A Study of Settlement Planning Strategy of Tableland Village, in Gully Regions of Loess Plateau, China

As the smallest social unit in gully region of Loess Plateau, "Tableland" villages own large amount of agricultural population. Using the analysis of ecological carrying capacity into the villages' settlement planning within small areas, this paper research on the relationship among maximum ecological carrying capacity, the current ecological carrying capacity and the current supporting population. Through the analysis of this relationship, to make the decision which villages owns the ability to accept more immigrations and which villages need to be integrated into other villages, at the same time, the villages were graded. Among the six grades of ecological carrying capacity villages, type. village is suitable to be extension, and type. village needs to be relocated.