During The Ming And Qing Dynasties Town Of North-central Ningxia Geographic Research

The historical urban geography is an important branch academics of the historical geography, study the regulation of the city rise, development and evolution in historical period is the basis to recognize the city today. with the economic and social development and the needs of area exploitation, the study area of the historical urban geography have changed from a single city to the development of the system of territorial towns, and give reasonable explaination on the urban structure and the system evolvement. It was the important period for urban development of the Ningxia north area in Ming and Qing Dynasty,having basically established today’s urban pattern. This article take several main cities as the core in Ming and Qing Dynasty, starts at the geography foundation, the cities scale, the cities function and interaction relations between development and the environment. Take these as my breakthrough point, and association some small cities, analyze many questions in its cities system establishment process.To be specific, this article mainly divides into four parts:The first Part is introduces the topic of the origins and significance, research status, content and research methods. Analyze natural geography and human geography background of rising and developing in urban in this district, and introduces the construction time to the main cities.The second part discusses the function of the cities in this area. Furthermore, analyze the changes of cities’function. Due to historical document has less records, the analyze on cities’ function can only rely on the way of general description, and arrives at the conclusion that those changes of this area in Ming and Qing Dynasty exert great and long influence on cities. In the third part, more problem are talked about. First of all, through the research on the scale of this area’s population and its cities, and thinks that there are corresponding relations between the scope of population and cities in this area. Second, analyze the formation process of the cities. Last, discusses the regulation of the cities’spacious distribution.The fourth part discuss the cities development restriction factors and the negative effect of the natural environment in this area. According to the advantages and insufficient of the cities in this area, put forward several proposals to the future city development.The development of cities have inheritances, through this research, the summaries of successes and defects on the Ningxia north area cities in history can provide useful references on the build of the cities in this area.