Abstract

Urbanization is rapidly extending to alpine zones across our planet. Many mountainous landscapes are now destinations for leisure and are being transformed by the fragmented development of infrastructure. What are the extended forms of urbanization in these mountains? How can we read the complex interplay of such forms under the pressure of tourism? Beyond reading from an aerial perspective, the author introduces an array of landscape-informed fieldwork methods based on travelling transects of multiscalar routes, represented through photography and cartography. The transects contribute to a more nuanced and holistic understanding of alpine landscapes, presented in the case study of Mount Gongga of the Hengduan Mountains. Included in global travel narratives of the twentieth century, this Chinese alpine zone has recently experienced a dramatic transformation, providing a territory for testing the methods and, furthermore, for raising a question: Could this landscape-informed perspective open up other ways of reading and strategies to adapt urbanization to alpine landscapes?

摘要

城市化正在迅速扩展到我们星球上的高山地区。许多山地景观现在已成为休闲目的地，并因基础设施的分散发展而发生转变。这些山区城市化的延伸形式是什么？在旅游的压力下，我们如何解读这些形式的复杂相互作用？除了从空中阅读之外，作者还介绍了一系列基于多标量路线的旅行横断面的景观实地考察方法，以摄影和制图为代表。横断山脉的贡嘎山案例研究中展示了这些横断面有助于更细致、更全面地了解高山景观。包括在二十世纪的全球旅行叙述中，