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ShouyiLin JianhuaXu
The Research Center for East-West Cooperation in China, The Research Center for East-West Cooperation in China,
East China Normal University, 200062 East China Normal University, 200062
Shanghai, People's Republic of China Shanghai, People's Republic of China
linshouyi86@ 163.com jhxu@ geo.ecnu.edu.cn
1A bstract
- Space syntax theory has been applied to urban impact to the study area. Today, the functional area
research in many aspects, but many remain a simple construction has been basically completed. The specific
understanding of the city morphology, lacking in-depth relationship among urban spatial structure, road network and
analysis of syntactic parameters. Using Space syntax theory, land use type need to be studied and analyzed from the
Geographic information system (GIS) technology and Geo actuality. Many studies have shown that the space syntax
statistical methods, this paper deeply analyzed the s patial theory contributes to the understanding of urban space and
morphology of Lujiazui functional area, and explained the
the interpretation of simulation, will help in-depth
relationship among road network, people flow and land use
understanding of the nature and functions of urban space [2,
type. Major findings are as follows: In Lujiazui functional
3, 4]. At present space syntax as a tool for understanding
area, with Century Avenue as the principal axis, the area of
spatial structure is applied to many aspects of urban
high global integration roads is wide and its distribution
research, including road network analysis [13,15,17], traffic
presents a multi-polar development model. In the Finance and
Trade Zone, a unipolar development mode was presented, the
flow [16], land grading [7], urban spatial morphology
global integration value is low, and viewpoint movement is
[5,11,12], geometric accessibility [8,9] and some other fields
particularly important for spatial cognition. Nearly 85 % of the
[10,14], but most are lack of a great insight into the syntactic
road accessibility is good, so the transmission of people, parameters. This paper tried to use the space syntax theory
logistics and information flow is convenient; the entire road and GIS technology to quantitatively analyze the Lujiazui
network is conducive to the coordinated development of urban spatial pattern, and attempted to get a comprehensive
commercial, residential, education, industry and other land understanding of the relationship among urban road
use types, and there is still room for imp rovement. network, pedestrian flow and land use type through in-depth
analysis of syntactic parameters.
Keywords- space syntax; urban spatial morphology; road
network; land use type II. MATERIALS AND METHODS
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Study Area Overview
Lujiazui Functional Area, founded in October 2004, is
The road is the first element and the ontological factor of
located in northwest of the Pudong New Zone in Shanghai
urban spatial morphology. Urban road network is not always
of China. The scope of the study is the whole Lujiazui
passive, which restricts the spatial distribution of land use
functional area, east to Luo Shan Road, south to the
type and guides the evolution of urban spatial pattern [1]. In
Longyang Road, west and north to the Huangpu River. The
Lujiazui functional area, the traffic network is subjected to
functional area includes five parts, which are Meiyuan
the impact of the planning ideology and urban land use
Street, Weifang Street, Tangqiao Street, Yangjing Street and
conditions, and is the result of the original road structure
a part of Huamu town, has an area of about 31km2• As the
reorganization and transformation. The urban spatial
core zone of the finance, trade and administrative office, the
morphology of this area is the appearance of planning idea.
number of office buildings, building concentration level and
Historical change and evolution of urban space are in less
the economy development are all the greatest in Shanghai.
Lujiazui functional area, which plays an important role in
the development of Pudong New Area, is the ties of Pudong
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view, the distribution of high integration roads is reasonable morphology of the Financial and Trade Zone is more
in the study area for that its coverage is nearly the whole readable. The Financial and Trade Zone as a Business
functional space. From the position of the high integration oriented area, most people come here for sightseeing and
roads point of view, Century Avenue plays a special role, shopping. The road network with high R2 is great useful for
which directly connects with other high integration lines. It people to get different visual taste in the area where the
means that the area along Century Avenue not only is the space is split by discrete buildings.
hub of human activity, but also has tremendous appeal for
other districts far away. The study found that the areas with TABLE I. STATISTICS OF SYNTACTIC PARAMETERS ON TWO
low integration roads are the Finance and Trade Zone and SCALES
the south of Tangqiao Street, Huamu town, indicating the Axis
LInteg Glnteg R2
overalI space reachability is relatively low in these regions. Num
The irregular blocks and the high bending degree of roads The Finance and Trade
38 2.85 1.56 0.85
are the main reasons for the low space accessibility of Zone
The whole Functional
Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone. There are two reasons for 184 2.78 1.65 0.73
Area
the low global integration of Tangqiao Street and Huamu
town. On the one hand, the existence of Century Park makes
B. Statistical analysis base on syntactic parameters
a large area blank existing in the traffic network. On the
other hand, many roads in this area, which are bending or The writer tried to analyze the deep relationship of the
ring, are not connected with the high integration roads. different integration roads through geo-statistical methods.
As the global integration is the most effective parameter to
reflect the accessibility of urban space, it was selected to
make further research.
Bias coefficient and kurtosis coefficient are two
important parameters in describing the distribution
characteristics of geographic data. The former depicts a
mean-centric bias, and Kurtosis coefficient shows the
concentration of geographic data near the mean value.
Statistical results are shown in Fig.2 and Fig.3. The bias
coefficient in the Financial and Trade Zone is 1.14, which is
greater than that of the whole region, ilIustrating that the
mean value is on the right side of the peak on the two scales,
and the deviation in the Financial and Trade Zone is greater.
Kurtosis coefficient reflects the concentration of geographic
data is somewhat higher in the Financial and Trade Zone. By
contrast, in the Finance and Trade Zone, there are a lot of
low integration roads and the integration is concentrated in a
smalI range.
35
-1.22-1.53
-1.53 1.83
Bias coefficient: O. 52
-1.83-2.21
Kunosis cocrficicnl: O. 54
30
-2.24-2.82
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hinterland of high integration roads cover all types of land,
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and residents traveling is convenient. The whole study area
Bias coefficient: 2. 01 is connected tightly with the Financial Center and Century
Kurtosis coefficient: 1. 14
Park by some high integration roads.
Educational infrastructure sites spread throughout the
region, mixing with residential land. It is easy to arrive these
places through the secondary trunk roads or the nearest
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streets whose integration maybe high or not. The trend that
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industrial land distributes along the river is clear. This land
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rt use type mainly depends on the transport capacity of the
Huangpu River, and the road accessibility is relatively
weaker than other regions. Specific distribution was shown
in Fig.4. In the south of functional area, the road
accessibility is poor; there are a lot residential land and more
vacant land. Rational utilization of the vacant land, balance
development of land use type, and coordinative relations of
road network and land will be the focal point of the
development in the region.
Ginteg
• • ster
Industry
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distributions, unipolar trend is clear. The results indicate that
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in the Financial and Trade Zone, the accessibility of a large -2.21 2.82
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number of roads is poor, and viewpoint movement is
Figure 4. Congruent map of axial lines and land use types
particularly important for the spatial awareness.
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