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System of Landscape Pattern Language

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It is an outline blueprint of landscape pattern language, which reflects a new framework of landscape cognition and shaping. The theory and method of landscape spatial reasoning and pattern vocabulary could be acquired through learning, accumulation, integration, and innovation to foster the design language including vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. As the internal logic of landscape pattern language, the logical relationship of space unit organization such as locality, scalability, temporality, order, modification, and rhetoric works as the rules in spatial process, in which locality and universality are both key attributes of landscape pattern language. Landscape pattern language should be researched with systematical methods of structuralism, deconstructionism, and self-organized synergetic theory, and the pattern language system is constructed systematically through the selection and processing of typical samples, extraction, and analysis of vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. Landscape pattern language is verified from two dimensions of practice application and teaching application.

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Wang, Y. (2022). System of Landscape Pattern Language. In: Landscape Pattern Language. EcoWISE. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6430-5_5

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