Abstract:
Taking Shangzhou district of Shaanxi province as study area, the comprehensive influence evaluation indexes of rural residential areas are established from the natural,social and economical,ecological aspects, and the influence and grade division of rural residential areas are analyzed. Using the weighted Voronoi diagram technology,the consolidation direction of rural residential areas is determined,and the layout planning of rural residential areas in Shangzhou district is realized.The results indicated that all the villages were classified into three categories, namely 587 high-level villages, 1 052 mediate-level villages, 984 low-level villages according to grades of rural residential comprehensive influence. The spatial features of different grades of rural residential areas are significantly different.There presented four feasible directions of land consolidation for villages, that is, centralized development, prior development, interior consolidation and direction of consolidation and combination.