The urban landscape as affordance for adolescents’ everyday physical activity

Renáta Aradi, Kine Halvorsen Thorén and Ingunn Fjørtoft

Landscape Research, 2016, vol. 41, issue 5, 569-584

Abstract: This study explores factors in the physical outdoor environment of the urban landscape that promote or hinder adolescents’ physical activity (PA). The analysis was inspired by Gibson’s affordance concept. The study combines actual use with potential affordances in neighbourhoods to generate special classes of actualised affordances. Two Norwegian school districts and their local neighbourhoods in different landscapes were selected as case areas. The patterns of adolescents’ everyday leisure-time activity were recorded using ‘children’s tracks’ methodology. Landscape characterisation connected the activity patterns to the physical structure of the landscape. Our study suggests that urban landscape structure is associated with PA patterns and adolescents’ choice of activity types. Our results confirm previous studies as regards the importance of neighbourhood design and facilities for PA in promoting such activity.

Date: 2016
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