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== Street sports ==
Street sports are sports held in [[urban area|urban]] environments.  Street sports are an expression of the spontaneous, improvisational and creative origins of sport adapted by human ingenuity to the urban environment. In historical terms their origins are traceable to the very earliest evidence of sports in Greek and Roman civilisation.<ref name="Read">''Urbanization and the Evolution of the City''; Reader, J.; Vintage; (2005)</ref>  Street sports are a hybrid form of sport and reflect the adaptation of conventional sports to the cityscape.<ref name="Fouc"/>  Viewing the city through as a living, bustling, and thriving organism helps to cast light on the nature of that which is urban and to begin to home-in on particular [[Wiktionary:salient#Pronunciation|salient]] features of urban life.  It is only with the advent of this relatively modern perspective on the urban that it has become possible to speak in terms of street sports.<ref name="Read"/>  

[[Parkour]] artist Sebastien Foucan has defined the sport of [[Freerunning]] as a ‘physical art’.<ref name="Fouc">Foucan, S; ''Freerunning: Find Your Way''; Foucan, S.; Michael O'Mara Books Ltd.; (2008)</ref>  In the words of  Foucan, street sports are "...a philosophy concerned with the quest of personal and social realisation..."<ref name="Fouc"/>  A similar point of view can be found in the notion of the philosophy of urban solo-climbing expounded by [[Alain Robert]].  Likewise, the high-wire walker, [[Philippe Petit]], whose performance include walking between the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] towers in 1974, has described his 'interventions' on the urban environment as 'art crimes', suggesting their essence is creative and constitutes an expression—an interaction with the city.<ref>''To Reach the Clouds''; Petit, P.; Faber & Faber; (2002)</ref>