SPATIAL HARMONIZATION OF VILLAGE IN SCENIC AREA: A CASE STUDY OF LONGJING VILLAGE IN THE WEST LAKE SCENIC AREA

Apart from being a residential place, the village in the scenic area is also part of the scenery.Consequently, it substantially differs from ordinary villages in spatial organization, economic structure, social relation, etc.By examining Longjing Village which is located in the West Lake Scenic Area in Hangzhou, this paper tends to analyze the evolution features in terms of land use, construction space, transport facilities, and social network.The paper also summarizes the contradictions between "village" and "scenery", and proposes the strategies that are aimed at the re-harmonization of "village" and "scenery", in the hope of facilitating the coordinated spatial development of the village and the West Lake Scenic Area and providing reference for the preservation and development of other residential communities in scenic areas.