Abstract:
In light of the multitude of adversities faced by traditional villages nowadays, boosting the dynamism of these villages has become an important approach in guaranteeing the success of both safeguarding and utilizing the available space therein. As such, this paper takes Guanzhong traditional village as the objects of research and created a dynamism evaluation model for the purpose of this research. Evaluation data acquired via the combination of downloaded spatial data, looked-up statistics, field investigation, and questionnaire survey were fed for hierarchical analysis and multi-factor space-weighted superposition analysis, both of which were run using ArcGIS. These analyses facilitated the subsequent determination of the village's dynamism index, inactivity contribution, and degree of regional dynamism. The inactivity contribution analysis shows that the evaluation factors attributed to the highest inactivity contribution under the indicator layers of tangible inheritance, intangible inheritance, and village space utilization status quo were the proportion of traditional buildings, interdependence between Intangible inheritance and village, and population ratio old village residents to those of registered households. The regional activity analysis shows that plains on the western bank of Yellow River as well as both sides of the Weihe River displayed the highest level of socioeconomic activity. Contrary to the plains, the plain-tableland transitional regions see had only moderate socioeconomic activity, whereas that in the mountainous regions, as represented by Beishan Mountain and the northern piedmont of Qinling Mountain, has been considerably inactive. Moreover, it was also found that extremities in regional socioeconomic activities tend to hinder the progress of space protection and dynamism-driven cultural inheritance in traditional villages. Judging from the abovementioned findings, the dynamism evaluation model formulated herein has improved the methods in which quantitative dynamism evaluation can be carried out for traditional villages, in turn providing targeted scientific grounds and references for traditional village dynamism improvement campaign.