Landscape beauty evaluation and influencing factors analysis of Zijinshan National Forest Park in Nanjing

Zijinshan National Forest Park in Nanjing is an important urban forest green space. Evaluating its landscape beauty can provide theoretical support for the realization of the aesthetic and social value of the national forest park landscape.

Based on factor construction and parameter system, this study takes Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park as the research object, and uses automatic linear model and stepwise regression analysis method to deeply evaluate the landscape beauty of Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park, with a focus on analyzing the main factors and group differences that affect the landscape beauty of Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park.

1) The 10 evaluation analysis factors had a significant correlation with the scenic beauty of the Zijinshan National Forest Park in Nanjing, and the factor decomposition method used in the article had good explanatory power for explaining the evaluation of scenic beauty. 2) The impact of the main landscape elements on the scenic beauty of the Zijinshan National Forest Park in Nanjing was ranked from high to low, including the coordination degree of facilities, the clarity of spatial scale, scene balance, the degree of image association, and the degree of landscape master-slave relationship and form unity. 3) There were certain group differences in the evaluation results. Compared to males, urban residents, and graduate and above groups, females, rural residents, and undergraduate and below groups had higher and lower dispersion evaluations of the scenic beauty of national forest parks, indicating significant individual differences.

By comprehensively using the stratified sample selection method and the beauty evaluation method, the landscape beauty of Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park was evaluated. It was found that the coordination degree of facilities, the clarity of spatial scale, the balance degree of scenes, the degree of image association, and the degree of landscape master-slave relationship and form unity are the main factors affecting the landscape beauty of Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park. Relevant departments should strengthen landscape management, enrich natural landscape elements, and set up popular science landscapes to help improve the landscape beauty of the forest park.