4 pages, The physical structure of farming society is influenced by the intricate relationship between settlement patterns, resource availability, housing types and population dynamics. Understanding these elements is essential for comprehending how agricultural communities organize their spaces, manage resources and maintain social and economic stability. The study emphasizes the various settlement forms, from nucleated villages to distributed homesteads and their effects on land use, resource management and community cohesiveness. This article investigates the physical structure of farming societies to elucidate how agricultural practices influence the geographical, social and economic fabric of rural communities.
14 pages, via online journal, China's rapid urbanization process has pushed rural villages into an urban-rural integration movement. Several modes and approaches have been applied to remake space in rural China, which differ greatly in restructuring outcomes. In response, this article builds on the insights of regime theory to develop a conceptual framework to reveal the mechanism behind China's rural spatial restructuring and seeks to explore the underlying reasons that affect the outcomes. It is found that resource adequacy, the quality of resource coalition, and the effectiveness of implementation determine the rural regime's capacity to manage spatial restructuring. Case studies from Hua County, Chaohu City, and Shenzhen are used to illustrate the conceptual framework's application and facilitate a comparative analysis from the perspective of rural regime capacity. The findings provide a critical rethinking of the “sustainable remaking of rural space”, which could therefore shed light on the rural governance of countries in the global south generally.
