This paper is concerned with the ways in which people form attachments to recreational spaces. More specifically it examines the relationship between recreational spaces associated with sporting activity in urban neighbourhoods and place attachment. The focus is on the ways in which changes to these spaces exposes the affective bonds between people and their surroundings. The paper applies a qualitative methodology, namely focus groups and photo elicitation, to the case study of Parkhead, a neighbourhood in the East End of Glasgow. Parkhead has historically been subjected to successive waves of redevelopment as a result of deindustrialization in the late twentieth century. More recently redevelopment associated with the 2014 Commonwealth Games involved further changes to neighbourhood recreational spaces, including refurbishing of existing sports facilities and building new ones. This paper reflects on the cumulative impacts of this redevelopment to conclude (a) that recreational sports spaces provoke multi-layered and complex attachments that are inextricably connected to both temporal and spatial narratives and (b) that research on neighbourhood recreational spaces can develop our understanding of the intricate relationship between the social and physical dimensions of place attachment.

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连接场所依恋的物理和社会维度：从依恋到城市休闲空间，我们可以学到什么？

本文涉及人们形成娱乐空间依恋的方式。更具体地说，它研究了与城市社区体育活动相关的休闲空间与场所依恋之间的关系。重点是这些空间的变化如何揭示人与周围环境之间的情感纽带。本文将定性方法（即焦点小组和照片启发）应用于格拉斯哥东端居民区Parkhead的案例研究。由于20世纪后期的去工业化，Parkhead历来经历了一系列的再开发浪潮。最近与2014年英联邦运动会相关的重建项目包括对邻里娱乐空间的进一步更改，包括翻新现有的体育设施和建设新的体育设施。本文反思了这种重新发展的累积影响，得出的结论是：（a）休闲运动空间引发了与时空叙事密不可分的多层和复杂的依恋关系；（b）对邻里休闲空间的研究可以增进我们的理解场所依恋的社会和物理维度之间的复杂关系。