The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature, and Institutional Optimization

Spatial utilization of historical topographic map and its application in land reconstruction of ancient Chinese urban land use

“…Research on the location selection and environmental background of cities during the ancient China shows that there is a coupling relationship between the size of cities and their administrative levels during the Chinese Empire period. In the urban system, as the city level increases, the importance of geographical features relative to institutional factors gradually weakens 8 . Therefore, obtaining a set of accurate data on the perimeter and area of cities at the national scale in the late Qing Dynasty is of great value for relevant historical and economic research.…”