Ten compactness properties of circles: measuring shape in geography

This essay sheds new light on the meaning and measurement of compactness—one of the most intriguing and least‐understood properties of geographic shapes. We articulate a unified theoretical foundation for the study of shape compactness that rests on two simple observations: First, that the circle is the most compact of shapes. And second, that there are 10—and possibly more—distinct geometrical properties of the circle that make it the most compact of shapes. We introduce these 10 properties, illustrate them with real‐world examples and define indices associated with these properties that can be calculated using a geographic information system.     

苏州阊西地区城市景观的形成与发展

苏州城西北门阊门以西一带自然风光优美,自古以来即是达官贵人的游冶迎送之地,至明代,则逐步形成显著的城市景观。阊西地区城市化的空间过程,是以阊门附近为核心,沿水道呈放射形带状发展的。本文考察自先秦吴国建都至明清时期阊西一带城市景观的形成和发展,重点探讨明清时期阊西地区城市化发展过程中城市职能分工所带来的景观差异。     

近代江门的侨资房地产业及其对城市建筑景观的影响（1862—1949年）

论文从区域历史地理学的研究视角出发,通过对相关地方档案、方志等资料的整理分析,对近代华侨投资江门房地产业的阶段性特征、华侨投资江门房地产业的类别差异作了初步研究,并在此基础上分析了侨资房地产业的发展对江门城市建筑景观变迁的影响。得出结论：华侨投资江门房地产业有着鲜明的阶段特征。1919年之后的侨资房地产业不断发展,抗战前达到投资的黄金时期,并呈现出商业化的趋势,商住混合型的骑楼得到大规模建设,发展到纯商业性的酒楼及戏院的出现。抗战后的侨资房地产业虽没有此前繁荣,但带有恢复性建设的特点。伴随着侨资房地产业发展的同时,中西文化在侨资这一媒介作用下共同被融入到房地产建设当中,使近代江门城市的建筑景观呈现出丰富特征。     

历史性的地理陈述与阅读

我们基本上是通过对文本或文献的阅读,才可能重构关于历史时期的地理景观和地理知识,才可能理解历史时期地理景观与地理知识对于古人和今人的意义。因此本文考察了历史文本或文献中地理陈述与地理景观和地理知识之间的各种关系,以及当前对这些地理陈述的不同阅读方法。     

《六世班禅画像》唐卡考证

本文根据档案记载对《六世班禅画像》唐卡的制作时间、作者、内容进行了考证,阐释了其“样式”的形成及其对清宫唐卡创作的影响。此唐卡画像属清宫独创的写真画唐卡类,它融合了多种绘画技法即西藏唐卡技法、西洋写实技法和中国传统的青绿山水技法,可以说是一种新的唐卡绘画形式。     

金陵八家与金陵画派的画风比较

分析画派这一概念的内涵,从时代、题材、师从、技法等对金陵八家和金陵画派的画风作一比较。认为明末一些金陵画家称其“金陵八家”更为妥当。     

论分形与旅游景观

本文运用分形理论论述了旅游景观构成要素的自相似性质,指出人类旅游行为本质上是为了摄取地理信息,而分形体是有效的信息之源,能使游人产生负熵的感受(即美感)。历史的混沌过程与地貌的分形构造形成了非富的旅游资源。借助分形学原理,依据有序与无序对立统一的原则设计旅游景观,必将使旅游资源得以合理地开发和充分地利用。     

中国古典诗词中地理景观信息及其旅游地理意义分析

中国古典诗词作为中华民族优秀传统文化结晶,其中充满了大量的优美地理景观信息,这些地理景观大多成为现代旅游风景。本文对这些地理景观信息加以分析,提出其地域类型并探讨其旅游地理意义。     

The View from the Verandah: Levuka Bungalows and the Transformation of Settler Identities in Later Colonialism

The residential architecture of Levuka, Fiji, contains a diverse and well-preserved sample of what architectural historians have called the British tropical bungalow. Dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these small frame structures bear witness to the in situ development of a descendant colonialist identity amongst the European settlers of the port town. Analysis of the degree to which these houses conform to, and diverge from, the normative traits of the global bungalow style provides insight into the material processes of later colonialist communities and their increasingly complex cultural and social identities.     

Re-Inventing Mississippian Tradition at Etowah,Georgia

Frequent population movement and political re-organization spurred a pattern of repeated abandonment at the Mississippian mound center of Etowah in the southeastern United States. These processes also characterized the larger surrounding region in north Georgia and southeast Tennessee. The Etowah abandonments provided inflection points where interest groups were able to distance themselves from previous conventions of structure and reformulate new forms of sociopolitical organization. Re-invented traditions were embedded in changing definitions of genealogical and mythical time, and mediated through the built environment and iconography.