Measurement of Urban-rural Integration Level and Spatial Pattern in the Core Area of Wuhan Metropolitan Area
刊名 Meteorological and Environmental Research
作者 Long TU1,2, Chengjiang DUAN1,2*, Yuanfang LI3
作者单位 1.School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;2.Village Culture and Human Settlements Research Center, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;3. State Grid Ezhou Huarong District Power Supply Company, Ezhou 436000, China
DOI 10.19547/j.issn2152-3940.2026.04.14
年份 2026
刊期 4
页码 66~72
关键词 Urban-rural integration; Wuhan metropolitan area; Spatial pattern; Spatial heterogeneity
摘要 Urban-rural integration is the key to breaking the urban-rural dual structure and achieving coordinated regional development. Taking the core area of Wuhan metropolitan area (Wuhan-Ezhou-Huanggang-Huangshi,Wu-E-Huang-Huang) as the research object, this paper breaks through the limitations of the traditional administrative division scale, adopts a 1 km×1 km high-resolution grid as the basic unit, and constructs an urban-rural integration evaluation system covering five dimensions: population, economy, society, space and ecology. Using multi-source spatiotemporal data [including LandScan, nighttime light, Point of Interest (POI), etc.], this paper measures the level of urban-rural integration through the combination weighting method, and explores its spatial pattern by using spatial autocorrelation and hotspot-coldspot analysis. The results show that the urban-rural integration in the study area presents an obvious composite structure of "one core leading, axis belts radiating, and multiple points linking". There is a significant positive spatial correlation (Moran's I index = 0.8803) in the study area. A "high-high (H-H)" agglomeration area is formed with Wuhan urban area and its surrounding suburbs as the core, while the northern and southern wings (the Dabie Mountain and the Mufu Mountain areas) present "low-low (L-L)" agglomeration characteristics due to geographical barriers.