A new geographical language: A perspective of GIS

Zui, HU; Tang, Guoan; Lv, Guonian

doi:10.1007/s11442-014-1106-2

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“…The evolution of history and culture shows that spatial information has strategic value to human society [21]. In fact, this has promoted the development of maps.…”

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“…Map symbols can represent the semantic properties [27] and features of geographical objects. They can be also treated as the basic media for communicating, transmitting, exchanging, and expressing spatial information [21]. From the perspective of semiotics, map symbols are the visual symbolic system and are akin to human natural languages [29].…”

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Visualizing the cultural landscape gene of traditional settlements in China: a semiotic perspective

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China has a deep traditional culture and a long history, and is rich in traditional settlements (designated as “Famous Historic-Cultural Villages/Towns”, “Chinese Traditional Villages” by Chinese Government). To help people develop these traditional settlements to achieve the great goal of Chinese National Rejuvenation, Chinese scholar put forward the Cultural Landscape Genes of Traditional Settlements (CLGTS) in 2003. Since then, CLGTS theory has been employed to solve the issues of Chinese traditional settlements, such as the identification and regionalization of cultural landscape genes in traditional settlements, and the understanding of architectural features. Although CLGTS theory has made great strides in many application fields, there is still a lack of scientific findings in exploring the symbol mechanism from a perspective of semiotics. To explore this, we firstly examined the core features of CLGTS through a dialectical perspective. We analyzed two features of CLGTS in depth. First, CLGTS is the dialectical combination of macro settlement image and micro cultural factors of traditional settlements, material appearance and inherent traditional cultural implications, overall features and local self-renewal mechanisms, qualitative and quantitative methods, superiority of cultural factors and rich cultural connotation. Second, CLGTS is famous for its nonlinearity, self-organization, and self-iteration due to various spatial shapes and complex structures. Based on the above, we first proposed the concept of Symbolization Method of CLGTS (SM-CLGTS). Then, we further explored the key features, classification methods, and corresponding representation methods of CLGTS symbols. Finally, by using Visual C#.net program language, we developed a prototype system of the Traditional Landscape Genetic Symbol Database (TLGSD) to create and centrally manage CLGTS symbols. Test results show that TLGSD can meet the needs of constructing a CLGTS symbol database for a given region. This study is of great significance to explore and contribute to visualizing the CLGTS symbols.

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“…The evolution of history and culture shows that spatial information has strategic value to human society [21]. In fact, this has promoted the development of maps.…”

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“…Geodetector, put forward by Wang Jinfeng [50,51], is a statistical method to detect spatial heterogeneity and reveal its driving force, and it has been widely used in medicine [52][53][54][55][56], geography [57][58][59][60][61][62], sociology [63,64], economics [65][66][67], ecology [68,69], environmental science [70][71][72], landscape architecture [73,74], urban and rural planning [75][76][77][78][79][80], and other fields. In the working principle of geodetector, it is assumed that if a certain independent variable has an important influence on the dependent variable, the independent variable and the dependent variable should have the similar heterogeneity of spatial differentiation or stratification [81,82].…”

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The Key Factors Driving the Development of New Towns by Mother Cities and Regions: Evidence from China

Zhao

Zhang

2021

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As an important carrier of expanded urban spatial growth, new towns have been a “policy tool” for spatial production in the new era and have received long-term and constant attention from circles such as geography, planning, and economics. National new districts constitute a new regional space for China to implement the national strategy and promote the transformation of urban development mode. They are mutually reinforcing with their mother cities and hinterland provinces. Based on the geodetector method, this paper reveals the key factors driving the development of national new districts by mother cities and hinterland provinces and their interaction effects, which provides a basis for municipal and provincial governments to accurately formulate policies to promote the development of new towns by classification. The study shows that, firstly, there are five types of driving factors, that is, all-round driving factors, scale-increasing factors, expansion and quality-improving factors, expertise driving factors, and non-driving factors. The strength and dimension of the driving factors are characterized by prominent heterogeneity; R&D personnel, export and import trade are the key factors to expand the increment, optimize the inventory, and improve the quality; the overall development driving forces are in the order of innovation > opening > industry > investment > population. Secondly, the pairwise interaction between different factors exhibits two-factor enhancement, and the population shows a nonlinear increase in the driving force of investment, openness, and innovation on a provincial scale. Thirdly, according to the driving force of the factors and the interaction between them, suggestions are put forward based on the development stage and key demands for city and provincial governments to make policies for the development of national new districts, to support the establishment of scientific competition and cooperation between new towns and mother cities or regions, and to build a long-term collaborative development mechanism.

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“…The evolution of history and culture shows that spatial information has strategic value for human society [21]. In fact, this promotes the development of maps, which are considered as the third language of humans since it can help people describe, exchange, and transmit spatial information.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Map symbols represent the semantic properties and features of geographical objects. They are also treated as media for communicating, transmitting, exchanging, and expressing spatial information [21].…”

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Visualizing the cultural landscape gene of traditional settlements in China: a semiotic perspective

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Strobl

Min

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China has a deep traditional culture and a very long history, and is very rich in traditional settlements (designated as “Famous Historic-Cultural Villages/Towns”, “China Traditional Villages” by China Government). To help people develop the traditional settlements to achieve the great goal of Chinese National Rejuvenation, Chinese scholar put forward the Cultural Landscape Gene Theory of Traditional Settlements (CLGTS) in 2003. Since then, CLGTS has been employed to solve the issues of Chinese traditional settlements, such as the identification and regionalization of cultural genes in traditional settlements, and the understanding of architectural features. Although CLGTS has made great strides in many fields, there is still a lack of scientific findings in exploring the symbol mechanism from a perspective of semiotics. To explore this, we first examine the core features of CLGTS through a dialectic perspective. We analyze two features of CLGTS in depth. First, CLGTS is the dialectic combination of macro settlement image and micro cultural factors of traditional settlements, material appearance and inherent traditional cultural implications, overall features and local self-renewal mechanisms, qualitative and quantitative methods, superiority of cultural factors and rich cultural connotation. Second, CLGTS is famous for its nonlinearity, self-organization, and self-iteration due to various spatial shape and complex structures. Based on the above, we present the concept of a CLGTS Symbolization Method. Then, we further elaborate the key features, classification methods, and corresponding representation methods of CLGTS symbols. Finally, by using Visual C#.net program language, we develop a prototype system of the Traditional Landscape Genetic Symbol Database (TLGSD) to create and manage CLGTS symbols. Test results show that TLGSD can meet the needs of constructing a CLGTS symbol database for a given region. This study is of great significance to explore and contribute to the CLGTS Symbolization Method.

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A new geographical language: A perspective of GIS

Cited by 17 publications

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Visualizing the cultural landscape gene of traditional settlements in China: a semiotic perspective

Visualizing the cultural landscape gene of traditional settlements in China: a semiotic perspective

The Key Factors Driving the Development of New Towns by Mother Cities and Regions: Evidence from China

Visualizing the cultural landscape gene of traditional settlements in China: a semiotic perspective

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