Efficient space and resource planning strategies: treelike fractal traffic networks of the Ming Great Wall Military Defence System. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Efficient space and resource planning strategies: treelike fractal traffic networks of the Ming Great Wall Military Defence System. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Main Title:
- Efficient space and resource planning strategies: treelike fractal traffic networks of the Ming Great Wall Military Defence System
- Authors:
- Cao, Yingchun
Zhang, Yukun - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Traditionally understood as a linear defence wall, the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) is actually part of a larger, complex system: the Ming Great Wall Military Defence System (the M-GWMDS).This article presents findings of an ongoing research into the authenticity of the M-GWMDS, based on the Geographic Information System (GIS) platform and fractal theory. Here, the focus is on the analysis of the spatial distribution characteristics of the traffic networks of the M-GWMDS, as this allows elucidating the system relationship of the M-GWMDS based on such characteristics. The study findings reveal that the M-GWMDS is thoroughly integrated with the linear Great Wall via the treelike fractal traffic networks, thus forming a defence system characterized by highly efficient space and resource planning. At the more macroscopic level, the Great Wall military defence settlement system and the civil settlement system are further merged into a mutually complementary double-fractal structure, which effectively copes with the special man–land relationship on the survival and defence in the border areas.
- Is Part Of:
- Annals of GIS. Volume 24:Issue 1(2018)
- Journal:
- Annals of GIS
- Issue:
- Volume 24:Issue 1(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 24, Issue 1 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 24
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0024-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 47
- Page End:
- 58
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-02
- Subjects:
- Traffic networks -- the Ming Great Wall Military Defence System -- civil settlement system -- system relationship -- fractal theory
Geographic information systems -- Periodicals
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910.285 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1947-5683 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tagi ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/19475683.2018.1424735 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1947-5683
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