Research on Nanjing Ancient Urban Morphology Evolution Based on Climate Adaptability

Abstract

Evolution mechanisms and rules of urban morphology were explored mostly from cultural, historical and geographical aspects, but rarely from the aspect of climate adaptability. From the aspect of historical geography, the transition of the Nanjing city came out as the layout changes of the natural and social phenomenon, and combined with the gambling and impelling of the relationship between the human and the nature. The research takes the ancient Nanjing city as an example to analysis the climate adaptability from the site selection and change of the urban morphology., the change of site selection and urban river system were caused by the climatic change, which aroused the continuous change of the urban morphology.