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Shanshui-Informed Digital Rural Planning:Modular Aesthetic-Spatial Mapping with GISEcological Analytics

Under rapid urbanization, rural planning in China is often driven by functional efficiency, contributing to ecological fragmentation and landscape homogenization. This paper proposes a modular digital planning framework coupling quantified shanshui (Chinese landscape aesthetics) parameters with GIS-based ecological analytics. Traditional landscape paintings are treated as visual proxies for cultural spatial cognition. Computer vision extracts spatial-organizational principles, formalized as an aesthetic-spatial mapping matrix translating compositional rules into computable ecological constraints and spatial weights. The framework guides the generation of ecological, productive, residential, and cultural modules. A case study in Wufeng Village demonstrates improved ecological performance, landscape-visual quality, and service accessibility relative to a baseline scenario, indicating a reproducible pathway for embedding cultural principles as generative rules in performance-driven planning.

Autor / Author: Luo, Tingjun; Li, Yitian
Institution / Institution: Southeast University, Jiangsu/China; Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Shaanxi/China
Seitenzahl / Pages: 12
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Veröffentlichung / Publication: JoDLA – Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 11-2026
Tagung / Conference: Digital Landscape Architecture 2026 – Cutting Edge
Veranstaltungsort, -datum / Venue, Date: University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland 28-05-26 - 29-05-26
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Keywords (en): Aesthetic-spatial mapping,GIS ecological analytics, modular design, digital rural planning, shanshui
Paper review type: Full Paper Review
DOI: doi:10.14627/537770070
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