| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 不動產與城鄉環境學系 === 103 === According to the theory of centers, network theory, and space syntax, spatial structures would influence the human beings’ activities. In this context, researchers can understand a complex or large scale space by analyzing the underlying structure of space, and can use the underlying structure to simulate or predict human beings’ activities within the space. The central concept of the theory of centers and network theory is that a whole spatial structure contains various centers. A center (node) is the essential element or unit in the spatial structure, and each center interact with one another to develop a complex and living structure. Each center contains heterogeneity or variety that depends on the combinations comprising the overall configuration. This kind of configuration or structure also refers to scaling hierarchy, which there are from more small centers than the large centers. Accordingly, a spatial structure involves various centers that hold its heterogeneity and scale. In other words, every center plays a diverse role or contains a different centrality within the whole spatial structure. Human social network as an example, a human being refers to the basic unit within the social network. All of the people interact with one another and build up a complex social network. Within the network, every person contains the own centrality to the network. In this regard, the theory of centers, network theory, and space syntax all emphasize the interactions between spatial units. Based these interactions, researchers can define the many centrality indices or the indices of space syntax to analyze the heterogeneity of spatial characteristic.
In this context, this research applies these theories to analyze the internal spatial allocation of shopping centers. The development of the shopping center would influence the social activities or economic activities of a city or a country. For a human being, shopping centers apply a place that satisfy people’s multiple purpose, which includes shopping space, entertainment events, and social actives. This kind of shopping pattern or shopping experience would have a positive impact on human beings’ physical and psychological well-being. In the development of shopping centers, the internal spatial allocation would directly influence its attractions, retail image, and the overall profits. However, in the past, the spatial allocation of shopping centers often relies on the interviews or rules of thumb and lacks a set of spatial measurement indices. In this regard, this research establishes a set of spatial measurement indices to find out the spatial heterogeneity of different types of tenants. Moreover, this research bases on the results of measurements and the geometric spatial characteristics and offers a set of suggestions for the internal spatial allocation of shopping centers.
According to the spatial measurement indices and the geometric spatial characters of shopping centers, the findings of this research state as follows. The central place of shopping centers could place impulse tenants, comparative tenants, and core tenants. Especially, impulse tenants and core tenants may place in the most central place of shopping centers. The peripheral place (near entrances) of shopping centers could allocate planned tenants (especially restaurants and food courts), convenience tenants, cluster service tenants (especially retail services and financial services), and leisure tenants. The peripheral place (near cul-de-sacs) of shopping centers could place peripheral tenants, especially department stores. This research verifies that researchers can apply spatial measurement indices, the attributes (types of tenants) of shopping centers, and the geometric spatial characteristics to offer a set of internal spatial allocation strategy to shopping centers.
|
|---|
