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Figure 3. Transformation of neighborhoods (3-1 Neighborhood of OTH; 3-2 Neighborhood of SSCH). Source:
Drawings by the author
conditions of land and different requirement fragmented houses built by small
of families, in the neighborhood level, the two families moving out from the big house,
buildings show different features [Figure 3]. four complete courtyard houses occupy
(i) General situation the field of Nanshan. Besides, this field
Due to the increasing built density, the is mostly developed during the late Qing
spare spaces around OTH have been dynasty to the early Republican period.
encroached into small buildings, and After several big houses have occupied
most of them are residential. Due to the the area, new movers can only build their
ownership of homestead, most buildings houses in other fields outside this
around OTH belong to different families neighborhood.
of the Tang lineage. There is only one (ii) Entrance
plot that is still owned by the Houchi (后 For the neighborhood of OTH, along
池 rear pond) Lin lineage. The general with the increase of new buildings, new
situation of the neighborhood alleys were created spontaneously by
surrounding OTH inherited the features dividing buildings, and more entrances
from the settlement level. appear along these alleys. But the
The situation of SSCH is different entrances were not set randomly. Instead,
from that of OTH. Instead of a complete the entrances are always kept in the same
plain on the riverbank, SSCH is located orientation. The direction to go inside the
on the slope of the Nanshan Mountain. building or building group is from west
The area of the suitable lands that are to east.
rather flat for construction is limited. It The entrances of all the houses in
limits the scale of construction and the the neighborhood of the SSCH mainly
quantity of houses there. Instead of small depend on the orientation of mountains.
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