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The Traditional Form of Mountainous Towns in Sichuan & Chongqing


ZHAO Ke,WANG Xiao-wen

DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2004.06.003

Received ,Revised September 02, 2004, Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015

Volume ,2004,Pages 13-17

  • Abstract
The mountainous towns in Sichuan and Chongqing lie in mountainous region. During long-term practice, the people living there created a town form full of mountainous characteristics, such as highly multiple, multidimensional and intensive town form with a triune from town, building and terra. In this paper, the traditional form characteristics of mountainous towns are studied offering historical reference for planning and building mountainous towns of Sichuan and Chongqing full of mountainous characteristics in new century.