Regional Adaptability Research On Rural Planning In The Hilly Areas Of Hunan Province

The acceleration of China’s urbanization has promoted the development of rural economy,yet it has broken the rural spatial pattern of work-life-ecology in the past,which has brought tremendous challenges to the sustainable development in the countryside.In recent years,the introduction of relevant documents and the formulation of policies at both national and provincial levels(Hunan Province)have provided a sound external environment and development momentum for the rural development in the hilly areas of Hunan Province and the overall appearance of the countryside has been improved to some extent.However,rural development of this area is still in faced with many problems such as the duality of urban and rural development,excessive encroachment to natural ecological space,the increasing disappearance of regional spatial characteristics,the difficulty in inheriting rural culture,as well as the lagging-behind of the planning and designing methods.Therefore,it is imperative to conduct regional adaptability research on rural planning.Be it the land reform at the beginning of the fo unding of the People’s Republic of China,or the rural revitalization strategy that is fully implemented nowadays,rural construction has always been one of the key issues in the national economic development.At this stage in particular,emphasis on the equality of urban and rural status,the interaction among urban and rural factors,as well as the integration of urban and rural space,marks that the rural development has entered into a critical period.Accordingly,based on current problems of rural development and construction during the transitional period,adopting multi-disciplinary and cross-integration research methods,with the typical villages in the hilly areas of Hunan as the research sample,this research deeply analyzes its boundary and internal morphol ogical characteristics,layout patterns,and spatial forms to strive for the exploration and summary of the research status,theoretical context,and the planning and designing methods of rural adaptability in the hilly areas of Hunan.The framework of this th esis is composed of four parts with eight chapters.From the First to the Third Chapter,the First Part is status quo research.In the First Chapter of Introduction,the research content,methods and framework is proposed based on the elaborations on the origin,purpose and significance of the research,as well as the summary of the status quo research both abroad and at home.The Second Chapter expounds on the main concepts and theoretical foundations,briefly describes the domestic and foreign theoretical resear ch related to rural planning.It systematically clarifies the adaptability theory from such five aspects as the basic concepts of adaptability,the ideological basis and the development of adaptability theory,the adaptation concept in traditional Chinese culture,as well as the core content of the adaptability theory in rural planning.In combination with the research needs of the thesis,relevant theories were also briefly clarified.The Third Chapter summarizes the characteristics and laws of rural historical evolution in the hilly areas of Hunan,and evaluates the rural adaptive development.Taking the socio-economic changes as the trajectory,combining historical events that have generated a significant impact on the countryside,this chapter explores the source of the rural characteristics in the time line of four different time periods,that is,the period before the founding of the new China,the period of collective economy,the period of system reform and the period of cultural renaissance.Taking advantages of the analytical hierarchy process and principal component analysis,an evaluation system for the status quo of rural adaptability development in the hilly areas of Hunan Province is established.On the basis of literature review and field investigation,and in combination of evaluation system and SPSS statistical analysis,rural adaptability development is quantitatively evaluated.The development status of the regional countryside is understood and analyzed at various levels and from all aspects.From the Fourth to the Seventh Chapter,the Second Part is theoretical analysis and research.The Fourth Chapter explores and analyzes the adaptability characteristics of rural boundary and internal forms to the terrain in the hilly areas of Hunan Province.With the help of mathematical analysis methods,it quantitatively analyzes the typical rural cases from six aspects :aspect ratio,form index,border density,edge width,building density,and plaque fractal dimension in public space,so as to further summarize the adaptabilit y characteristics of rural boundary and internal forms to the terrain.The Fifth Chapter summarizes the adaptability types and modes of the rural layout forms to the climate in the hilly areas of Hunan Province.It draws on the graphical language,and summarizes the adaptive modes of the rural layout and orientation,wind and rainfall environment.It also analyzes the orientation,wind and rainfall environment of Gantang Village and Lanxi Village with software analysis of GIS and ANSYA to further verify the ad aptability of the countryside to the climate.The Sixth Chapter studies the adaptability characteristics of rural spatial forms to the culture in the hilly areas of Hunan Province.It uses spatial syntax theory and analysis methods to quantitatively analyz e the morphological characteristics of material space at two levels of village and public space;and of non-material space at three levels of space field,social structure and social activities to further summarize the adaptive characteristics to rural relig ious culture and religious culture.The seventh chapter studies the generation mechanism and path of rural planning adaptability in hilly areas of Hunan Province.It summarizes the adaptability generation mechanism of rural planning from four aspects :evaluation mechanism,internal-push mechanism,external-pull mechanism,and differentiation mechanism.It elaborates on the regional adaptability content of rural planning,summarizes the core problems of rural planning adaptability,proposes and interprets the regional adaptability modes.According to the core problems faced by rural development,it attempts to propose a regional adaptability path for rural planning.As the Eighth Chapter,the Third Part is research on design methods and strategies.On the basis of the aforementioned research content,according to the adaptability problems such as the protection and inheritance of traditional villages,the quality improvement and reconnection of contemporary villages,as well as the compliance and coordination of newly-built villages,and from the three aspects of terrain,climate and culture,it proposes corresponding planning and designing methods of regional adaptability.The adaptability methods from the terrain environment includes the protection of traditional villages’ natural bases,the improvement of contemporary villages’ living environment and the response of the newly-built villages’ terrain environment.To the traditional village,the contemporary village,the newly built village,puts forward the corresponding climate environment adaptation method.The adaptability methods from the spatial context includes the protection path of traditional villages’ culture,the inheritance path of contemporary villages’ culture,and regression of newly-built villages’ culture.The Fourth Part is the Conclusion.Through the summary of the whole thesis,the main conclusions and innovation points of the research are extracted,the shortcomings,expounded,and the research direction of this subject,forecast.The main innovation points of this thesis are as follows:(1)Revealing the laws and characteristics of the rural evolution process in the hilly areas of Hunan Province,and based on the analytical hierarchy process and principal component analysis,attempting to establish an evaluation system for the status quo of rural adaptability development in the hilly areas of Hunan Province.(2)Systematically summarizing the adaptability characteristics of rural terrain,climate and culture in the hilly areas of Hunan Province from a perspective that is both qualitative and quantitative and by means of mathematical calculation method,space syntax theory and method.(3)Initially putting forward the regional adaptability mode of rural planning in the hilly areas of Hunan Province,and attempting to propose planning and designing strategies from three aspects of terrain environment,climate environment,and spatial context.