In a middle-sized municipality in central Finland, a sports facility plan was worked out between 1988-90. It was possible to coordinate the planning so that sufficient areas were reserved for various types of sports facilities. The sports planning was based on research into people's sporting...

The demand for sport for all cannot be achieved without sports facilities. Space in sufficient supply and appropriate quality are the prerequisites for a successful sport-for-all initiative. The planning, construction and utilization of sports facilities must be supported by stable, permanent...

The paper discusses the expanding sports business in Japan and illustrates its problems. With the steady expansion of the Japanese economy, Japanese values and desires are shifting from material affluence to mental affluence. Sports activities are varied and require cultural quality. However,...

This paper examines the minimum requirements for simple game and sports facilities that are financially feasible for communities in reaching their goal of providing usable facilities of sufficient quality and durability and adequate accessibility for all potential users. Seven minimum requirements ...

Swimming is a popular, life-time activity for people from all social backgrounds, age groups, gender, disabled and non-disabled. One of the tasks of government is to ensure that sports facilities are created for and serve the needs of everyone. For swimming pools, a whole process of development...

Children's understanding of their surroundings as 'things', and of themselves as 'persons', depends on the environment, both physical and social, in which their development occurs and in which they live. Whether the process of seeking information is one of actively moving around or passively...

Traditionally, sport was organized into sports clubs widely regarded as a counterworld to the sphere of occupation, marketing, and profit-oriented behaviour. The ideal of amateurism and restrictive advertising policy set limits on the economic usability of sport. The orientation of sports sciences ...

The volume contains the main papers presented at the World Congress on Sport for all, held in Finland in 1990. The contributions are multidisciplinary and cover the whole range of themes associated with the concept of sport for all, including physical fitness; leisure, sport and quality of life;...

The 'no-smoking sports team' programme, launched by the Finnish National Board of Health in 1985, is a new approach in anti-tobacco health education based on the interest of sports clubs in promoting a healthy lifestyle among their members in all their activities. The idea is that the good and...

Prompted by public desire to improve the educational development of young people through sporting activities, a major programme for junior sports was undertaken by the Finnish Central Sports Federation in 1987. The programme includes separate educational goals for four groups. These goals include...