Spatial pattern classification of agricultural-production rural settlements in hanzhong area

摘要

Research on agricultural-production rural settlements is not only conducive to the proper planning of agriculture production land and rural residential areas, but also shows the relationship among forms of settlement, environment, and agricultural production. This study considered Hanzhong area as the sample case and applied human ecological theory to investigate the spatial patterns of agricultural-production rural settlements. The factor analysis approach was adopted to compare the factors of natural geography, economy of agricultural production, human history, ecology, and so on. The spatial patterns of agricultural-production rural settlements in Hanzhong area were classified into six basic types, namely, net-shaped, vein-shaped, branch-shaped, string-shaped, belt-shaped, and spot-shaped settlements. These types provide a standard of division for the planning and design of the protection of the ecological environment, agriculture production land, agricultural production residential areas, and newcomer resettlement in rural settlements to preserve the characteristics of agricultural production rural settlement of different types and to protect the holistic, harmonious, steady, and sustainable development of rural settlements in an ecological system.