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Multi-Level Housing Governance in Rural Settlement Lin & Jia

Figure 1. Location of the Xiaqiao Village, Zhejiang Province, China. Source: Drawings by the author

Figure 2. Transformation of settlement patterns. Source: Drawings by the author

3. HOUSING TRANSFORMATIONS and its surrounding built environment. Thus,
ON DIFFERENT LEVELS the term of neighborhood here is used to
3.1 Neighborhood level define the buildings that obviously belong to
The neighborhood level is the first level a certain cluster.
focusing on building. In this level, the The two houses, OTH and SSCH, are
combination of one group of buildings is the built in different periods of the Qing dynasty.
research object. It explores how a building co- They both belong to the category of
exist and interact with its neighborhood. It traditional dwellings. Thus, they share similar
reflects the radical root of lifestyle and living features of courtyard houses, following
mode. The neighborhood level is used to similar rules of traditional construction
discuss the relationship between a building system. However, due to the different

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