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Comparative Spatial Vitality Evaluation of Traditional Settlements Based on SUF: Taking Anren Ancient Town’s Urban Design as an Example

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  • Jinliu Chen

    (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
    Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China)

  • Haoqi Wang

    (School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China)

  • Zhuo Yang

    (School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK)

  • Pengcheng Li

    (School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China)

  • Geng Ma

    (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
    Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China
    School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550000, China)

  • Xiaoxin Zhao

    (School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China)

Abstract

Sustainable urban forms (SUF) guide spatial creation, significantly revitalise the development of traditional settlements, and are an essential theoretical support for urban design. At the same time, the emergence of quantitative spatial analysis technology further promotes the visualised evaluation of the performance of spatial vitality in urban design. However, current research rarely studies the spatial vitality of traditional settlements with quantitative spatial analysis from the SUF perspective. Therefore, this research takes Anren Ancient Town in Chengdu, Western China, as an example to propose a design based on sustainable urban form theory to raise local spatial vitality. Then, it introduces the vitality evaluation system based on the urban form index (UFI) with three measurement methods: Space Syntax, Spacemate, and MXI, and conducts a comparative spatial vitality evaluation of Anren Ancient Town’s status quo to explain the process of how the design scheme came about. The results found that urban design proposals based on the principles of compactness, mixed land use and diversity in SUF design guidelines can effectively improve the vitality of traditional settlements. The high vitality of an urban settlement could be achieved by combining SUF-based design guidelines and UFI-based evaluation systems. The spatial vitality evaluation system based on the SUF could assist and optimise decision-making in design and act as a paradigm for urban design or urban regeneration in traditional towns.

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  • Jinliu Chen & Haoqi Wang & Zhuo Yang & Pengcheng Li & Geng Ma & Xiaoxin Zhao, 2023. "Comparative Spatial Vitality Evaluation of Traditional Settlements Based on SUF: Taking Anren Ancient Town’s Urban Design as an Example," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-20, May.
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