兰白地区明清时期城市地理分析-历史地理学专业论文.docx

PAGE PAGE IV Abstract Lying in the center of Gansu Province, the area of Lanzhou and Baiyin’s short name is “Lanbai” Area, through which goes the Yellow River. Lanbai Area’s specific geographic position contributes to several ferries, which come in to being as cities gradually with the military, economic, and traffic development. The city system of Lanbai Area in Ming and Qing Dynasties mentioned in this paper refers to the county center during that historic period, and it includes not only Lanzhou, Yuzhong, Yongdeng, Jinyuan, Huining those big cities, but also the corresponding countrysides, villages, counties, and stagecoaches. This paper consists of six chapters in total. The first chapter mainly introduces the geographic bases and characteristics, and holds the viewpoint that the specific geographic position determines Lanbai Area’s consanguineous relation with Silk Road, and causes the Yellow River to be its shaft, and Silk Road to be line. The second chapter discusses cities’ function in the order of dynasty. Furthermore, this chapter analyses the reasons that lead to changes of cities’ function, and arrives at the conclusion that those changes of this area in Ming and Qing Dynasties exert great and long influence on cities. The third chapter focuses on the county in cities’ system in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and respectively interprets countrysides, villages, counties, and stagecoaches, and researches on their spacious distribution. Through the research on the scale of this area’s population and its cities, the fourth chapter describes a clear picture of cities’ development scale in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and thinks that there are corresponding relations between the scope of population, and cities in this area. For the fifth chapter which mainly discusses Ming and Qing Dynasties’ urban format in this area, whose change and development have a major feature named as historical inheritance. Cities of this area in Ming and Qing Dynasties are built and repair