title: Basic Characteristics and Spatial Patterns of Pseudo-Settlements--Taking Dalian as An Example.
abstract: A person's living behavior patterns are closely related to three types of settlements: real-life settlements, imagined settlements, and pseudo-settlements. The term "pseudo-settlement" (PS) refers to the places that are selectively recorded and represented after the mass media chose and restructure the residence information. As the mass media rapidly develops and people's way of obtaining information gradually change, PS has already become one of the main ways for people to recognize and understand real-life settlements, as well as describe their impressions of imagined settlements. PS also has a profound impact on tourism, employment, investment, migration, real estate development, etc. Thus, the study of PSs has important theoretical and practical significance. This paper proposes to put forward residential quarters where the mass media is displayed as the object of study and establishes the pseudo-settlement index system of Dalian in and elaborate analysis of the concept of PSs. From three aspects, including pseudo-buildings, pseudo-districts and pseudo-culture, this paper uses the ArcGIS 10.0 kernel density (spacial analyst) to analyze and interpret the basic characteristics and spatial patterns of 14 elements of the PS in Dalian. Through systemic clustering analysis, it identifies eight major types of PSs in Dalian. Then it systematically elaborates current situations and characteristics of the spatial pattern of PSs in Dalian, namely: regionally concentrated, widely scattered and blank spaces without pseudo-settlements. Finally, this paper discusses the mechanism of formation of PSs in Dalian.
authors.affiliation: School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China. gjj@dlou.edu.cn.|Applied Technology College of Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116300, China. gjj@dlou.edu.cn.|The Research Center of Human Settlements, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China. gjj@dlou.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jiaji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China. zyj575657@163.com.|The Research Center of Human Settlements, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China. zyj575657@163.com.
authors.forename: Yingjia
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China. lixueming999@163.com.|The Research Center of Human Settlements, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China. lixueming999@163.com.
authors.forename: Xueming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006798:Housing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D062206:Spatial Analysis; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Dalian; characteristics; pseudo-settlement; spatial pattern