Abstract:
The evaluation of the quality of human settlements serves as the foundation for rural revitalization and is crucial for the government to formulate precise policies. This paper takes ten agriculture-related districts in Tianjin as its research subjects. Firstly, the entropy weight method is employed to establish an evaluation system comprising 24 indicators, encompassing infrastructure, public services, housing conditions, health environment, and economic industries. Subsequently, quantitative evaluations and cluster analyses of the rural human settlement quality in each district are conducted. It is revealed that each district exhibits distinct spatial differentiation characteristics in comprehensive evaluations and fractal analyses. Lastly, geographic detectors are utilized to detect and analyze the influencing factors. Among these, the single-factor detection results indicate that rural human settlements in Tianjin are influenced by numerous factors. Eight indicators, such as the total power of agricultural machinery and the number of rural tourist attractions, possess strong explanatory power. Notably, the economic and industrial dimension exerts the strongest influence on human settlements, whereas public services have the weakest impact. Therefore, promoting rural economic and industrial development remains pivotal in enhancing rural human settlements. The results of two-factor interaction detection demonstrate nonlinear enhancement and dualfactor enhancement, suggesting that the quality of the human settlement environment in Tianjin is jointly affected by multiple factors. Among these, the dimensions of economic industries and infrastructure possess the strongest interactive driving force, exerting the greatest impact on the quality of rural human settlement environments in Tianjin, thereby leading to regional differences.