Consisting of cave-dwelling groups, rising and falling with topographical undulation, the earth-scape presents typical villages form and settlement scape on loess plateau. Under the reform of modern social economy, such landscape is rapidly disappearing from loess plateau and from people s memory. The strategy to preserve loess plateau village form and the relevant earth scape with permanent appeal should lay stress on the remodeling of traditional village for modern adaptability and dealing with contradiction betwe...
