标题: Identifying Restructuring Types of Rural Settlement Using Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of Ezhou City in Hubei Province of China

作者: Yue, QB (Yue Qiaobing); He, JH (He Jianhua); Liu, DAF (Liu Dianfeng)

来源出版物: CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE卷: 31期: 6页: 1011-1028 DOI: 10.1007/s11769-021-1236-2出版年: DEC 2021

as become one of the key factors affecting the spatial reconstruction of rural settlements (SRRS). However, most studies ignored the multi-scale impact of social networks on the identification of restructuring types of rural settlements. This paper, taking Ezhou City of Hubei Province, China as the case study area, developed a potential inter-settlement network through considering settlements as nodes, and inter-settlement interactions induced by the spatial disparity of public facilities as edges, divided towns in Ezhou City into three zones based on community structure at the town level, and then identified four types of rural settlements in light of the characteristics of cluster patterns and centrality at the patch level. The results show that the inter-settlement network in Ezhou City presents apparent disparities in terms of community structure, cluster patterns and centrality. In community analysis, high inter-community and intra-community interactions are concentrated in well-developed areas in the north and east, while weak interactions between communities occur in the southern areas dominated by traditional agricultural production. Accordingly, three zones are divided such as the urban-leading zone, urban-rural integration zone and rural-leading zone. For the network centrality and cluster patterns, high-level rural settlements are mainly distributed in the urban-leading zone, followed by the urban-rural integration zone and the rural-leading zone. Moreover, the lump cluster pattern is observed in each zone, but the chain pattern and dispersed pattern largely occur in the rural-leading zone. At same time, four types of rural settlements are identified, namely urbanized settlements, central settlements, grassroots settlements and relocated settlements. The corresponding plans are discussed in different zones regarding urbanization, integration and characteristics to provide meaningful insights for policymakers to guide SRRS. This study would contribute to our understanding of the impact of social network involved in daily life on rural settlement reconstruction, and expect to provide theoretical and methodological support for rural sustainable development in practice.

作者关键词: rural settlement reconstruction; public service facility; inter-settlement network; spatial differences; zonal division

地址: [Yue Qiaobing; He Jianhua; Liu Dianfeng] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

[Yue Qiaobing; He Jianhua; Liu Dianfeng] Minist Educ, Key Lab Geog Informat Syst, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

通讯作者地址: He, JH (通讯作者)，Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

He, JH (通讯作者)，Minist Educ, Key Lab Geog Informat Syst, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

电子邮件地址:hjianh@whu.edu.cn

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