TITLE:
Spatial Changes of Landscape and Urban Planning for the Ethnic Settlements under the Background of Urbanization
AUTHORS:
Zhe-Feng Lin, Jin-Yao Yang
KEYWORDS:
Ethnic Townships, Urbanization, Landscape Pattern, Driving Force
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.9 No.3,
August
16,
2021
ABSTRACT: With the stable development of new countryside construction, the changing
of the landscape pattern in the Chinese countryside attracts more attention,
especially in the ethnic townships which are hardly accessible. To explore the
development of ethnic areas, it is crucial to understand the spatial and
temporal variation of the landscape pattern. In this study, the landscape
pattern change was analyzed at both patch type level and landscape level. The
land use data (format: vector) got from Aerla Town (a typical Daur ethnic
township in Inner Mongolia) for the duration from 2008 to 2013 was analyzed by
ArcGIS platform and Fragstats. For the patch level, the grassland, farmland,
and forestland turned into construction land gradually. Regarding the landscape
level, the landscape diversity index and landscape connectivity index were
relatively low, the heterogeneity index and the landscape fragmentation were relatively high, and the landscape fragmentation index was increasing.
Then with considering the social and economic development in Aerla Town, the
Pearson correlation analysis and grey correlation method are used to get the
main driving force of landscape change. The results indicated that population
changes and GDP growth were the main driving forces of landscape pattern
change. Finally, the driving forces which resulted in the variation of
landscape pattern incorporating the economic, cultural, policy, and natural
effects were discussed. The research could provide basic information and a
theoretical foundation for the development of minority areas in Northeast
China.