Overview
- Broadens the understanding of historical changes of the cityscape through the viewpoint of geographical systems
- Contains a comprehensive account of Nanjing, a city with more than 2500 years of history where ten dynasties held their capital
- Provides a new model of preservation plan of historical city from geographical perspective
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book studies the historical changes of the cityscape of Nanjing from the point of view of geographical systems. Nanjing is a city located along the Yangtze River, originated 2500 years ago, after which ten dynasties established their capital dependent on the geographical conditions. The book focuses on the analysis of the characteristics of mountain and river systems in the various historical periods, and provides investigations of historical sites along with these systems. This enables the search for the laws of historical evolution and spatial structure changes, which is also the research of the relationship between man and nature. It extends the traditional preservation and cityscapes planning to that of geographical landscape system. Readers working in the area of geography, history, urban and landscape planning will benefit from it.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yifeng Yao, Professor, the College of Geography, Nanjing Normal University
Education experiences: Ph.D in Quaternary geology at Nanjing University. Master Degree in Landscape Architecture at Beijing Forestry University. Bachelor Degree in Landscape Architecture at Nanjing Forestry University.
Twice obtained Germany DAAD (the Germany International Academic Exchange Service)
Scholarship, as a Visiting Scholar at Urban History Institute of RWTH Aachen University and Geography Institute of Giessen University, Germany.
Main research direction and fields: historical city preservation, landscape planning , human geography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanjing: Historical Landscape and Its Planning from Geographical Perspective
Authors: Yifeng Yao
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1637-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1635-6Published: 26 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9408-8Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1637-0Published: 15 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 212
Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Urban History, Environmental Geography