Investigating and analyzing the role of exercise in urban parks and its effects on the quality of life (Case study: Rasht city)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Aliakbar salaripour ¹
• maryam sejodi ²
• Soroush Arabani Nezhad ³
• Mohammadreza Ghadimi Azad ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Department of Guilan University

² Assistant professor of Guilan University

³ Department of urban planning. faculty of art and architecture. university of Guilan

10.30495/jupm.2024.33363.4508

Abstract

The development of technology and the industrialization of societies has caused the need in citizens to be physically active and exercise in order to improve the quality of life, and one of the ways to improve the quality of life in urban areas is the active participation of people in collective activities and in urban spaces such as urban parks. This article seeks to investigate and analyze the role of exercising in urban parks and its effects on the quality of life. This research, based on the method of data collection, is a descriptive-survey and based on the quiddity of data, it is in the form of qualitative data, and it is also practical in terms of its purpose. The statistical population was the residents of Rasht city and the questionnaires were filled both online and in the field. the analysis of the collected information has been done based on structural equations model and by PLS software. The results show that the people of Rasht prefer to exercise individually, or if they exercise in a group, they prefer to do it with strangers. The importance of this research is due to the interdependence between sports and quality of life. Exercising causes physical and mental health and creates social relations and is also affected by these items. Finally, the components selected in this research have close relationships with each other, and it is true that each of them alone can have a positive effect on the lives of citizens, but in the end, all these indicators and components find their greatest meaning together.

Keywords

• Quality of life
• Exercise
• Urban parks
• Rasht city

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