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Qi** Li
Geography
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
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Conclusion: The First Step in a Long Journey
This book has evaluated and corroborated the theoretical groundwork of combining the historico-geographical and configurational approaches through empirical studies (UK), Chinatown (Singapore) (China). It ...
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An Integrated Morphological Approach to Urban Conservation and Management: The Case of Nan**g
Moving onto to conservation practice, combining the historico-geographical and the configurational approaches can generate a constructive negotiation between and enhancing sustainable use of urban spaces. Th...
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Introduction
The aim of the book is to understand how the specific historical significance is embedded and contemporary socio-economic activities are organized in urban form and to provide alternative solutions for the con...
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Traditions of Urban Morphology: Opportunities and Challenges
has its strength and weakness in description, analysis and prescription of urban form. Integrating different morphological approaches—the historico-geographical, process-typological, configurational —could p...
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Integrated Examination of Urban Form: Historicity
This chapter presents two case studies with contrasting urban contexts chosen to apply the integrated methodological framework in the study of the historical transformation of cities. They , a well-preserved ...
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Urban Conservation and Management Practice in China
Since the economic reform, the rapid urbanization of Chinese cities has greatly speeded up the demolition of historic urban fabric in the old cities. The relationship and development has become contradictory...
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Urban Morphology and Historical Urban Landscape Conservation and Management
This chapter introduces the that have been developed since the 1960s: after the seminal work of M. R. following the morphologist— , the configurational approach developed and Hanson and . The theoreti...
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An Integrated Approach: Combining the Historico-Geographical and the Configurational Approaches
This chapter goes one step further debating how the historico-geographical and configurational approaches can be combined to offer better description, explanation and prescription of the physical form of the b...
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Integrated Examination of Urban Form: Historicity and Socio-economic Vibrancy
This chapter presents the selected Chinese city— as a case study to demonstrate the integrated methodological framework to evaluate the character and strength of urban form in terms of for . The historic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on the Timber Frame Paintings of Huangshixiaozong in Kulangsu
The Huangshixiaozong 黄氏小宗 is now known as Kulangsu’s 鼓浪屿 earliest traditional wooden ancestral hall with a high historical, artistic and cultural value. Its time-honored timber frame paintings possess distinct...
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Research on Wall Masonry Technologies of Traditional Residences in Tukeng Village, Quangang
The wall construction and masonry techniques employed in traditional residences in the southern Fujian region are unique due to environmental, historical and cultural influences. However, with the development ...
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Intercultural Transmission of Architectural Elements
The transmission of various styles and technologies of architecture is an often-discussed topic in the discipline of architecture history. This consideration, however, is based on the assumption that an archit...
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Urban Service Delivery and Access: The Special Case of Brunei Darussalam
Brunei Darussalam is the smallest country in Southeast Asia. Wealth derived from its hydrocarbon resources has enabled the state to provide its citizens a high quality of life. A small population also helps to...
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What and Where Are We Tweeting About Black Friday?
Most studies on Black Friday have largely relied on survey or sales data from case studies of specific cities, which are lack of spatial-temporal granularity. The recent development of location-aware technolog...
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Four Decades of Urban and Regional Development and Planning in China
In the last 40 years, China has made significant achievements in economic development and in urbanization as well. During 1978–2013, China witnessed an average annual economic growth (9.8%) and grew into the s...
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Analysis of the Variation in Quality of Street Space in Shrinking Cities Based on Dynamic Street View Picture Recognition: A Case Study of Qiqihar
As the focus of urban planning in China changes from incremental planning to stock-based planning, studies of shrinking cities become increasingly important. As the street is one of the basic elements of the s...
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A Unique Path: The Evolution of China’s Urban-Rural Relationship
The flow of information, cultures, goods, capital, and human resources echo off each other inside the network, while offering urban-rural integration based on market economy in traditional Chinese societies. G...
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Conclusion: Urban Rural Flows with Online Urbanization
The urban and rural structural patterns are related to their social relations. The combination of technology and local communities has rendered the space of flows more grass-rooted, and has expanded the space ...
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Measuring Growth and Shrinkage in a Rapidly Urbanized Area: The Case of Dongguan
Urban shrinkage is a global phenomenon which has aroused widespread concern about modern urban shrinkage from researchers across the world. Due to China’s rapid economic growth since the reform and opening-up,...
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The Pervasive Challenge of Error and Uncertainty in Geospatial Data
Understanding, quantifying and communicating uncertainty in spatial data, and its propagation through geospatial analyses have been a challenge long recognized in the geospatial community. Over the decades, ex...
