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title: "Local Sports (72)"
created: 2026-07-01
updated: 2026-07-01
type: concept
status: compiled
namespace: pattern-language
pattern_number: 72
pattern_name: "Local Sports"
source_repository: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md
source_url: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md/blob/master/Patterns/Local%20Sports%20%2872%29.md
license_note: Non-commercial reuse with attribution; see namespace README and source LICENSE.md.
related_patterns:
  - "Work Community (41)"
  - "Health Center (47)"
  - "Building Complex (95)"
  - "Bathing Room (144)"
  - "Still Water (71)"
  - "Building Thoroughfare (101)"
  - "Opening to the Street (165)"
  - "Seat Spots (241)"
  - "Sitting Wall (243)"
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# Local Sports (72)

> Source pattern from the abridged `apl-md` corpus. Use as a design reference and constraint seed; do not treat as commercial-clean training data.

### Problem
>The human body does not wear out with use. On the contrary, it wears down when it is not used.

### Solution
>Scatter places for team and individual sports through every work community and neighborhood: tennis, squash, table tennis, swimming, billiards, basketball, dancing, gymnasium…and make the action visible to passers-by, as an invitation to participate.

### Related Patterns
... all the areas where people live and work - especially the [[Work Community (41)]] and the areas looked after by the preventive programs of the [[Health Center (47)]] - need to be completed by provisions for sports and exercise. This pattern defines the nature and distribution of this exercise.

Treat the sports places as a special class of recognizable simple buildings, which are open, easy to get into, with changing rooms and showers - [[Building Complex (95)]], [[Bathing Room (144)]]; combine them with community swimming pools, where they exist - [[Still Water (71)]] ; keep them open to people passing - [[Building Thoroughfare (101)]], [[Opening to the Street (165)]],and provide places where people can stop and watch - [[Seat Spots (241)]], [[Sitting Wall (243)]] ...

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 363.
> #APL/confidence/medium
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> #APL/Town-Patterns/Local-Recreation