SWOT quantitative model of livable communities’ construction in China’s villages and towns

AbstractThe SWOT quantitative model, mainly based on AHP, has been optimized and used to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of livable communities’ construction in China’s villages and towns, together with the literature and practice research. The SWOT strategic factors are obtained through a questionnaire, the factors’ scores are determined by the Delphi method, and the factors’ weights are calculated according to AHP. The overall development strategy of livable communities’ construction in China’s villages and towns has been deduced finally, that is, during the construction of livable communities in villages and towns, we can develop an active pioneering strategy. The sequence of strategic choice should be followed by the SO strategy, WO strategy, ST strategy, and WT strategy.