Construction of Urban Spatial Pattern in Underdeveloped Mountainous Counties: Taking Shanyang County as an Example

摘要

Qinba Mountain Area belongs to one of the 14 contiguous poverty-stricken areas in China. Taking Shanyang County as an example, this paper combs the evolution mechanism of the spatial structure of urban settlements in the county and finds that it is moving from single-center structure to point-axis space structure. Furthermore, the dominant factors of this evolution are analyzed, including traffic conditions, government policies, and resource and environmental carrying capacity. Finally, the future spatial development trend of Shanyang County is predicted to be a new dual-core structure, and corresponding policy recommendations are proposed.