Differentiation Characteristics of Mountain Village Courtyard Landscape and Its Improvement Strategies from the Perspective of Settlement Renewal:A Case Study of Changning County,China
The layout or organization of landscape features take a significant role in expressing perception and aesthetic values to a rural village.The view of mountain village courtyard constitutes a fundamental unit and virtual representation of rural landscapes.Unfortunately,earlier research didn't quantitatively conduct evaluation on rural landscape elements on a household scale,partly as a result of unavailability in methodology or deficiency in data.In this study,it created an assessment framework from a perspective of settlement renewal,which took rural village courtyard as an unit of measurement to weigh landscape features by geographic detectors.It found several points.(1)Landscapes of rural household-yard were governed by terrains in villages,with a differentialized formation.Each landscape of household-yard was matrix for creating the differentiation of villages on a village scale.Landscape differentiation of household-yards in settlements clusters in a village was lower than those of villages.(2)Different evaluation scales led to varied contribution levels of household-yard landscape,where landscapes in the vicinity received the lowest score.This was primarily because individual farmers had little attention to planning of landscape in coordination with residential circumstances during the building of own courtyard.(3)The primary factors which determined landscape differentiations of household-yards in rural villages were their topography,transportation,and livelihood.In the case of settlement aggregation,it were to effectively increase the influence of dominant household-yard landscapes and integrate with other individual landscape in accordance with settlement landscape.(4)Modernization of courtyard landscapes was a trend in the process of rural transformation and settlement renewal;however,there was a lack of unified and multi-scale courtyard design,which resulted in poor landscape consistency in a village or rural settlements on various scales;in this regards,this research proposed an approach to improving courtyard landscapes in mountain villages.This study offers fresh perspectives for rural settlement revitalization and improvement of the aesthetic value of landscapes.Additionally,it offers guidance on how to create village plans and designs for rural development and transformation,suitable rural courtyard layouts,and landscape optimization.
mountain village courtyardlandscape evaluationhuman settlement environmentgeographical transitionsettlement renewal