Rolling the city. Tracing skaters’ network of practice in London

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4.3. Skatepark–skatepark network of practice (one-mode network) In this part of the research, the results of the skatepark–skatepark network are presented. Table 4 summarises the shared locations among the skater community to the sport practice. A shared location is defined as a skatepark with a specific number of links towards itself, it means that users of some specific locations also visit other skateparks. According to the findings, the following skateparks correspond to the preferred shared locations in London: Mile End (80 links), Clapham Common (76 links), Undercroft (64 links), Bay Sixty 6 (58 links) and Crystal Palace (58 links). Table 4. Shared locations and sum of tie strength. Author.

Figure 10 shows twenty-nine shared locations, the sum of tie strength in the nodes ratio, and 32 London’s skateparks around the traced network (Appendix 3).

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