Investigation of Sustainable Development Mode of Buildings in Historical Site based on AHP and ArcGIS

Accurate evaluation of the values of current buildings serves as the important prerequisite of achieving sustainable development of the buildings in historical site and is also an important link of sustainable development of the historical site. By taking the Dutian Temple Historical Site in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, China, as an example, this study established two-level evaluation system of comprehensive value of the building based on analytical hierarchy process (AHP), formulated the scoring criteria and calculated the weights. Next, using ArcGIS, the current building data could be informationized and spatialized. According to the evaluation results, the buildings in the historical site can be classified into five types, and moreover, the corresponding five different sustainable development modes were proposed.