Author(s)

Chaofan Liu, Huiying Lin, Jing Sun, Xiangran Zhao, Yongci Qu, Lu Deng

Corresponding Author

Huiying Lin

Abstract

Promoting integrated urban-rural development is a crucial strategy for addressing the imbalance in urban and rural growth, tackling rural issues, and advancing Sustainable Development Goals 11 (SDGs 11). Current methods for identifying suburban rurality lack comprehensive coverage of rural elements and their interconnections. Rurality serves as a comprehensive indicator of rural development levels and is essential for revealing internal disparities within rural regions. In this context, this study adopts a multidisciplinary perspective encompassing geography and ecology, sociology and anthropology, economics, as well as architecture and planning. Focusing on villages, towns, and sub-districts as research units, we have developed a multidisciplinary evaluation system for rurality. We utilized linear weighting and natural breakpoint methods to identify suburban rural units in Changchun City. The research findings indicate that identifying suburban rurality from a multidisciplinary perspective aligns well with the diverse and complex characteristics of suburban rural structures. This approach effectively reflects the spatial distribution features of rurality in Changchun City and provides practical guidance for constructing sustainable cities and communities. Ultimately, the spatial distribution of rurality in Changchun exhibits a trend of diminishing influence from multiple centers outward, suggesting that the city has made progress in its polycentric development.

Keywords

SDGs, Suburban Rural Area, Disciplinary Perspective, Spatial Characteristics