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In literal sense, the traditional wetland settlement indicates a historical habitat with clearly environment-responsive characteristics. This is most notable in the case of Shagou, a historical town lying in a wetland of the Lixiahe region. During the complicated evolution of the hydrological environment in the Lixiahe region, the boundary and configuration of the spatial form of Shagou have consistently changed in the span of over 2000 years. The evidence first comes in the form of a land elevating from a shallow bay which is originating from the Yellow Sea, around 2500 years ago (the Warring States Period). And one group that was well adapted to the unique environment settled down. Based on this resilient topography-responsive form, the habitat experienced significant growth phases. About 1800 ago, the bay transformed into a lagoon and suffered the desalination, which resulting in an emergence of plots of lands. The size of the habitat expanded from one island to a cluster of islands and advanced into the stationary state around 400 years ago (the Ming Dynasty). However, the morphological changes are not simply a continuous result of natural force, but also a product of social construction, sometimes even radically presented. Benefited from its location on the heartland of the Lixiahe region, Abstract. The Lixiahe region, a low-lying wetland located to the eastern side of the Huaiyang section of the Grand Canal, is characterized by a complex hydrological environment and has changed slowly in the urbanization process. The historical town of Shagou, a representative case of island settlements in this region, has a recorded history of continuous morphological change over six hundred years. Regarding Shagou as a cultural-geographical entity, this article aims at combining morphological analysis and narrative-based cognitive mapping to reveal the characteristic townscape that strongly depends on cultural-geographic complexity. Based on survey work, this article will first define distinguishable plan elements that underpin the spatial form of Shagou: 1) natural context; 2) streets system, and then investigate diachronically different phases of the formation of its spatial structure. On the other hand, based on archiving and data analysis of the oral history study, this article will generate a narrative cognitive map, in terms of paths, nodes, landmarks and areas. In conjunction with fieldwork and documentary records, this study testifies that the method derived from the plan analysis developed by Conzen is applicable to the study of wetland island settlement form in China and that narrative spatial analysis provides important supplemental spatial information. A careful combination of these methods might be used for understanding culturally embedded settlement forms in China.

A Study of Chinese Traditional Wetland Island Settlement Combining Morphological and Narrative Analyses