With the continuous acceleration of the urbanization process, the contradiction between man and land has become increasingly prominent, and the compact urban development mode has become one of the main ways to curb the disorderly spread of the city and alleviate the "big city disease". According to its core connotation and related theories, this paper takes 13 cities in Changsha, Hunan, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan as the object of study. The compactness evaluation index system is established from three dimensions: high density, reasonable structure and good efficiency. Stepwise regression analysis, t...