Study On The Human Settlement Of The Typical Ancient City In Southwest Mountainous Region

The Study on the Typical Human Settlements of the typical Ancient city in Southwest Mountainous Region is important part of"planning theory and method of adaptive of the southwest mountain city", which is supported by national fund chaired by Pro.Zhao Wanmin. It selected the most representative five historical and cultural citys of Southwest Mountains—Dali, Lijiang, Langzhong, Zhenyuan, Fenghuang as case study, though in-depth understanding of their history and evolution of human settlements , and studying of experience and lessons of the formation and development process, to better direct to today's complex issues about city planning and design of in southwest mountainous. This text about Dali is one part of the analysis system.Ancient Dali has a long history and a strong culture. As one of the birthplace of Bai culture, it has been the centre of economic and cultural of western Yunnan. Dali locates in the beautiful marble Bazi, wests Cangshan, easts Erhai. Being a specific geographical history of the"fossil", it documents the entire process of social and economic development of Erhai Lake. Ancient Dali witnessed from a county developed to the regime center of the South minority, to the unitied government, and is the local Bai people's collective memory from generation to generation.This article studies the Human Settlements of Anicient Dali, from five levels—regions, settlements, blocks, buildings and cultural history node, basing on Human Settlements theoretical framework, composited Ancient literature and field research,The paper is divided into seven parts:The first part is the analysis of the Human Settlements of region. The author first analyzed the environment of Erhai Lake region and cultural context, and divided the development of regional into four stages, then analyzed the interaction to Dali lived culture between Regional environment and city.The second part is the analysis of shape of ancient settlements.The article descriptioned the static from three respects; then discussed the dynamic form, focused on the location changing and morphological evolution, at last analyzed and summarized landscape features and characteristics.The third part is the analysis of ancient form of block.First, this part analyzed evolution of morphology; then it studied the relationship of street system and architectures group; and last studied street space from features, scales, landscapes, interfaces and joints.The fourth part is the analysis of architectural form of the ancient city.This part started from cultural impact of architectural form, then discussed the morphological characteristics of traditional Bai architecture and architectural features., at last selected some examples to study. The fifth part selescted a node of cultural and historical city to discuss.This chapter is divided into two parts, first, it summaried Cultural history Nodes in material and non-material ways. And then studied value system.The sixth part is the analysis of unique of Dali'Human Settlements. Basing on the above analysis, this part studied the unique of Human Settlements of Ancient Dali from landspace, strategy situation and Bai culture.Part seven is thought of the protection and development of Ancient Dali.This part discussed the strategy about protection and development of Dali, though summarying useful experiences and existing problems of protection and development and combining with successful experience of others in protection and development.