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Critique and Discussion on Some Typical Gardens
In order to render a complete concept of Jiangnan Gardens after analyzing their structural principles, the final chapter of this book will introduce...
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Assessment on the component pattern of mountain vacation potential suitability in Hunan Province, China
In China, mountain destinations offer more opportunities for vacation than beaches and springs, with a larger national coverage, richer landscapes...
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Evaluation of the production-living-ecology space function suitability of **shan County in the Taihang mountainous area, China
A rational utilization of land is a matter of importance in sustainable development of mountainous area. The land function in mountainous areas has a...
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Cure, Leisure, and Exercise: The Emerging Spa Landscapes in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Hungary
The idea that thermal baths in conjunction with parks could provide public health benefits was increasingly widespread across early modern Europe....
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Architektur und Landschaft unter der Mitternachtssonne. Die nachhaltige Strategie der Norwegischen Landschaftsrouten
In den 1990er Jahren entwickelte die norwegische Regierung das National Scenic Routes- Konzept, das sich auf die Neugestaltung 18 lokaler...
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Changing Attitudes of Bei**gness to Westernized Place Names in Bei**g: From the Semi-Colonial Period to Postmodern Twenty-First Century
One of the goals of China’s place name governance, which started in 2015, is to remove westernized place names. This study investigates what...
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van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter (Fig. 1) who suffered from severe headaches, *nightmares, epileptic seizures, *tinnitus,...
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Site Selection
The planning and construction of any city is carried out in a specific natural environment, which is a combination of nature and man.
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See Perception and Attention Deficit Model.
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Trans-experience: Expansion of Boundaries
In 2008 New York’s Guggenheim Museum held a solo exhibition of Cai Guoqiang’s works. This can perhaps be seen as proof that the generation of...
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Also known as *deuteranopia, deutan colour blindness, and deutan colour deficiency. All four terms are used to denote a *colour vision deficiency of...
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See Mach Bands.
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Belt or network? The spatial structure and sha** mechanism of the Great Wall cultural belt in Bei**g
The relationship between cross-regional cultural landscapes does not currently receive enough attention in cultural landscape conservation. Cultural...
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The Forms of Traditional Chinese Aesthetic Spirit
Aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into the nature and discipline of beautybeautydiscipline of beauty and aesthetic responsesaestheticsaesthetic...
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Geochemistry and genesis of geothermal well water from a carbonate–evaporite aquifer in Chongqing, SW China
Thermal water is an important natural resource. The hydrogeochemistry and geothermometry of thermal water from the Qianyi well (TWQW), which is...
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The Wellbeing of Nations
This chapter is the heart of the book. It highlights the multi-dimensional composite indexes of wellbeing that provide the country-wide,...
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Historical Distance and Literary Re-Presentation
On the evening of June 11, 1931, Walter Benjamin met with two other prominent figures of the German intellectual elite, Bertolt Brecht and Wilhelm...
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The Dunhuang Manuscripts—An Encyclopaedic Treasure
The Dunhuang manuscripts around 60,000 volumes are collected by scores of libraries and museums from more than a dozen countries. Most manuscripts...
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The heritage and cultural values of ancient Chinese maps
Ancient Chinese cartography dates back to the Western ** Dynasty in the third century. Cartography was initiated during this period by Pei **u, a...
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Ceramics of the Ming Dynasty
The Ming DynastyMing Dynasty wasMing Dynasty, The founded in 1368 and overthrown in 1644, lasting 276 years with 16 emperorsEmperors.