A Study on the Impact of Urban Functional Mixing on Neighborhoods and Social Inclusion Based on Big Data Analysis

Wenshu Li1, Yichen Yang1, Chunsong Li 1
1School of Urban Construction, Beijing City University, Beijing, 101309, China

Abstract

Increasing the degree of mixed use of urban land and building diverse and multifunctional urban spaces are important ways to shape urban vitality and promote healthy development of neighborhoods and social inclusion. Taking the urban area of City A as the research object, the article screens and classifies the collected POI data, and realizes the division and identification of functional areas in the core urban area of City A by calculating the degree of chaotic urban land use in parcels based on entropy under the fine-grained grid scale of the road network. Subsequently, the calculation methods of spatial weights and bandwidths of the model based on ordinary least squares and the Moran’s index eliciting the GWR model are introduced. Finally, eight factors that have an impact on neighborhood and social inclusion were selected as explanatory variables, and an empirical study of the spatial distribution of neighborhood and social inclusion and the influencing factors was carried out using the geographically weighted regression model. The study found that the functional mixing degree in the main urban area of City A generally shows the spatial distribution of high-mixing degree plots of land with “center clustering and multi-point scattering”, and locally shows the characteristics of piecewise clustering in the central area, linear clustering along the main roads, and pointwise clustering around the subway stations. The four influencing factors of common habits, psychosocial distance, social contact behavior and external behavioral interference are positively correlated with the changes of neighborhood relationship and social inclusion.

Keywords: POI, Moran index, GWR model, least squares method, urban functional mixing degree