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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism The making of the Chinese urban landscape

Figure 1. A theoretical and methodological framework for the Chinese urban landscape. Source: Diagram by the authors.

3.2. Morphogenetic-generative study of buildings and urban tissue and establish a convincing
A morphogenetic-generative study seeks explanations for interpretation of the morphogenetic process in a cultural
the ways in which spatial structure is primarily produced context. The morphogenetic approach to the evolution
and changed. The fundamental purpose of morphogenetic- of built forms conceptualizes the built environment as
generative analysis is to reveal the progressive transformation a complex, dynamic system of interrelated elements

Volume 6 Issue 3 (2024) 7 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.261