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Spatial Compatibility of Landscape Character State Assessment and Development Projects at County Scale: The Case of Songzi City, China

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  • Yunong Wu

    (Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China)

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Rural landscape character assessment (LCA) is significant for identifying and understanding rural landscapes and maintaining the cultural connotations of the rural vernacular. Taking the rural area of Songzi City as an example, this study identifies the landscape character (LC) and analyzes the coupling between the current state of its LC and a construction project based on the depth of rural landscape planning in the county and combining the ecology, arable land, and water body protection boundary as constraints. Thus, we obtain the “point, line, and surface” site selection suggestions for the construction activities of leisure agriculture, power grid, and energy facilities, and the zoning classification and layout control strategies for LC are subsequently proposed. The results show the following: (1) The county LC factor is a combination of natural and human factors used to obtain 165 LC areas in Songzi City. (2) The current state of rural LC is used to determine LCs from shallow to deep and to provide the basis for index selection and judgment for evaluation. (3) The coupling relationship between rural LC and construction projects varies and must be judged using subjective and objective methods, desktop research combined with field analyses, and multi-stakeholder participation. Based on the perspective of coupling and coordinating human and landscape, this study applies local-scale LCA to practice, strengthens the interface with rural construction planning, and provides research ideas and methodological references for the sustainable control of rural LC.

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  • Yunong Wu, 2025. "Spatial Compatibility of Landscape Character State Assessment and Development Projects at County Scale: The Case of Songzi City, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-26, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:14:y:2025:i:5:p:1019-:d:1651137
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