Presenting a Child-Friendly City Logo Design with a Focus on Physical Activity

Afshoon, Vahid; Afshari, Mostafa; Motalebi, Lena

doi:10.22034/ijumes.2025.2071098.1332

Presenting a Child-Friendly City Logo Design with a Focus on Physical Activity

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Vahid Afshoon ¹

Mostafa Afshari ²

Lena Motalebi ¹

¹ Department of Physical Education, Sho.C., Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran

² Department of Sport Management, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/ijumes.2025.2071098.1332

Abstract

Child-friendly city is one of the urban planning theories, in line with allocating citizenship rights to children and addressing their demands and needs, with the aim of creating an opportunity for children to shape or change their surrounding environment. The aim of the present study is to present a model for developing child-friendly urban spaces with an emphasis on play and sports. The present study will be a mixed-method study from the perspective of the applied objective, qualitative in terms of the nature of the data, and mixed-method study and exploratory in terms of the implementation method, and will use interviews. The statistical population of the study includes all professors, experts, specialists, and expert professors active in the field of sports management and children's sports specialists, as well as professors in the field of urban planning and development in Iran. In qualitative content analysis, data collection and analysis are consciously carried out simultaneously, and primary data collection is carried out in order to form a continuous data collection process that provides opportunities for the researcher to increase the adequacy of appropriate categories. MAXQDA software version 2020, which was published in 2020, will also be used to conduct the aforementioned analyses. The findings of the study showed that how children participate in sports and physical activities is a complex issue in which many factors are involved.

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Highlights

Propose a model for developing child-friendly urban spaces with a focus on play and sports to empower children in shaping their environment.
Mixed-method, applied-objective study using qualitative interviews and content analysis with MAXQDA 2020 for data organization.
Child participation in sports and physical activities is a complex phenomenon influenced by multiple interacting factors.
The study highlights the need for integrated urban planning and sports strategies to create supportive, child-centered environments.

Keywords

Child-friendly city

citizenship rights

quality of space

urban environment

urban planning

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