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Sport and Smart Communities. Assessing the Sporting Attractiveness and Community Perceptions of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy)

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Sport has always played a very important role in civil society, becoming a clear expression of different cultures and lifestyles throughout history. Nowadays, it is considered an essential enabler in pursuing sustainable development of our cities and regions. A prerequisite for improvement of sporting attractiveness of our contemporary cities is to integrate sport into broader urban transformation and regeneration processes. As a matter of fact, more and more people prefer to play sport in different places and at different times, understanding the city as an ideal palimpsest for sports activities. In this regard, the Smart Community has gradually become an extraordinary source of information useful for policy makers. A wide range of ICT tools allows to develop Community Maps which reveal needs and aspirations of people, thus informing sports policies and a community-based participatory planning. The study aims to assess the sporting attraction of Cagliari through the analysis of different evidences drawn from the community perception of sports activities and initiatives. It focused on material and immaterial actions carried out to promote sport in the city, smart community sport behaviours, community perceptions on benefits that sport provides for human well-being and for city development through the administration of a questionnaire. The outcome highlights the role of Smart community in understanding sport behaviours of local people and in defining shared strategies to strengthen the sport-city link in the sustainable development of Cagliari.

This study is endorsed by Sportiumscrl (Milan), a specialized design consortium that has signed (10 September 2018) a memorandum of understanding with the University of Cagliari for all the design phases the new stadium of Cagliari.

This paper is the result of the joint work of the authors. In particular: Sect.  1 by G. Balletto; Sect. 2 by M. Ladu, Sect. 3 by G Borruso; Sect. 4 has been jointly written by M. Ladu and G Balletto; Sect. 5 by G Balletto; Sect. 6 by G. Borruso; Sect. 7 has been jointly written by M. Ladu and G. Balletto.

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    Proposed by the two authors G. Balletto and G. Borruso (April 2018).

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  1. DICAAR - Department of Civil Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Mara Ladu & Ginevra Balletto

  2. DEAMS - Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics Sciences “Bruno de Finetti”, University of Trieste, 34127, Trieste, Italy

    Giuseppe Borruso

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Ladu, M., Balletto, G., Borruso, G. (2019). Sport and Smart Communities. Assessing the Sporting Attractiveness and Community Perceptions of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). In: Misra, S., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11624. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24311-1_14

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