Introductlon
Architecture and Coevolutionary Rural-Urban FOrm:
Persistence,Uniqueness and Rewriting
1 Understanding the Structural Reasons of the Settlement
Fenghuang’s Inland Port between Geog raphic Factors,Fengshui and Myth
Sheet 7:Interpretation of the Location and Pattern of Fenghuang Town from the Perspective of Fengshui
2 The Paradox of the Designation to‘Famous Historical and Cultural Town’as a Threat to Heritage,Layered Morphologies and Landscape
The Definition of‘Famous Historical and Cultural Towns’
Re-Urbanising the Countryside
The Designation to‘Famous Historical and Cultu ral Town’as a Threat:Analysing Background and Scenario of Current Planning
Sheet 2:Changes in Land Use in Ru ral Areas
3 Historic Space and the Space of History
The Original-Authentic and Memory—-Nostalgia Antinomy
Forgetting Memory:Re—Historicization and the Issue of the Original Style
4 Reading and Decoding the Historical Palimpsest:
Types,Morphotypes and Latent Structure
Historic Space and Space of History:Analysing Fenghuang’s Historical Sources
Context as an Archive of the F0rms of History
The Structu re of the Context:Urban Studies and Urban Signification of the OId
The Narrow Courtyard Type as the Structuring Invariant of Morphology
Reading Morphological and Topographical Traces:an Urban Anatomy to Decode the Latent Structure
Sheet 3:Regional Influences on Fenghuang Courtyard Type along the Old CommerciaI Roads
5 Latent Structure and Morphotypes:
the Complex Unity of Architecture,Morphology and Landscape
Landscape as a Context of Structures:The Interaction between Forma Urbis and Forma Agri
Methodology as a Descriptive Language:Stratigraphic Readings and Interpretative Mapping
Form and Writing of the G round:Historicised Rural Landscape Structure as Heritage and Figure
Fenghuang’s Five Landscapes:Morphological Semantic Units and Composite Landscape Units
6 The Enhancement Strategy:
Re-Signification,Re-Structuring and Re-MorphoIOgisation
Cultural and Slow Tourism as a Resource:a Heritage—Led Strategy
Enhancing Latent Structures and Morphological Semantic Units in an Integrated,Protection,Revitalization and Design Strategy
The Multi—Scalar Design for an Integrated Plan.Project:the Mise en Forme of Landscape as an Organism-Figure
First Principles and Criteria for a Plan Integrating Preservation,Revitalisation and Design Enhancement
7 Layering Morphologies and Architectural Rewriting:Problem-Areas and Pilot Projects
The Morphotype:Conservation,Grafting and Overwriting
The Lacuna and Fragment:between Rewriting,Critical ReinterpretatiOn and Urban Voids
The Infilh Rewriting of Inappropriate Buildings
The New Prototypes:between Preservation and Remodelling of Ru ral Landscaoe
Problem-Areas and Pilot Projects
Appendix:Architectural Components
Bibliography