Study on Identification of Rural Settlement Heritage Aggregation Areas in China and Its Spatial Pattern
Chinese people have created a long-lasting civilization.Rural settlement heritage constitutes an important part of the national historical and cultural protection and inheritance system.Due to the lack of systematic excavation,identification,analysis,and research of China's rural settlement heritage aggregation areas,the current protection and inheritance of rural heritage lack systematic organization,threatening the integrity of the historical and cultural protection and inheritance system.This study upholds the academic ideology of the science of human settlements,takes sub-watershed as the basic spatial unit,takes the spatial distribution of 8 types of rural human settlement heritage elements as the basic data,and integrates weighted map overlay and spatial autocorrelation,to identify 436,400 square kilometers of rural human settlement heritage aggregation areas in China.A spatial pattern of protection and inheritance of rural human settlement heritage in China is constructed,which consists of 20 aggregation areas,48 aggregation subareas,and 140 enrichment units.This study provides basic and comprehensive spatial data for building a new pattern of urban and rural historical and cultural protection and inheritance system in key areas,and provides multi-level and systematic spatial ideas for the future protection and development of China's rural human settlement heritage.
ruralhuman settlement heritagehuman settlementwatershed unitaggregation areas