Study on the Spatial Layout Features of Linpan in Western Sichuan with the Aid of GIS: A Case Study in Deyuan Town
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Study on the Spatial Layout Features of Linpan in Western Sichuan with the Aid of GIS: A Case Study in Deyuan Town Ajun Wan1 · Hongling Chen1 · Xinjue Xie1 · Yixuan Liu1
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Abstract This paper principally focuses on the spatial layout features of Linpan in Deyuan Town of Chengdu City in China. The spatial shape analysis and spatial fractal analysis in studied areas was carried out by using analysis methods of Fractal Analysis, Zonal Geometry as Table, Field Calculator. The results demonstrated that densely shaped Linpan (resembling square or circle type) with starlike scattered distribution, and loosely shaped Linpan (slender type) distributed along roads or water strips, both of which are concentrated along water systems or roads and stay away from major exterior roads. It is found that Linpan in the studied area is in the state of random motion similar to the Brownian motion. The spatial pattern of the residential patch is complex and in the most unstable state. Quantitative research on the spatial layout features of Linpan is conducive to strengthening the scientific and rational understanding of Linpan. The research findings could be used as the scientific foundation for guiding the selection of rural centers, surrounding village construction, township land planning and remediation. Keywords Linpan in Western Sichuan · Layout features · Quantitative analysis · GIS technology
1 Introduction Linpan originated from the ancient Shu civilization of China. It is a typical rural settlement form and unique pastoral landscape with traditional Shu area features widely distributed in the Chengdu Plain [1]. Linpan is usually a scattered layout with a clan relationship as a basis for settlement. The small Linpan has only a few households and dozens of households * Ajun Wan [email protected] Hongling Chen [email protected] Xinjue Xie [email protected] Yixuan Liu [email protected] 1
Institute of New Rural Development, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
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Business School, The Chinese university of Hong Kong, Sha Tin District 999077, Hong Kong
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and the large Linpan can have hundreds of households. It will eventually constitute a natural settlement with forest, water, house, and field. At present, there are about 140,000 existing Linpan settlements in rural areas of Chengdu City, with a population of more than 4 million. These settlements with the fields as base are surrounded by arbors, bamboos and farmhouses to form a nearly circular closed or semi-enclosed space. Farmyard are covered in the forest landscape and inhabits alongside the river system. The organic integration of human and nature forms a typical Linpan settlement in the vast rural areas of Chengdu Plain and becomes an integral part of the human settlement system in Chengdu Plain [2]. At present, the academic research on Linpan is more focused on the qualitative or macroscopic description of landscape value, formation and evolution,
