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Study of Vernacular Dwellings and Settlement Renewal

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Each type of vernacular dwelling has its regional and ethnic characteristics. The structural composition of types is derived from people’s production and life needs. It involves many aspects of nature and humanity in the material and morphological characteristics of space and construction, which show the different styles under different actions of various aspects.

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Fan, X., Wang, Z. (2016). Study of Vernacular Dwellings and Settlement Renewal. In: Wang, F., Prominski, M. (eds) Urbanization and Locality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48494-4_9

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