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Settlement–river relationship and locality of river-related built environment
Indoor and Built Environment ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 , DOI: 10.1177/1420326x20976500
Fang Wang 1 , Chenge Gao 2
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In the human–land system, a river basin is the geographical unit most commonly imprinted by human activities, leading this highly variable environment to have complex human–land relationships. Most of the world’s civilisations have been cultivated by rivers or originated from river basin areas, allowing human settlements and rivers to interact, and thereby developing co-evolutionary processes and creating an internal dynamic coupling mechanism, e.g. human’s historical relationship with river flooding. Nurtured by the fertile plain fields, rich soil and abundant water resources in the river basin, humans struggled through the adversity of river-related disasters and environmental changes by migrating, civilising and subsequently surviving. Environmental changes and frequent complex river fluctuations shaped the morphology of settlements and the locality of the regional culture landscape along the river. Under the dynamic effect of river and human activities, diverse urban and rural settlement networks presented unique ‘localities,’ which became a key element in maintaining self-identity, regional cultural confidence and local cultural identity in the built environment. A built environment is the result of the natural, cultural and socio-economic processes that have been constructed through space, time and experience. Throughout history, human’s understanding and perception of the natural environment, the relationship between humans, ecology and river systems as well as the core connotation of human needs and values have varied. Therefore, the settlement–river relationship presents varied spatiotemporal characteristics and experiences evolution in different stages. Note that it is helpful to articulate the evolution process and internal mechanism from a historical perspective in order to comprehensively deepen the understanding of this human–land relationship. Currently, nations worldwide have attached great importance and efforts to the sustainable development of river-related built-up environments, the management and protection of river system ecology and the social and economic development of river basins. Examples of this include the water and ecological environment management along the Rhine River in Europe, the development of the Yangtze River economic belt and the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in China. Various studies have explored the transitional process and spatiotemporal differentiation of settlement– river systems from the perspective of evolution and adaptation by investigating the coupling relationship and internal mechanism of human and nature, in river-related built environments from the perspective of heterogeneity and interconnection, and by innovating current research methods from the perspective of evaluation and predication (Figure 1).
更新日期:2020-12-01
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