Morphological Analysis And Construction Strategies For Small Towns In The Northern Zhejiang Plain In A Geographical Coupling Perspective

In response to new-type urbanization and common prosperity,developing small towns gradually become one of the national topics.Small towns play an important role in the middle connection between cities and villages and act as Chinese characteristics.Currently,urbanization in China is facing new chances and challenges like aging and urban renewal,how to build a high-quality human living environment,and achieve smart growth in small towns is an essential project.Historical water towns in the northern Zhejiang plain,where urban development is early and quick,are supposed to be valuable for research and practice.They could provide potential experience for urban construction in China.This paper took the morphological evolution of historical water towns in the Northern Zhejiang Plain as the main research content and was based on the settlement geography research perspective.It consisted of four parts: theoretical cognition,morphological interpretation,law construction,and construction strategy to establish a research path from the apparent phenomenon to the internal relationship.Firstly,based on the relevant theories of urban morphology and typology,we proposed a cognitive framework of identification,classification,and characterization,where regional human settlements morphology characteristics was established in the context of the man-land relationship between small town settlement development and geographical environment.Second,starting from the theoretical connotation of typology,by sorting out the material forms of land and river systems in the Northern Zhejiang plain in four morphological periods,the land and water texture of northern Zhejiang were classified.The human settlement pattern of 19 small towns under the regional types was extracted to trace their morphological evolution.Thirdly,based on the diachronic study,the location characteristics,evolution process,and dynamic mechanism of "water veins,land muscles and human settlements" behind the spatial form of "water-land-inhabitation" were analyzed.Accordingly,we explored the evolutionary characteristics of small towns’ morphological structure.Fourth,in view of the traditional water towns and needs,and the problems faced in Linpu Town as an empirical case analysis,put forward the "ecological-engineering-landscape-life" four one of the overall construction ideas,and to guide the plain region of small cities and towns in sexual characteristics in the construction of the residential environment of town planning and material space design strategy.Based on theoretical findings and practical needs,this study establishes regional cognition of the form of traditional water towns in northern Zhejiang from the multi-dimensional perspectives of architecture,urban-rural planning,and geography,and responds to the construction strategy of small towns in the new era under the guidance of "ecological restoration,urban repair".The aim is to provide a certain theoretical cognition basis and construction thinking guidance for the improvement and sustainable development of the regional traditional human settlement environment quality.