The Capital of the Yuan (Yuan Dadu, 元大都) was a newly planned city of the 13th century in China. The famous architectural historian Liang Sicheng (梁思成) called it “the incomparable masterpiece of capital planning”. The planning of the Yuan Palace City (Yuan Danei, 元大内, the core of Yuan Dadu) demonstrates the application of a combination of traditional technologies, such as locating the central axis according to surrounding environmental elements, and arranging the plan through the use of rules and compasses. This article analyzes the construction sequence, planning scale, centering and plane layout of the Yuan Palace City, and reveals the generation logic of its planning from the perspective of tools and techniques.
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