Yu, Han. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-155). / Abstract also in Chinese; appendix C in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.v / Content --- p.vii / Figure Content --- p.ix / Table Content --- p.xiii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Rapid Transformation of urban fabric in China --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Dilemma in conservation studies and practices --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Definition --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Research Questions --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Research Methods --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Study area --- p.11 / Chapter 1.2.4 --- Objectives and significances --- p.12 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review and Methodology --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1 --- Space syntax theory --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Foundations of syntactical model --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Network and movements --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Part-whole relationships --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Syntactical studies of urban evolution process --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2 --- Space Syntax Implementations --- p.28 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Basic parameters --- p.28 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Secondary parameters --- p.32 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Implementation in Depthmap --- p.34 / Chapter 2.3 --- Research methodology --- p.38 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Analysis and Results --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1 --- Background --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Overview of urban development of Foshan --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Limitations of previous studies --- p.53 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Analysis framework --- p.56 / Chapter 3.2 --- Data preparation --- p.58 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Historical maps --- p.58 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Three periods --- p.59 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Historic attributes --- p.63 / Chapter 3.3 --- Syntactical models --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Generating axial lines --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Boundary considerations --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Space syntax parameters --- p.69 / Chapter 3.4 --- Syntactical transformation of the whole street network --- p.70 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Global integration --- p.70 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Global choice --- p.76 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Relations to functional distribution --- p.79 / Chapter 3.4.4 --- Findings --- p.84 / Chapter 3.5 --- Transformation of district-city relationships --- p.85 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Overview of ´بdistrict´ة in different years --- p.86 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- ´بDistrict´ة and ´بradius´ة --- p.91 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Syntactical characteristics of districts --- p.99 / Chapter 3.5.4 --- Findings --- p.106 / Chapter 3.6 --- Transformation of place-city relationships --- p.107 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- Overview of ´بhistorical places´ة in different years --- p.108 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- Syntactical characteristics of places in 1923 --- p.114 / Chapter 3.6.3 --- Syntactical transformation of heritages --- p.117 / Chapter 3.6.4 --- Findings --- p.122 / Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.123 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.125 / Chapter 4.1 --- Conservation discussions --- p.125 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Suggestions to urban planning of historic core --- p.125 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Suggestions to urban design of historic districts --- p.129 / Chapter 4.2 --- Conclusions --- p.131 / Chapter 4.3 --- Research limitations --- p.132 / Chapter 4.4 --- Future works --- p.133 / Appendix --- p.135 / Chapter A: --- Events of Foshan in the history --- p.135 / Chapter B: --- Glossary of space syntax --- p.137 / Chapter C: --- Glossary of Foshan --- p.139 / Chapter D: --- Syntactical results of respective districts --- p.142 / Chapter E: --- Syntactical results of individual heritages --- p.144 / Bibliography --- p.148