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The sustainability of recreational sports in Chinese cities based on cognitive entropy. [PDF]

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Zou X, Wang J, Zhang X, Zheng M, Chen H.
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The costs of participation in and delivery of community sport in Australia-a narrative review. [PDF]

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Westerbeek H, Eime R, Owen K.
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Sports facilities, agglomeration, and public subsidies

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015
Abstract 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 property values, and increases local welfare ...
Brad R. Humphreys, Li Zhou
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Sport Equity: Benchmarking the Performance of English Public Sport Facilities

European Sport Management Quarterly, 2009
Abstract In the UK, public sector sport plays a potentially important role in promoting the inclusion of all groups in society, but inequalities have existed traditionally within sport, typically across social class, age, ethnicity and disability. Using the database of Sport England's National Benchmarking Service, this paper aims to investigate how ...
Yi-De Liu, Peter Taylor, Simon Shibli
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The operational efficiency of English public sport facilities

Managing Leisure, 2007
Based on the database of Sport England's National Benchmarking Service, this paper analyses the operational efficiency of 105 sports halls and swimming pools in England by adopting a mathematical programming technique – Data Envelopment Analysis. Incorporating an insight into the whole industry's performance as well as facilitating a shift from data ...
Yi-De Liu, Peter Taylor, Simon Shibli
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Study on Public Sports Facility Layout Planning

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2013
Public sports facilities are to ensure the quality of urban residents life, and are the carrier of the national fitness plan, and is the basis to improve the physical quality. Reasonable public sports facilities planning layout, can promote the improvement of the urban space layout structure, and realize the self-optimization and benign development of ...
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Measuring customer service quality of English public sport facilities

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 2009
Based on the database of Sport England's National Benchmarking Service, this paper analyses the customer service quality of 72 English public sport facilities by adopting three service quality measurement models and multivariate statistical analysis. The results suggest that cleanliness is the major weakness of the industry.
Yi De Liu, Peter Taylor, Simon Shibli
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Reflections on Public Funding for Professional Sports Facilities

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 2009
(2009). Reflections on Public Funding for Professional Sports Facilities. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 22-39.
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Public/Private Partnerships for Major League Sports Facilities

Journal of Sport Management, 2013
A review is presented of the book "Public/Private Partnerships for Major League Sports Facilities," by Judith Grant Long.
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The Consensus (?) on Public Spending on Professional Sports Facilities

Economic Development Quarterly
Based on surveys and reviews of past academic work, many social scientists and policy pundits claim that public spending on professional sports team venues has been and will be poor public spending choices. Since the late 2000s, this claimed consensus has become a strident policy stance—such spending violates public finance principles and cannot pass a
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