An Enhancement Strategy for Macau’s Largos from a Syntactic Perspective

Abstract

This paper takes the “Largos” of the Macau Peninsula as the object of study. By applying historical combing and field research, the main functions of Largos are categorized as follows: serving the community, facilitating traffic and promoting religious culture. The paper applied a spatial syntactic theory to establish a model, and three syntactic parameters were used, synergy, integration and choice, to interpret the results of the analysis. Based on the results of the syntactic parameters of Largos, results are divided into four categories. From this, the spaces that require improvements are selected, and corresponding improvement strategies are proposed. Taking Macau’s Largos as an example, this paper aimed to apply a space syntax to analyze the Largos in Macau so as to play a reference role in the effective renewal of urban micro-spaces and small public spaces.