小城镇是介于城市聚落和乡村聚落之间的一种过渡性社区。
The small town is a transitional residence between urban cluster and rural cluster.
由此产生的聚落地图显示，公元500年至公元850年，科潘古城崩溃时，城市周围农村人口的分布和密度发生了巨大变化。
The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD 500 and 850, when copán collapsed.
南大河州首府愉港市拥有一些长期建立的非裔黑人聚落，他们都住在这个城市里。
Porto Alegre, the capital of Mr Lorenzoni’s state, has some long-established quilombola groups who live in the city itself.
在中国城市史上，城是指构筑了防御性设施的聚落，但它不等同于一般的军事城堡。
In the history of Chinese cities, a walled-city is not just a military castle but a settlement with defensive works.
城市是区域范围内各种要素的中心，是历史形成的一种有别于乡村的高级聚落。
A city is the center of different key elements in a regional scope, and is the senior settlement that is different from the village in its history.
对本学科而言，研究传统聚落是对传统城市、建筑营建思想与方法的发掘、借鉴和运用，因此具有重要的理论价值和实践意义。
For our subject, studying traditional settlement is an exploration and inheritance to traditional architectural thoughts and methods, and hence have important theoretic and practical significance.
一般可将聚落分为乡村和城市两大类。
Commonly we compartmentalize settlement two types: village and city.
到目前为止，建筑设计、建筑史学和城市规划的学者对于晋北乡村、城镇聚落的研究还是很有限的。
So far, from scholars of architectural design, architectural historian and urban planning, studies of rural and town settlements are still very limited in the northern Shanxi Province.
城市化进程的快速推进给城市空间带来显著变化的同时，也对乡村聚落空间产生了不同程度的冲击和影响。
Rapid urbanization not only brings significant changes in urban space, but also has different influences on rural settlement space.
在夏商周文明发祥的中原地区，诸多龙山城址已具早期城市性质，并形成了以城址为中心、明显具有不稳定性和对抗性特点的扇形聚落群布局结构。
In Central Plain, the birthplace of Xia, Shang and Zhou civilizations, many walled-town sites in Longshan Period have provided with the qualities of early city.
在城市化的进程中，江苏乡村聚落的表现模式也开始表现出城市化的影响。
The representation patterns of rural settlements system also had been influenced by the urbanization from 1980's on.
城市起源的过程就是聚落中心功能逐渐增强的过程；
With their central functions improving, cities came into being.
城市作为人类聚落的一种方式，是一个社会有机体。
City, a way of mankind to gather and settle down, is actually an organic system of society.
城市作为人类聚落的一种方式，是一个社会有机体。
City, a way of mankind to gather and settle down, is actually an organic system of society.
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