Abstract：From the perspective of urban morphology, this paper summarizes the landscape characteristics of the city origins in China and abroad, and sums up three landscape morphology modes: “Wall & Platform”, “Small Town & Big Guo”, and “Platforms”. Based on two basic elements of the landscape morphology: Wall and Platform, it analyzes their causes and functional roles, points out that the main Wall was a symbol of the territory of the Holy Land, and the role of Platform was to separate the God and the Earth, assembling the power to communicate the world to a very small number of people. It further reveals that the essence of the city is the power center. Thus, the city as the main carrier of human social material civilization and spiritual culture, its cultural connotation behind the material morphology is far greater than the practical function. Whether it was a local power center should be the basis to determine the origin of the city.
向岚麟，陈康琳，尹伟. 从景观要素看中外城市起源时期的形态及内涵[J]. 新建筑, 2017, 35(6): 103-107.
XIANG Lanlin,CHEN Kanglin,YIN Wei. Urban Morphology and Connotation of City Origins in China and Abroad. New Architecture, 2017, 35(6): 103-107.
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