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Study on the Spatial Structure of Large Scale Retail Stores Based on Space Syntax: Case Study in Wuhan
Jingnan, Zhou (2009) Study on the Spatial Structure of Large Scale Retail Stores Based on Space Syntax: Case Study in Wuhan.
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| Abstract: | Large-scale retail stores are closely related to the daily life of citizens and constitute the core of the urban commercial space. In contemporary China, the urban retail is developing fast, however, the theoretical basis and technical approach for formulating the urban spatial planning which involve the retail space doesn’t keep up the pace correspondingly. In China’s urban planning practice, urban retail facilities are planned roughly based on various levels of service radius and the never changed per capita indicators. Lacking of valid methods for more accurate spatial allocation has been an obstacle in urban planning. Scientific methods on spatial research and systematic evaluation of retail inner developing mechanism will be greatly helpful to retail spatial development. This research aims to analyse the spatial pattern of large-scale stores based on space syntax theory and to explore the correlativity between variations in syntax accessibility and the spatial pattern of large-scale stores. The followings are the main conclusions of the research: (1) This research develops a framework of spatial topology analysis based on the space syntax theory, which including following innovations: the trail to break the traditional long axial line network; the trail to analyse the bus route network; By taking both the syntax accessibility of road and bus network into consideration, gives the scopes of urban syntax centres of city level, local level and sub local level respectively. (2) In the analysis of the retail distribution pattern, the city level, local level and sub local level urban retail centres are proposed respectively according to the spatial distributions of the quantity and scale of the retail stores. The spatial distribution pattern of each retail format is also discussed. (3) The correlativity analysis found that, there are spatial correlations between the retail locations and the urban space syntax centres. The space syntax is a useful tool to explain the allocation logic of urban retail space and it is more reasonable to apply the partitioned transportation network instead of the traditional long axial line network. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93067 |
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