territory and revealing its genuine potential. By organising events in iconic places, cities are showcasing their attractiveness even beyond sport. Time has come to shape our cities in a way that invites the population to be naturally and physically active on any occasion, and to offer alternatives to sport practitioners. Current trends show that the new generation is already revolutionising the use of the urban landscape for sport and we can – we have to – get inspired by the youth to increase our offer to all generations and segments of society. Progress and innovation have facilitated our daily life by limiting physical activity and efforts. To reverse this trend, architecture and urban design can today contribute to keeping us healthy by promoting movement. Cities are not only made up of motionless stones and concrete blocks, but of spaces that stimulate physical activity and creativity. Let’s shape our cities into a constant invitation to move within spaces and from one space to another. The possibilities are endless and Smart Cities & Sport publications and events are an open door to these new perspectives. 2 THE CITY IS YOUR SPORT VENUE Urban public spaces and their design, with streets, squares, playgrounds and parks, play a key role in our daily lives. This is where we transit, we cycle, we drive, we meet, we play or we relax. These places are also an untapped resource for physical activities and sport. So how can we create urban spaces that function as quality spaces and draw people in to being active and playing sport? This publication highlights different aspects of urban sports. First, with an interview by Dr. Andrew Smith, from the University of Westminster, which focuses on the importance of urban @smartCTandsport planning to tackle the challenges of physical inactivity and the opportunity to stage sport events in public spaces featuring a new city image. Mélanie Duparc Director of Smart Cities & The second featured interview, given by Mr. Chiulli, President of GAISF, gives readers feedback on Sport the first edition of the World Urban Games held in Budapest earlier this year and the reutilization of industrial zones for this sport event. The publication also highlights other events showcasing urban sport, such as the MASH Festival organized in the Munich Olympic Stadium and the FISE World Series held in Hiroshima. In addition, we feature two case studies of cities which have totally rethought the use of their public spaces. We begin with the City of Montréal, which has released several projects to improve the sporting offer in its territory and aims at developing urban sport. We then discover the Ciclovías recreativas, innovative strategy implemented in different South American cities which ensures the full enjoyment and benefit of the closed-off city roads to its citizens. The new strategy may not be about enticing people to do sport in specialized sports venues and sports clubs, but to get them active right where they are in the streets, in public spaces and in the city parks, while simultaneously facing the challenges related to social inclusion in shared territories. I hope that the ideas and strategies presented in this publication will inspire you to find ways within your city to proactively rethink, retransform and reuse these spaces to be multifunctional and sustainable for the future generations to come. Enjoy the reading! 3 URBAN SPORTS OVERVIEW IN THE SPOTLIGHT With the first World Urban Games held in Budapest in September 2019, urban sports have acquired a new dimension. As IOC President Thomas Bach said for Some old disciplines are being replaced “incubator for innovation”. 3x3 basketball the occasion, „the World Urban Games by modern, youthful ones like BMX and has been on the YOG programme since are a wonderful illustration of the strong 3X3 basketball. Singapore 2020, BMX free style park has partnership that exists between GAISF made its debut at Buenos Aires 2018 and and the IOC. Shaping the future of sport YOGs as a lab breaking – inspired from street dancing can only be done in partnership. Standing – and sport climbing were also presented www.smartcitiesandsport.org together, united in our shared goal to To meet this challenge, the Youth Olympic in the Argentinian capital. promote our shared values of sport, we Games have clearly appeared as the can make the world a better place through best laboratory possible to introduce Using the Youth Olympic Games once sport.” As for GAISF President Raffaele new disciplines and measure their more as the perfect testing ground for the Chiulli, “The World Urban Games program attractiveness. This use of the YOG as a Olympic Movement and, in particular, to for Budapest 2019 presents a global stage platform to test and validate new sports explore ways to make the Games more for emerging disciplines, as well as an formats has now become one of the youthful and urban, the IOC worked opportunity for world-class athletes to key strategic goals for the IOC, which with the Buenos Aires 2018 Organising demonstrate their abilities and for people hopes to enhance the YOG’s role as an Committee to develop one of the most in urban areas to take a proactive role ground-breaking concepts to date, the in sport”. Urban Park. Using a popular green area of the city where people already gathered, During the last few years, the IOC has Sport climbing, new urban sports and disciplines were been sizing up the growing place of urban ” surfing, and brought to life right in the beating heart sports in overall sport practice and above of Buenos Aires. These included 3x3 skateboarding will all among the youth. Evolution of sport basketball, sport climbing, breaking and has been constant over the years and the make their debuts BMX freestyle park – all of which had first Olympic Movement is integrating these in the Japanese been tested at a Youth Olympic Games changes. As Franco Carraro, the Chair of capital next year. If edition. Youth and street culture were the Olympic Programme Commission blended with sport, food trucks provided explains, “the pace of change continues confirmed following a real taste of Buenos Aires and access to accelerate in both sport and society their maiden Olympic was free for everyone with a festival-style but the construction of the Olympic appearances, the bracelet. Programme continues to find a balance three sports will between the traditional forms of sport Many experiential elements tested at the and those newer sports that are growing appear on the Urban Park will be seen at Tokyo 2020, in popularity and reaching out to new programme for a such as opening the venues to fans when audiences.” second time in Paris.” the Olympic competition finishes and the opportunity to try out sports. The Urban 4 Park did not just offer an opportunity to BMX freestyle park, skateboarding and generations and become a blueprint for wow local audiences in Buenos Aires, 3X3 basketball are all set to make their future Olympic Games. The proximity of however; millions of fans also tuned in debut on the Olympic programme at the the two venues to each other will help via the Olympic Channel to watch the high- Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. According to create a youth-focused urban atmosphere adrenaline sports. This was in addition to Carraso, “the changes to the Tokyo 2020 in the area, increasing the opportunity for engaging with athletes and influencers event programme reflect the changing engagement with fans and delivering a via social media, ensuring that fans on nature of sport and the changing unique Tokyo 2020 experience.