(Recovering) China’s Urban Rivers as Public Space by Kelly Shannon, Chen Yiyong

“…It reviews and summarizes ‘hydraulic civilization’, taking cognizance of feng shui as it does so. Four historical cases testify to the fact that China’s great cities were founded on riverbanks and developed in tandem with floodplain dynamics. …”
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Extraction of Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Jiangnan Urban Landscape under the Influence of Geomorphology by Shuhua Wang, Anhua Qin

“…The construction of cities and ponds originated from political influence, environmental constraints, and architectural techniques; the landscape pattern of the combined shape and complementary potential originated from the creation of various types of gardens in various dynasties; the complementary planning of landscape, the traffic creation of the plain and water network, and the production factors of agriculture and sanitation influenced the construction of the countryside landscape; the traditional view of feng shui, poetry and painting, the eight scenes of the city and countryside, and other humanistic intentions influenced the overall situation of the town and the landscape. …”
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