A Study Of How Landscape Lighting Design Beautifies A City

City landscape lighting design is a marriage of the lighting technology and landscape design. It is to decorate the landscape using lighting technology. Appealing aesthetically to the general public, it can also be an expression of condensed, exaggerated, and artistic life style.China is a history of 5,000 years of ancient civilization can test, far away in the Warring States period, the ancients had to use oil lamps lighting, with light signals to transmit information, has been hanging in the house before the night lighting, this should be the earliest human history, the lighting, but also Lighting predecessor. To the Tang Dynasty, the first month lantern has been developed as a social and cultural phenomenon, and has become a traditional heritage, the Millennium does not weaken. Ancient Chinese cultural phenomenon caused by the lantern on the formation and night city beautification, and economic development have played an important role in promoting human important chapter in the history of landscape lighting.City landscape design is a natural evolution from the traditional city lighting design following city development, economic development and technology improvement. It is now a symbol of a city's openness, civilization, romance, and beauty. It has become an essential component of a city landscape design.During a city landscape design project, a designer implements based on the requirement of overall design, i.e., it is to implement a hardware system using lighting and lighting control technology. This hardware system is the expression and conveyance of the designer's idea. They key to city landscape lighting design is this hardware system and expression of the design.In this article, the author discussed in details about how landscape lighting design can beautify the city, based on his hands-on experience designing the city landscape lighting for the Youth Street in Shenyang, China. He has also presented his unique standpoint on the trends of future landscape lighting design.In Preface and Chapter One, the author has discussed the importance of how landscape lighting design could change and beautify the city's overall landscape through case study. One of the key factor in the design is to consider how to use panorama or partial view. The author has also discussed the achievement and point of view of his domestic and international peers. In Chapter Two, the author has included a discussion of fundamentals of landscape lighting design and the importance of landscape lighting design in beautifying city views. Chapter Three is the core chapter of this article, in which, the author has analyzed in details on how the Youth Street landscape lighting project has been designed, implemented, and tested. Chapter Four has covered common problems and pitfalls in landscape lighting design based on his 3 years of graduate study and working experience. Chapter Five is to look into the future of landscape lighting design We hope this article will provide insights and useful information to other landscape lighting design engineers and artists.