Identification of Traditional Village Aggregation Areas from the Perspective of Historic Layering: Evidence from Hilly Regions in Zhejiang Province, China

Mingyu Zhang, Chenying Shen, Weicheng Gu and Qiuxiao Chen ()
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Mingyu Zhang: The Department of Regional and Urban Planning, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd., Hangzhou 310058, China
Chenying Shen: The Department of Regional and Urban Planning, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd., Hangzhou 310058, China
Weicheng Gu: The Department of Regional and Urban Planning, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd., Hangzhou 310058, China
Qiuxiao Chen: School of Spatial Planning and Design, Hangzhou City University, 51 Huzhou Rd., Hangzhou 310015, China

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-19

Abstract: The conservation of traditional village clusters, especially those within traditional village aggregation areas, is an important part of historical cultural landscape preservation. With the hilly regions of Zhejiang province as the study area, this study innovatively proposed a traditional village aggregation area identification method from the perspective of historical layering. Because the influence of social economics on the spatial development of villages would gradually lead to spatially geographical features in the village evolution process, this study evaluated eight spatial characteristic indicators from natural geography, socioeconomics, and historical culture to identify ordinary traditional villages based on the threshold value extracted from protective traditional villages. In order to avoid the spatial identification deviation caused by only taking protective traditional villages as samples, we chose them together with ordinary traditional villages to identify 14 traditional village aggregation areas, which were categorized into four types based on regional protection conditions and development potential. This study expands the perspective for understanding the formation of the traditional villages’ spatial characteristics and provides development guidance for traditional village aggregation areas in hilly regions of Zhejiang province.

Keywords: traditional village; cultural landscape; spatial aggregation; historic layering; influence factor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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