The aim of the article is to reveal the developmental tends of infrastructure of physical culture and sports of Ukraine. The research is dedicated to determine the dynamics of development of its main indices and to define the problems of functioning and ways of their solving. The amount of...

Целью статьи является выявление характера развития инфраструктуры физической культуры и спорта государства. Исследование направлено на определение динамики...

We develop a monopolistic competition model of urban service consumption and production that includes spatial structure and property values. The model shows that the introduction of a new professional sports facility and team generates agglomeration effects that change the mix of services and...

Using data from 56 professional sports facilities opened between 1995 and 2008, we find what at first appears to be a substantial neighborhood revitalization effect: the opening of a facility is associated with an increase in mortgage applications to purchase homes located in the neighborhood of...

This study analyses the sports infrastructure of Hamburg, Germany, from the residents’ perspective. Empirical evidence is provided for the Sports Place Theory developed by BALE (2003) using a micro-level dataset of 1,319 sports facilities, which is merged with highly disaggregated data on...