Study on Traditional Rural Village's Protection and Development Based on the Concept of Landscape Gene
Wang Nanxi
Lu Qi
Abstract：In the historic period of rapid urbanization and lagging in cultural heritage protection, the characteristic of the urban and rural dualistic social structure aggravates the country's cultural heritage damage. Therefore traditional rural landscape protection and the sustainable development become problems to be solved. Landscape gene concept provides a new method to examine the cultural characteristics of traditional settlements from the perspective of natural science. By understanding the concept of rural landscape genes, combining the characteristics of integrity, authenticity, continuity of rural landscape genes, and recognizing cultural landscape gene patterns which lie in traditional villages landscape, the paper puts forward the methods of zoning and landscape control which could help inherit the historical local rural landscape genes in Chinese traditional villages' rural landscape planning and design. Zoning emphasizes the regional, cultural importance and correlation, uses the landscape gene point-line -network-face-system to carry on the comprehensive evaluation and consideration. Landscape control emphasizes on controlling genetic changes in the process of organic update of traditional rural landscape in different levels, which are the traditional settlement landscape level, agricultural production landscape level, land utilization landscape level and nonmaterial cultural landscape level. From the perspective of rural landscape gene, the research so as to provide new ideas to the protection of traditional Chinese villages in the process of urbanization and development.
Keywords：Chinese traditional vilagesrural landscapelandscape generegional protectionorganic update
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 58-63 )