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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Learning from the countryside

Figure 3. Marketing communities’ areas in Huiyang. Source: Meriggi, 2018, p. 108

“Confucian academies,” which can be found in specific model also explain other cases in the hinterland of city
buildings in weilong houses and villages. These academics regions in China?
served as training grounds for the local administrators of
imperial bureaucracy (Meriggi, 2018). Their presence here 2. Research method: Mapping and
illustrates how, in traditional settlements, the “rural” also designing the Chinese urban-rural
encompassed aspects of the “urban.” continuum for the green city of the future
In these lines, we have provided a synthetic description
of the historical-geographical and economic model of The cases presented here include a brief description of
the territorial structure of the Chinese countryside. This the design approach adopted in Huiyang (Meriggi, 2015,
description stems from our research and design program, 2017; Chen et al., 2023) and the attempt to apply a similar
which was based on the following scientific questions: to methodology based on Skinner’s model of understanding
what extent can the Chinese “urban-rural continuum” the Chinese urban-rural continuum to two other cases of
we observed in Huiyang and Huizhou, both as an hybrid landscapes in China’s city region rural hinterland
analytical method and a design approach, be beneficial – the Pidu district in the Chengdu metropolitan area and
for contemporary development? To what extent can this Kandun town in the Ningbo metropolitan area.

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