Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment Method
Understanding land use change patterns of rural town settlements (RTSs) is crucial for rural and small-town planning; however, few studies have explored pattern mining approaches to RTS trajectory analysis. In this study, we adopted a novel method by building sequence alignment method (SAM) to detec...
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| description | Understanding land use change patterns of rural town settlements (RTSs) is crucial for rural and small-town planning; however, few studies have explored pattern mining approaches to RTS trajectory analysis. In this study, we adopted a novel method by building sequence alignment method (SAM) to detect representative trajectory clusters of land use change of 1158 RTSs in seven waves from 1980 to 2015 in Guangdong, China. The results suggest that there are 10 clusters of RTSs with varying trajectories of land use change, implying their differences in the development processes and underlying socioeconomic, demographical, and institutional factors. A spatial distribution map of RTSs shows that stable cultivated ecological and stable ecologically dominant RTSs are distributed in the northern, eastern, and western parts of Guangdong, whereas stable rural construction and stable mixed construction RTSs are mostly located around the provincial boundary. Notably, 73% of the RTSs that have undergone changes in land use types are located in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), including urbanized and agricultural upgraded RTSs. The analysis presented here summarizes the driving forces of the spatial evolution of RTSs, including the location, landforms, industries, and policy factors. This study provides dynamic policy implications to understand longitudinal and sequential spatial restructuring and regional coordinated development in the fast-growing PRD area. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1ab6ae3033740caa7f036c7b879d8592023-11-23T20:44:17ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2022-02-0111231310.3390/land11020313Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment MethodSenkai Xie0Wenjia Zhang1Yi Zhao2De Tong3School of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, ChinaSchool of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, ChinaSchool of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, ChinaSchool of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, ChinaUnderstanding land use change patterns of rural town settlements (RTSs) is crucial for rural and small-town planning; however, few studies have explored pattern mining approaches to RTS trajectory analysis. In this study, we adopted a novel method by building sequence alignment method (SAM) to detect representative trajectory clusters of land use change of 1158 RTSs in seven waves from 1980 to 2015 in Guangdong, China. The results suggest that there are 10 clusters of RTSs with varying trajectories of land use change, implying their differences in the development processes and underlying socioeconomic, demographical, and institutional factors. A spatial distribution map of RTSs shows that stable cultivated ecological and stable ecologically dominant RTSs are distributed in the northern, eastern, and western parts of Guangdong, whereas stable rural construction and stable mixed construction RTSs are mostly located around the provincial boundary. Notably, 73% of the RTSs that have undergone changes in land use types are located in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), including urbanized and agricultural upgraded RTSs. The analysis presented here summarizes the driving forces of the spatial evolution of RTSs, including the location, landforms, industries, and policy factors. This study provides dynamic policy implications to understand longitudinal and sequential spatial restructuring and regional coordinated development in the fast-growing PRD area.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/313rural town settlements (RTSs)land usespatial evolutionsequence alignment method (SAM) |
| spellingShingle | Senkai Xie Wenjia Zhang Yi Zhao De Tong Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment Method Land rural town settlements (RTSs) land use spatial evolution sequence alignment method (SAM) |
| title | Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment Method |
| title_full | Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment Method |
| title_fullStr | Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment Method |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment Method |
| title_short | Extracting Land Use Change Patterns of Rural Town Settlements with Sequence Alignment Method |
| title_sort | extracting land use change patterns of rural town settlements with sequence alignment method |
| topic | rural town settlements (RTSs) land use spatial evolution sequence alignment method (SAM) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/313 |
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