Comprehensive Evaluation of an Urban Village's Reconstruction Ability under the View of Sustainable Urban Development: Case Study of Guangzhou

In the future, urban village will be a sort of irreplaceable resource for sustainable urban development in China. With great amount of resources invested into urban village reconstruction, selecting some villages with advantages to be reconstructed is urgently necessary. After comprehensively analyzing the influencing factors of reconstruction, this paper builds a comprehensive evaluation system of urban village reconstruction ability, with 14 indexes from three aspects: the basic situation of urban villages, asset size of villages and social demands. By the mean-squared deviation method, this paper calculates the index weight and the comprehensive level of the reconstruction ability of several Guangzhou urban villages. Then by the cluster analysis with SPSS software, the villages are compartmentalized into 8 grades. This paper also gives some further countermeasures on the issue to cater to the need of sustainable urban development.