Overview: Is based on the author’s graduate courses on human settlement analysis, assessment, and forecasting.Discusses three-dimensional coupling and interactive systems of planning and designing human settlem.This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 5 typical human settlement types: river valleys, water networks, hills, plains, and arid areas. Focusing on 3 elements of Trialism—(1) natural and constructed environments, resources, and visual landscapes in human settlements background; (2) survival strategies, customs, culture, and values in human
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