Abstract：There are dozens of historical-cultural cities and towns in Yunnan. The rich variety of the natural environment has given the historical-cultural cities and towns in Yunnan a distinctive regional characteristic, and it has played an unique and important role to their CI(City Image) composition. And it is easy for cities or towns to have an abundant landscape series in such a natural environment. Considering the characteristics of natural environment, the CI designing for historical-cultural cities and towns in Yunnan should act on the following three principles:to respect and conform to the nature;to combine human and natural elements together in CI designing;to consider cities or towns and the natural environment in which they are located as a whole and to combine CI and RI(Regional Image) so as to ensure an integrity and accuracy of CI. According to these principles, suggestions should be made for the design of ideal image and visual image of historical-cultural cities or towns. The ideal image usually indicates a city or town's historical-cultural characteristics and the intension of its spirit. How ever, as for historical-cultural cities or towns in Yunnan, elements of natural environment are also important characteristics of their ideal images. It is thus clear that in the ideal image design of historical-cultural cities and towns in Yunnan, the special important role of natural environment must be paid great attention to. As for the design of visual image in accordance with the special characteristics of natural environment in Yunnan, attentions should be paid to several issues. At first, laying stress on the whole harmonious effects of tow n-country landscape. Secondly, laying stress on the effect of three-dimensional landscape. Most of historical-cultural cities and towns in Yunnan can be over-looked from nearby mountains. So, whether or not the cities or towns' whole views are unity, and roof style and color of buildings are coordinate, will have a huge influence on their visual image. On the other side, those surrounding mountains also can be the scenery which could be seen from towns. So it is very important to protect and design the visual field between towns and mountains. The third, laying stress on arrangement of the landscape series in basin area. This series could be divided into two parts. One's view point is in towns, another side. At last, laying stress on color control for buildings in cities and towns.
施维克, 吴启焰, 孙弘. 自然环境与云南历史文化城镇形象设计[J]. 人文地理, 2002, 17(6): 62-65.
SHI Wei-ke, WU Qi-yan, SUN-Hong. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE IMAGE DESIGN OF HISTORIC-CULTURAL CITIES AND TOWNS' IN YUNNAN PROVINCE. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2002, 17(6): 62-65.
