| Author | Liu, Bomin |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. HS-88-20 |
| Subject(s) | City planning--China--Nanjing
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| Note | A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. HS-88-20 |
| Abstract | A commercial center network is a major system of a city and
its basic function is to take care of certain services for
settlements within the operational radius of the city. As
important as the city road system, building up a sound city
commercial center system is advantageous to the improvement of
the people's living conditions and favourable to the city's
future development. Recently in most Chinese cities, the problems
of city centers have become more and more serious which has made
many local governments and planners urgently launch urban center
renewal plans which, however, are often unsatisfactory as they
generally lack a wider perspective. With the same purposes as the
urban center renewal plans, this study aims at finding out the
real relation between the people's shopping behaviour and the
existing commercial center system. The results show that the
rapid growth of the city primary center largely creates severe
pressure on the city centers. Therefore, controlling the rapid
expansion of the city center should be combined with commercial
decentralization as an efficient and possible way for future
commercial development.
To achieve the overall the objective, firstly, a comparative
study is conducted to explore the specific attractiveness of the
city primary center and a secondary center. Secondly, with the
help of the micro computer, a synthetical commercial center index
was derived from a principal component analysis of the six real
indexes the twenty-nine commercial centers. Finally, a quantitativ accessibility approach the people's visits to
shopping center. This is then expanded to simulate various
options for future commercial center development. Based on the
analysis, suggestion for a polycentric commercial pattern are
made. |
| Year | 1988 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. HS-88-20 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Human Settlement (HS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Kammeier, Hans Detlef |
| Examination Committee(s) | Demaine, Harvey ;Nishimura, Yukio ; Weber, Karl E. |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Canadian International Development
Agency; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1988 |