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Urban skating sport: Current research on sports-related urbanity

The aim of this thematic issue of the Journal Society and Leisure is to initiate, gather together and compare recent research on urban board sports. The intention is not to produce an exhaustive assessment, but rather to measure the changing trends of research in this field. In this respect, Walker (2013) recalls in his academic study that urban board sports, and more particularly skateboarding, are generally studied from relatively precise analytical angles and usually multidisciplinary perspectives, such as the appropriation of urban spaces, the design of practice areas, the subcultures of the practitioners, risk-taking and related injuries, as well as the design or even modification of practice equipment. Questioning these practices, their social role and the myths surrounding them means going beyond hasty opinion and preconceived ideas and, hopefully, including the results of this study in initial or continuing training for students or actors who decide on the future of these practices when they organize how sports audiences are to be taken into consideration, plan the development of equipment or decide on mobility policies. In the management of sports or youth organizations, as in public policies, it would appear that knowledge work is the basis for any policy aimed at democratic leisure, a factor of individual and societal development that is questioned by the relatively recent emergence of urban board sports.