A Study On The Urban Geography Of Mindong In The Background Of Japan 's

From the urban morphology perspective, this article tries to explore the period characteristics in East Fujian area during the Ming Dynasty and discusses the differences of urban morphology between administrative city wall, military fortress and civil-constructed city wall based on textual research of the local gazettes from Ming Dynasty till the present day, supplemented by the interpretation of survey map during the Republic of China era and schematic diagram drawing using Google Earth. Following the above discussion, this article serves to answer three main questions, which are:What is the social background behind the fortification movement? How did people dealing with the relationship between the city wall and mountain? What are the differences between administrative city wall, military fortress and civil-constructed city wall?The research shows that the fortification movement during Ming dynasty reflects the decreased social control ability of the central government. The fortification movement shows not just the erection of city wall from scratch, but how a man-made landscape adapts to its surrounding terrain. Besides, a brand new perspective of understanding certain historical event can be acquired by examining the exact operation of the fortification movement. Based on the research of the urban morphology of the administrative city, this article argues that geographical factors affect the site selection and development of the settlement, whereas cultural factors determine the exact location of the political centre. On the other hand, the social background of one region affects the respond of the society to certain events which ends up in different outcome. Lastly, this article points out that military fortress and civil-constructed city wall make better use of the surrounding terrain compare to administrative city wall due to the complex social relationships within the administrative city. In addition, the emergence of the multiple cities implies the weak integration between military and civil administration in the local area.