Cultural landscape genome maps:A scientific language perspective of traditional settlements
Traditional settlements have been often considered as the key parts of the excellent cultural herit-ages in China.Trying to forwarding the traditional settlements to serve the national strategic needs is the big challenges in this era.For example,traditional settlements can promote the inheritance project for the Chinese excellent traditional cultures and building the cultural confidences of China.However,there is a lack of fruitful research findings or reports on the dedicated research framework in the fields of traditional settlement land-scapes.This will lead to the lack of effective theoretical tools or methods in face of analyzing and understand-ing the traditional cultural features of traditional settlement landscapes in depth.In order to solve this issue,the main purpose of this research is to prove that the cultural landscape genome maps of traditional settlements(CLGMTS,proposed by Chinese scholars since 2015)can be used as the scientific language of the traditional settlement landscapes through combining the theory of cultural landscape gene of traditional settlements(CLGTS,proposed by Chinese scholar in 2003).The main theoretical contributions of this work can be de-scribed as the following.First,the article systematically details the corresponding concepts,features,the nature of connotations,and the state-of-the-art of CLGTS,and further describes the scientific characteristics and meanings of CLGMTS.Second,it draws the core features of the scientific language of traditional settlement landscapes which is defined by CLGMTS through the perspective of scientific languages in the natural scientif-ic fields.Third,the study makes it clear that CLGMTS can be characterized as the scientific language of tradi-tional settlement landscapes through its core concepts,core framework,and technical framework.Fourth,it analyzes and discourses the scientific meanings of CLGMTS defined as the scientific language of traditional settlement landscapes in terms of the functions,methodologies,and philosophical senses.Finally,through this study,CLGMTS which is the results of multiple disciplines merged in depth on the areas of traditional settle-ment landscapes,such as modern informatic technologies,natural scientific methods and theoretical models,scientific philosophy,etc.
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