Abstract: Guilin's urban water bodies, landscape architecture and their correlation through the ages have displayed distinctive characteristics and abundant information. Throughout history, urban water bodies served military, political, and economic functions as well as established leisure and sightseeing activities, affecting the spatial distribution of landscape architecture in different aspects. Many landscape architecture–related studies have been conducted on landscapes or mountains of Guilin. As a result, this research aims to investigate the spatial distribution characteristics of landscape architecture in Guilin during different historical periods from the perspective of water bodies. It also systematically assesses the distribution and association characteristics of urban water bodies and landscape architecture in subsequent generations. Moreover, this study contemplates the primaeval wisdom of the ancient landscape habitat environment and examines the landscape architecture's spatial distribution response to the evolution of urban water bodies in successive generations.
　　This research focusses on the degree of correlation between urban water bodies and landscape architecture along with their spatial distribution in Guilin over the ages, covering the period from the Tang Dynasty to modern times. It uses the environmental control area of Guilin's central landscape city as the study area. With the support of data from local chronicles, planning documents, published books, papers and field research, the study applies the methods of historical information translation, fragmentation index analysis, density analysis and spatial autocorrelation to explore the spatial distribution of urban water bodies and landscape architecture in Guilin over time. It evaluates the spatial distribution law of urban water bodies, landscape architecture and the urban characteristics created by various interactions.
　　The results demonstrate that: (1) the evolution of urban water bodies in Guilin has profoundly affected the spatial layout of landscape architecture. In previous generations, the spatial distribution pattern of 'one axis and many rings' was formed by the city water bodies in Guilin. The landscape architecture in Guilin is characterised by the spatial distribution pattern of 'multi-core agglomeration'. Moreover, the high-density agglomeration area of the landscape architecture in the past generations has constantly shifted on both sides of the Li River. The rest of the multi-core is primarily distributed in the periphery of the city water bodies, reflecting the spatial distribution pattern of water bodies and landscape architecture. The rest of the nuclei are mainly scattered around the urban water bodies, demonstrating the evident impact of water bodies on the landscape architecture. (2) The landscape architecture distribution in Guilin over time generally exhibits considerable hydrophilic characteristics. In addition to the significant negative correlation between urban water bodies and the spatial distribution of landscape architecture in Guilin in the Yuan Dynasty, the correlation between the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties and the modern era of the Republic of China is significantly positive, indicating that the distribution of landscape architecture in the past generations, in general, depicts significant hydrophilic features. The degree of its correlation can be divided into four historical periods with the characteristics of ‘rising–declining–fluctuating–rising–rising'. The degree of correlation can be divided into four historical periods characterised by ’rising–falling–fluctuating–rising–rising'. (3) The local correlation between the spatial distribution of urban water bodies and scenic buildings in Guilin has apparent differences and similarities. From the overall point of view of the study period, the degree of interaction between urban water bodies and landscape architecture in Guilin underwent obvious alterations. The number and range of hotspot agglomerations depict a fluctuating growth trend. Still, they are mainly concentrated and distributed in the urban areas centred on West Lake, Seven Star Mountain and the east bank of Guihu Lake, among others. The range of distribution of the sub-coldspots has gradually increased but is always primarily concentrated and distributed in Moon Pool and Seven Star Mountain areas. Changes in the local spatial correlation reflect the significant response of landscape architecture distribution to the evolution of urban water bodies in successive generations.
　　With respect to the development characteristics of urban water bodies and landscape architecture in Guilin and their interrelationships, there is an overall trend of decreased area for urban water bodies, an increased number of landscape architecture, and a gradual diffusion of the concentration of the two from the central part of the study area to the outer part of the city. The positive and good symbiotic relationship between the two abovementioned factors has persisted through all historical periods, thus shaping the ancient wisdom in Guilin's urban history and constructing a model of the traditional urban pattern of organic integration of the mountain–water–city. The research results provide a useful example of Guilin's leisure and vacation industry. These findings generate novel ideas for the transformation of Guilin's leisure and vacation tourism era and the expansion of Guilin’s new tourism space, as well as the scientific revelation of the laws of urban development and references for the planning and research of similar landscape cities and development of Guilin as a world-class tourism city.

Key words: urban water bodies, landscape architecture, spatial associations, historical geography

摘要： 桂林历代的城市水体和风景建筑及其关联性具备典型特点和丰富信息。基于现存城市基础资料，运用历史信息转译法、水体破碎度和密度分析法探究城市水体和风景建筑空间分布特征，并以空间自相关分阶段研究两者空间分布的关联程度。结果表明：两者的空间分布分别呈现出“一轴多环”和“多核集聚”的分布特征；风景建筑的分布受到城市水体的影响，在唐宋、元、明清、民国时期和现代四个阶段表现为“上升-下降-波动上升-上升”的波浪式发展特征；桂林风景建筑空间分布对城市水体历代演变的响应特征，展现出古人的山水人居环境营建智慧，以期为桂林建设世界级旅游城市提供参考。

关键词: 城市水体, 风景建筑, 空间关联, 历史地理