Abstract:
As critical water conservancy facilities constructed during the People's Commune era, aqueducts serve as tangible witnesses to local agricultural production and rural life. Currently, however, they are confronted with issues including insufficient value recognition and inadequate protection and utilization. Based on the heritage corridor theory, this study takes 127 aqueduct remains in Luoyang City, Henan Province as the research subject. It analyzes their spatial distribution characteristics via ArcGIS, carries out suitability assessment using the Minimum Cumulative Resistance model, constructs a comprehensive resistance surface to simulate potential corridors, and classifies corridor grades through the social network analysis method, so as to explore hierarchical and zoned protection strategies. The findings indicate that the aqueducts in Luoyang show prominent agglomeration features, which are mainly concentrated in the eastern and central regions while sparsely distributed in other areas. The heritage corridors take the eastern agglomeration zone as the intersection, presenting a spatial pattern of ‘one primary corridor and two secondary corridors'. Finally, this paper proposes a collaborative conservation strategy that takes the heritage corridor as the core guidance and promotes the coordinated development of six agglomeration zones, aiming to provide a reference for the holistic protection and reuse of aqueduct heritage in Luoyang.