Landscapes for sport : histories of physical exercise sport and health Introduction. Landscapes for sport : histories of physical exercise sport and health Sonja Dümpelmann Healthy exercise for social elites : sport and the early modern Italian villa Katherine M. Bentz Spaces for speed : urban streetscapes and horse racing in Renaissance Italy and Germany Christian Jaser Out in prison : the soccer field in Krems Prison Austria Gabu Heindl In search of topographic freedom : mid century sports nature and the visceral body Jeffrey Blankenship Fields of play as laboratories of spatial invention Richard Cleary Wild stadia : vernacular sport spaces in the Polish countryside during the socialist era Marta Kurkowska Budzan European fields : the landscape of lower league football Hans van der Meer The urban gymnasia of nineteenth century Paris between landscape and architecture Sun Young Park A clinical landscape : crafting the healthy (re)productive body in modern Argentina Fabiola López Durán Landscape body and politics in France 1900 1940 : the case of the Parc des sports and Collège dathlètes in Reims Dorothée Imbert In a forest Ann Shelton Labyrinth hippodrome racetrack : shaping landscapes and bodies for sport nineteenth and early twentieth century Berlin Sonja Dümpelmann Sport landscape as modernizing agent : the Komazawa Olympic Park in Tokyo Christian Tagsold Landscape architecture and democracy : planning appropriating and experiencing the Munich Olympic Park and Village Kay Schiller Black sporting culture in Chicagos landscapes of hope : becoming modern in the Great Migration era Brian McCammack. Sport is deeply embedded in human nature and culture and it is central to human well being. Outdoor sport and physical exercise have had considerable impact on how we design live in and understand landscapes. Landscapes and environments have in turn contributed to the formation and development of new sport activities as well as cultures of movement and the body. How have perceptions and politics of the body played a role in the evolution of different landscapes for sport What do they tell us about their inherent culture and use and how do landscapes for sport embody constructions of race gender and place What are the interrelationships between more and less agonistic sport and body cultures their politics and the sites and spaces that accommodate them Landscapes for Sport explores these intersections from multiple perspectives in different parts of the world. They focus on outdoor spaces that have been designed built and used for physical exercise and various competitive and non competitive sports since the early modern period. Frequently overlooked and taken for granted these landscapes for sport often constitute significant areas of open space in and outside our cities. This volume uncovers their relevance and meanings