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Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (6): 1067-1079.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.436

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Identification of attractive territorial space in Dunhuang City and spatial optimization strategies

CHEN Tianhao1(), FANG Haozhou2()   

  1. 1. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215011, Jiangsu, China
    2. Gansu Guancheng Planning and Design Research Co., Ltd, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
  • Received:2024-07-18 Revised:2024-11-27 Online:2025-06-25 Published:2025-06-18
  • Contact: FANG Haozhou E-mail:15371817982@163.com;fhaozhou@126.com

Abstract:

Attractive territorial space research in the context of national spatial planning is an important way to build and improve the new period of national spatial pattern, explore its connotation mechanism and spatial identification path is important for enhancing regional cultural confidence, enriching social life, and protecting the ecological environment. Taking Dunhuang City, a typical city in the desert oasis area of northwest China, as an example, we constructed the evaluation index system for the identification of Dunhuang’s attractive territorial space, used the gray correlation model, kernel density analysis, standard deviation ellipse and other spatial analysis methods to comprehensively identify the attractive territorial space of Dunhuang City, and put forward a spatial development strategy for the identification results. The results of the study show that: (1) Dunhuang’s attractive territorial space is a spatial distribution situation of “large dispersion, small concentration”, and the attractive territorial space is a continuous spatial pattern in the southeast and dispersed spatial pattern in the northwest. (2) Dunhuang’s existing attractive territorial space is closely related to the high-density areas in the attractive territorial space, and the historical and humanistic value is the main evaluation factor affecting the existing attractive land space. Potentially attractive territorial space is positively correlated with the low-density area of attractive territorial space, and the natural ecological value is the main evaluation factor affecting the potentially attractive territorial space. (3) Dunhuang’s attractive territorial space is oriented in an east-west direction, and Dunhuang’s attractive territorial space is most influenced by the Gobi Desert, the oasis water system, and history and culture. (4) Dunhuang’s attractive territorial space has formed a charismatic spatial system structure of “charismatic cities leading development, charismatic corridors linking development, and charismatic nodes shaped by classification”, and the six high-quality attractive spaces constitute Dunhuang’s high-quality territorial spatial development pattern.

Key words: attractive territorial space, high quality, existing/potential, spatial identification, spatial optimisation strategies, Dunhuang City