Valley-floor streets
The main roads follow narrow valleys through the hills, so the district appears as long, branching ribbons of streets instead of a compact block.
Minimalist map poster · China
35.1152° N / 109.0970° E
An old mining district threaded through narrow loess valleys, its streets following the valley floors in the hills north of Xi'an.

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The map
Yintai is one of the older urban districts of Tongchuan, a prefecture-level city in the hills north of Xi'an, on the southern edge of the Loess Plateau. The district grew with coal mining in the second half of the twentieth century, and its layout follows the terrain very closely: streets run along narrow valley floors, and buildings climb the lower slopes wherever the ground allows.
From above, the result is a linear city rather than a grid. Roads, a railway line and river channels run together in the valley bottoms, splitting and rejoining where valleys meet, and the built-up area forms long ribbons between steep, eroded hillsides. The loess terraces and gullies around the district leave broad blank areas that make the street pattern look almost like a river system itself.
As mining declined, Tongchuan has worked to reshape itself, planting bare slopes and developing newer areas further south. A Yintai map poster records the older valley city, a place whose form was dictated by coal and ridgelines, and it suits people with family ties to the mines or anyone drawn to maps where terrain rather than planning sets the shape.
The main roads follow narrow valleys through the hills, so the district appears as long, branching ribbons of streets instead of a compact block.
Steep, eroded slopes of the Loess Plateau enclose the built area on both sides, leaving wide empty spaces that frame the linear street pattern.
Coal gave the district its purpose, and the way settlement stretches along the valleys still reflects the mining areas that first drew people here.
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Why Yintai
Maps of mining towns tend to be personal rather than grand, and Yintai is no exception. For families who worked the coal seams or grew up in the valley estates, its ribbon of streets between the hills is instantly familiar and makes a meaningful gift.
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Order the Yintai poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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