Culture depends on religion, some time as a part of religion. Cultural activity considers one type of recreation. It attracts the tourists or visitors. Cultural place considers as recreational center and recreational facilities provide by those centers. Importance of those recreational facilities, in context of cultural activities of an urban area, calculates as a promising factor. It also reveals that, type of recreational places and their structural conditions includes in this discussion. Accommodation facilities, type of activities perform by the recreational places are the major components of this study. On the other hand, supporting information on the population engaged with recreational facilities as an occupation, for which the activities perform, their social status, occupational pattern and literacy also provides through this discussion.
Locational importance of the recreational places, problems create by those recreational places and the city growth in a planned way with the views of recreational facilities shows the prime objective of this discussion. Emphasize has given on the regulatory framework. The laws related with the city development activities particularly on recreational facilities consider as the major statutes and enactments.
The countryside recreation glossary of Britain defines ‘recreation’ as any pursuit engage upon during leisure time, other than pursuit to which people are normally ‘highly committed’. The term leisure and recreation are not synonymous. “Leisure is essentially the time, one deserves free from income earning responsibilities and from personal and family house keeping activities ………. recreation, in any socially accepted sense, involves constructive activities for the individual and the community” (Britannica). Sources of recreation vary from man to man, place to place and society to society. But whatever the source, recreation seems an essential part of any civilization.
Chapter-18 Recreation