Author(s)

Chen Hong, Yulu Ya, Tinghua Hu, Xiaoqing Hu, Xianmin Mai^*

Southwest MinZu University, Chengdu, China.

Small towns are a transitional existence between traditional villages and modern cities, and an important buffer for reconciling urban-rural binary contradictions. At present, China has entered a period of rapid urbanization. The state has introduced a series of policies such as urban-rural integration, urban-rural integration, and new rural construction to promote the development of small towns. This study selected Xuecheng Town, Li County, Aba Prefecture as the research object, and used space syntax to do research on spatial logic. At the same time, combined with the actual public space conditions of river valley-type small towns, the paper puts forward some planning suggestions for optimizing the layout of public space and public facilities in small valley towns, and provides theories and methods for its improvement, so that the planning resources input in western Sichuan can be effectively utilized.

Spatial Syntax, Spatial Logic, Small Valley Town, Street Vitality

Hong, C. , Ya, Y. , Hu, T. , Hu, X. and Mai, X. (2019) Research of Small Valley Towns Based on Spatial Syntax Taking Xuecheng as an Example. Current Urban Studies, 7, 449-458. doi: 10.4236/cus.2019.73022.