A Study on the Evaluation and Spatial Variation of Urban Living Environment Quality in Hubei Province

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202612301

Author(s)

Jingxia Zhang*

Affiliation(s)

School of Logistics, Wuhan Transportation Vocational College, Wuhan, Hubei, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Scientific evaluation of urban living environment quality is an important foundation for promoting new urbanization. This paper takes 13 prefecture-level cities (states) in Hubei Province as the research object, and constructs a living environment quality evaluation system with 28 secondary indicators from four dimensions: natural ecology, social culture, production and life, and green and low carbon. The entropy weight TOPSIS method is used to comprehensively measure the living environment quality of each city in 2024, and the spatial differentiation pattern and driving type are analyzed by natural breakpoint method and K-means clustering. The study found that: (1) The urban living environment quality in Hubei Province presents a spatial pattern of "multi-polar leadership and clear gradient". Shiyan and Wuhan ranked first in comprehensive score (0.462), while Suizhou ranked last (0.248); (2) The social culture dimension has the highest weight (0.382) and is the primary factor causing the difference in living environment quality among cities; (3) The 13 cities can be divided into three levels: high quality (5), medium quality (6) and need to be improved (2), as well as three development models: ecological driving, economic and livelihood driving and balanced development. Differentiated optimization recommendations are proposed.

Keywords

Human Living Environment Quality; Entropy-Weighted TOPSIS; Spatial Differentiation; Cluster Analysis; Hubei Province

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