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• TITLE: The Analysis of Pingyao Ancient Town Street Spaces and View Spots Reachability by Space Syntax

  AUTHORS: Dengfei Li, Xianchun Yan, Yan Yu

  KEYWORDS: Pingyao Ancient Town, Space Syntax, Reachability, Street Space

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Data Analysis and Information Processing, Vol.4 No.4, November 24, 2016

  ABSTRACT: The Pingyao ancient town is one of the four largest ancient cities in China. This study analyzes street spaces characteristic and view spots reachability of the Pingyao ancient town using space syntax. Then, it is concluded that the integration and reachability of street spaces are relatively higher in the northern ancient town; the accessibility among street spaces is relatively higher in the northeastern ancient town; and most of the ancient town street spaces are very open. Furthermore, the reachability of 14 view spots and their 4 corresponding street spaces is relatively higher in the 20 view spots and their 9 corresponding street spaces. Finally, some suggestions are presented to the tourism development of Pingyao ancient town based on the above conclusions.