Comparative study of road configuration and geographical location advantages between urban districts of Shanghai based on GIS and space syntax

Author

Liu Shaotang ; Fan Wenping ; Zhang Xuewu ; Liu Lifang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Henan Inst. of Eng., Zhengzhou, China

Volume

4

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 June 2010

Abstract

The combination of space syntax and GIS plays an important role in the analysis of some urban problems. This paper put forward such a new quantitative method and take Shanghai urban area as the study case. It explored the characteristic of road configuration in every urban district and the geographical location advantages reflected were wholly compared in Shanghai. Road structure of 9 urban districts is classified into three statuses: districts with high intelligibility, districts with medium intelligibility and districts with low intelligibility. Finally, several strategies were brought forward for every kind of urban district.

Keywords

geographic information systems; roads; town and country planning; GIS; Shanghai; geographical location advantages; road configuration; road structure; space syntax; urban districts; Cities and towns; Civil engineering; Computational modeling; Computer science; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Geographic Information Systems; Morphology; Roads; Space technology; Road configuration; geographical information system; geographical location advantage; space syntax;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design and Applications (ICCDA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qinhuangdao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7164-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7164-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCDA.2010.5541435

Filename

5541435