Rural settlement spatial patterns and effects: Road traffic accessibility and geographic factors in Guangdong Province, China

Yang, Ren; Xu, Qian; Xu, Xuanfang; Chen, Yanchun

doi:10.1007/s11442-019-1593-2

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“…Existing studies explored the spatiotemporal changes and driving forces of rural settlements. Changes in the natural environment (Zhou et al, 2013), urbanization (Irwin and Bockstael, 2002;Tan and Li, 2013), housing construction (Bański and Wesołowska, 2010;Peng et al, 2013), social transformation (Kiss, 2000), and road traffic accessibility (Yang et al, 2019) have all been identified as the driving forces of rural settlement evolution. The scholars have tried to reveal the relationships between rural settlement change and variation of population size.…”

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Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Zhu

Kong

2020

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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Rapid urbanization has triggered large rural population floating into cities, which in turn affects rural human-land relationships. The actual human-land relationship involves the coupling level of a time point and dynamic change of a time interval. However, few studies have identified the rural human-land relationship from these two perspectives. This study combined static coupling analysis with a dynamic decoupling model to analyze the relationships between rural population and settlements from 2009 to 2018 in Jiangsu Province, China. Although the static coupling degree in Jiangsu Province was relatively high, the decoupling analysis found that the rural human-land relationship in most counties was uncoordinated. There were 11 combination types based on the coupling and decoupling relationships. The most common two types (accounting for 76.74%) were recession decoupling with high-level coupling and strong decoupling with high-level coupling. Although the majority of counties had a high-level coupling degree, an uncoordinated change in rural population and rural settlements was observed in these counties. Counties with relatively reasonable human-land relationships accounted for only 12.79% of the total. The combination features for each type were identified and differential policies were proposed for optimizing human-land relationship in rural areas. This study would contribute to our understanding of the multiple relationships between rural population and settlements involved in different patterns and processes, and expect to provide theoretical and methodological support for promoting rural revitalization and sustainable development in practice.

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Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Zhu

Kong

2020

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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“…Location conditions are one of the main influencing factors of rural development model selection and economic activity layout. There is a strong positive correlation between comprehensive location conditions and rural development strength [71]. The distance between the county and the city center represents the urban-rural relationship and the rural economic location advantage.…”

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“…Elevation, slope, climate suitability, and oasis area were selected as the four indicators of rural environmental conditions. The natural geographical environment, especially the topographical conditions, forms the basis for rural production and rural development [71]. We used elevation and slope indicators to characterize the topographical features.…”

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Differentiation of Rural Development Driven by Natural Environment and Urbanization: A Case Study of Kashgar Region, Northwest China

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With the socio-economic transformation, the recombination of regional development factors and the followed reconstruction of the rural development elements system have profoundly changed the rural landscape of the Kashgar region in Northwest China. The factors affecting the rural production and lifestyle interact with each other, shaping different types of rural development. Accordingly, basing on the main factors influencing the rural development ability and long-term development potential, the assessment indicator system of rural comprehensive development (RCD) was established to reveal the differentiation of rural development and identify the dominant factors affecting rural development. The principal component analysis method and the cluster analysis method was used to distinguish the different types. The results show that the high-level rural development areas are mainly concentrated in the center of the region, while the low-level areas are mainly distributed in the periphery, with significant spatial differentiation characteristics. We divided the rural development into three categories and 11 zones for which the basic natural conditions and external challenges are different. The categories reflect three possible results of rural development: grow, decline, and vanish, which is in the industrialization development stage. With the transformation of human society and the change of urban–rural relationship in its mode and content, the external economy, society, and changing environment has put pressures on rural areas. Therefore, according to different rural development types, it is necessary to take measures to strengthen the rural areas to cope with external environmental challenges.

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“…The increasing spatial connection of historical towns can be realized by design of public facilities and activity places, which are helpful to the SSNS and conservation of the built environment (43,44). To plan these infrastructures properly, it is necessary to classify the conservation area of the historical town into different conservation grades.…”

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Adaptive Renewal of Mountainous Historical Towns Based on the Stability of the Social Network Structure: A Case Study in Chongqing, China

Shi

Huang

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The stability of social network structure (SSNS) in historical towns is influenced by changes in built environments and demographic factors. The historical towns in China have evolved into massive rural-urban migration under the rapid urbanization over the past forty years. In this context, many of these historical towns experienced “declining built environment and disintegrating social networks,” which does not contribute to the adaptive renewal of the built environment and social networks in historical towns, as well as the psychological health of residents. This article intends to explore the adaptive renewal of the built environment and social networks of historical towns based on the SSNS. Data on “households” and “social ties” (i.e., kinship, geographic, and job relationship) among households were collected via a field survey in seven historical towns in Chongqing, China. K-core models of social network analysis (SNA) were calculated to analyze SSNS. The result shows that the social networks of historical towns with centripetal-shaped structures were more stable than historical towns with divergent-shaped structures. Moreover, spatial layout forms and functions of households might affect the stability of social networks in historical towns. Based on the results of the analysis of SSNS, strategies for adaptive renewal of the built environments and social networks were put forward in two aspects. The built environment, such as the classification of public spaces and service facilities, can be designed based on the k-core indicator for increasing the spatial connection of households in the historical towns. In addition, increased social activities in historical towns with weak SSNS may promote social connection of households, and are also helpful in boosting public health in psychological aspects.

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Rural settlement spatial patterns and effects: Road traffic accessibility and geographic factors in Guangdong Province, China

Cited by 57 publications

References 21 publications

Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Differentiation of Rural Development Driven by Natural Environment and Urbanization: A Case Study of Kashgar Region, Northwest China

Adaptive Renewal of Mountainous Historical Towns Based on the Stability of the Social Network Structure: A Case Study in Chongqing, China

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