4.1.Mapping London’s skateparks infrastructure

4.1. Mapping London’s skateparks infrastructure

The following map describes the distribution of London’s skateparks in the city. The categorisation of the skateparks was done in accordance with the main elements of a skatepark (bowls; ramps of three different materials, concrete, metal and wood; concrete parks and finally bowl and park) (Figure 7).

As a general overview, the city’s core is characterised by the presence of bowls and concrete parks, whereas the periphery has more ramps skateparks (metal, wood, and concrete). The core is represented by the ten km radius from the House of Vans area. Nineteen bowl skateparks are in London, eleven of them are in the city’s core. Additionally, eight of the nine concrete parks in London are inside the 10km core ring. These findings reinforce the fact of an inner ring of bowls and concrete skateparks.

The sum of the skateparks with ramps represents the higher amount of locations. From 61 mapped locations 29 skateparks are ramp locations (Figure 8). Nevertheless, 16 of the 29 locations are outside the ten km ratio ring. Additionally, outside the London area, four locations were mapped and three of them were ramp locations (A25, A4146, A1081). These findings suggested that the of the majority of the ramp locations are in the periphery.

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