Offering a Paradigmatic Model for a Sports city Designing Requirements

Abstract

A city’s design should bring about balance in all the social, economic and bioenvironmental needs of the society. The present study offers a paradigmatic model for a sports city’s design requirements. The study uses the grounded theory method of research. Interviews were made with 18 experts in this regard. The study findings indicated that, in designing a sports city, it is necessary to pay attention to the following matters: the sports places and spaces, all the individuals’ interests, causal factors, planning, sports places’ adjacency to other land uses, optimal siting in respect to background factors, designing requirements, proportion between the areas’ dimensions and properties, services, population, strategic factors’ users, quiddity and quality of creating and designing the pivotal factor, significant components of urban life, governmental responsibilities, city’s contextual construct and shape, the balance between the residential uses and public spaces, urban management of the intervening factors, tourism attractions, economic and developmental effects, society’s healthcare, reduction in economic dependency, bioenvironmental stability, serving justice and enhancement of quality by the city’s proper designing and the model’s outcomes.