Study on Urban System Relationships and Resilience Promotion Strategies in Underdeveloped Mountainous Areas Based on Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture

Huayan Yuan, Jinyu Fan (), Jie Luo, Rui Ren and Hai Li
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Huayan Yuan: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Jinyu Fan: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Jie Luo: Fourth Engineering Division Guizhou Investment & Construction Co., Ltd., Guiyang 550081, China
Rui Ren: China Construction Fourth Engineering Division Corp., Ltd., Guiyang 510665, China
Hai Li: Guizhou Provincial Urban & Rural Planning Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guiyang 510665, China

Land, 2025, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-34

Abstract: Urban systems are the spatial carriers of social and economic relations at the regional level, and their relational and structural resilience are key to regional coordination and sustainable development, attracting widespread attention from scholars. In order to analyze the internal relationships of urban agglomerations in underdeveloped mountainous regions and optimize their spatial resource allocation and resilience, this study takes the urban agglomeration of Qiandongnan in China as an example and researches their internal relationships, development potential, and influencing factors based on quantitative methods such as social network analysis. The results show that the urban cluster in Qiandongnan presents “large dispersion and small aggregation” distribution characteristics, with the karst landscape as the main influencing factor; the spatial network exhibits a scale-free morphology with an obvious core–periphery structure, demonstrating moderate stability but poor completeness, weak equilibrium, and low overall resilience; only 15.61% of nodes demonstrate high competitiveness; urban units with functional roles serve as critical network nodes; urban units’ development potential is divided into three tiers (with 47.31% being medium-high), although overall levels remain low; and the development potential, overall network, individual network, and network resilience of urban units are all positively correlated, with economic and transportation development conditions being the main influencing factors. Based on the abovementioned findings, this study proposes a “multi-level resilience promotion path for network structure optimization”, which provides a theoretical basis and optimization control methods for the reconstruction and synergistic development of urban agglomerations. It also serves as a reference for the development planning of urban systems in other underdeveloped mountainous regions.

Keywords: social network analysis; urban system relationship; multi-dimension; gravity model; resilience improvement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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