A Preliminary Study on Using Space Syntax to Aid Land Subdivision inUrban Planning: a case study in the Changhua City expanded planning area
| Autor: | Jun-ping Zhang, 張鈞評 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 99 Space syntax is a morphology-based spatial analysis theory developed by Professor Bill Hillier. In its more than twenty-year’s development, space syntax combined with sociology has proved its effectiveness on describing general human spatial usage pattern and in particular explaining human movement pattern in urban form. New urbanism proposes to alter the common urban planning practice since modernism that divides cities into strict residential and commercial zones. New urbanism intends to recreate the diversified and vibrant atmosphere of the traditional urban street and block so that would avoid the monotonic urban landscape and isolated urban life of typical modern cities. Changhua City is one of the oldest major urban settlements in Taiwan. Through its nearly three-century-development, Changhua City now contains various types of urban block delineation and associated urban landscape. This paper reports an empirical study focusing on the Changhua City expanded planning area to explore the applicability of space syntax on analyzing urban block delineation. The study uses the axial analysis of space syntax to compare two types of urban block delineation in the expanded planning area, one type based on the city’s existing modernistic block pattern while the other type based on the new urbanism block delineation concept. Both global and local integration values of the two different proposed urban block delineations are calculated and inspected in detailed cross examinations. Such a comparison between modernistic and new urbanism block delineations uncovers their characteristics as well as relative pros and cons. The result not only gives urban researchers, planners, and policy-makers more insights into the nature and implication of urban block delineation, but also proves that space syntax is indeed an effective planning support tool in assisting informed decision making. |
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