Integrated Characteristics of Space and Social Significance of Traditional Chinese Settlements

Abstract

Integrated characteristics of space of traditional Chinese settlements include coordination with natural environmental conditions,organic feature of spatial combination between living and production activities,aggregation of building spatial forms,and cognition of inner public center of settlements.These integrated features are overall abstraction and structural understanding for the diverse physical space form of traditional settlements.All these spatial features correspond to relevant sociological significance,such as thoughts of Fengshui and body universe,relationship between productive forces and production relations reflecting the structures of local social life,and the role of kinship and its continuation.Spatial structure corresponds to social control.Nowadays,it is very important and necessary to explore new appropriate social and economic vitalities of traditional Chinese settlements,so as to redefine its sociological significance,and to really help preserve and sustain traditional Chinese settlements.

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