A STUDY ON ICON-EXPRESSION OF CHINA' S ANCIENT-CITY LANDSCAPE GENES “CELL-CHAIN-SHAPE” AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
LIU Pei-lin1,2, LIU Chun-la3,4, DENG Yun-yuan1, SHEN Xiu-ying1
1. Resources Environment & Tourism Management Department, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421008, China;
2. Urban & Environmental School, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
3. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
4. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract：Ancient cities are the historical and cultural treasures of China. How to express its landscape comprehensively and objectively? And how to anatomy and display its occurrence and development law? This paper aims to examine these issues. Inspired by Kevin Lynch's five elements of urban intention concept, the authors divide an ancient city's landscape structure into three parts which are landscape genes cell (basic unit of landscape), landscape genes chain (join channel of landscape) and landscape genes shape (whole form of landscape). Based on the methods and ideas expression of map icon, inspired by the concept of genes in biology, propose ancient city's landscape genes "cell-chain-shape" method, the authors find that (1) the ancient city's landscape gene shape can be broadly divided into types of square, rectangle, square, oval, round, irregular-shape, which can show the geographical similarities and the law of evolution. From spatial perspective, the genes shape of north china are mostly square; border areas are mostly rectangular; Yunnan mostly to be square; central and southern china are oval; Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Anhui are mostly round; Guizhou, Fujian, Zhejiang and other provinces are mostly irregular; (2) an ancient city's landscape gene cell is the display window of ancient city's basic unit. An ancient city's landscape gene cellular shows not only a continuous trend of diversification at the time series, but also some inheritance and variation in space; (3) an ancient city's landscape gene chain is mainly divided into level-regulation and standard-style local conditions, but with the influence of geographical environment, it also shows larger spatial differences.
刘沛林, 刘春腊, 邓运员, 申秀英. 我国古城镇景观基因“胞-链-形”的图示表达与区域差异研究[J]. 人文地理, 2011, 26(1): 94-99.
LIU Pei-lin, LIU Chun-la, DENG Yun-yuan, SHEN Xiu-ying. A STUDY ON ICON-EXPRESSION OF CHINA' S ANCIENT-CITY LANDSCAPE GENES “CELL-CHAIN-SHAPE” AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2011, 26(1): 94-99.
