Study On The Urban Post-industrial Landscape

The urban post-industrial landscape studied in this dissertation is an organic part of the post-industrial era landscape, which is founded on the specific site that has gone through many ages transformation and abounding with both industrial cultural and material resources and can make the best of intrinsic resources such as constructions, buildings, machineries, and establishment etc. Its recreational quality and distinguishing connotation of industrial culture attract the attention of more and more people because the environment has been transformed into a landscape full of memorial recreational sites by combined new scientific and cultural techniques. As a new type of landscape, it generates and develops in the social background of reconstruction and recycling of industrial derelicts but the discussion of the urban post-industrial landscape is just in the first step comparing with speedy warming up of gardens construction in China. So there is an urgent and realistic need to analyze theory and methodology of the planning and designing of the urban post-industrial landscape.On the basis of the analyzing of relevant concepts, the concepts and study ranges of the urban post-industrial landscape are discussed and fixed. Urban post-industrial landscape is also a necessity in the exploration urban industrial derelicts when the naissance and development of urban industrial derelicts are concerned. Urban industrial derelicts have provided with the physical base and destined the unique character of urban post-industrial landscape even from the day it came into being, namely the contradiction and complexity of the site. When the spiritual reason of its generation and development are concerned, urban post-industrial landscape, as a new type of landscape, has become a complex of multiple value concepts, coming down to ecology, culture, art as well as society and economy etc. Moreover, the development of urban post-industrial landscape in western society is reviewed; the deficiencies in the concepts of planning and design of urban post-industrial landscape and the realistic situation of development in China are pointed out. Three essential processes, which can control the methods of urban post-industrial landscape planning and design, are proposed in three layers, namely "the value concepts transformation– scientific method utilization– new technological support". The methods of the three processes are also tested by practices.