Cluster spatial identification of traditional villages under social solidarity:from the perspective of contiguous protection
Traditional villages are the important accumulation of farming civilization and the key component of rural society in our country.The start of the demonstration work of the centralized protection and utilization of traditional villages indicates that the scope of traditional village protection in our country has shifted from individual village to village group.Taking 89 traditional villages in eastern Hubei as a case study,the research constructs a social memory index system from the three dimensions of geographic,human and cultural context,measures the social relationship and spatial pattern of traditional villages based on field survey data and spatial coordinate data combined with GIS spatial analysis method,and proposes the concept and identification method of traditional village clusters and groups.The result shows that:1)Traditional villages with rich geographic,human,and cultural social solidarity are clustered in Xiaogan,Wuhan,the northern part of Huanggang,the eastern part of Xianning and the southern part of Huangshi.2)7 clusters and 2 groups are identified according to the social solidarity and spatial pattern of traditional villages.3)Based on the network density,traditional village clusters are divided into three categories including high synergy,medium synergy,and low synergy.Suggestions for classification and development are put forward.The research is of theoretical and practical significance for identifying traditional village clusters and groups,and for setting contiguous protection and utilization demonstration areas of traditional villages.
traditional villagessocial solidaritycluster,groupcontiguous protection