City Street Landscape Design

Street is the frame of a city. It not only reflects a city statue of politic, economic and culture, but also is the core of a city image and landscape. As the development of economic and the change of peoples life style and idea, the street have taken the role of inherent of the traditional culture and satisfy the peoples aesthetic requirement besides the function of taking on transportation. But in fact, under the limitation of economic or idea, the street still can work well in term with the above lists. The paper has discussed the construction of city street from the angle of landscape, concerning a few aspects such as the history and culture, ecology protection, the psychology of environment, the design concepts, administration mechanism and so on, aim to do something benefit to the practice of project. Four parts can mainly divide the paper: The first part has discussed the definition and importance of city street landscape as well exploring the course of its development and evolution, at the same time, the status question and the reason of the city street landscape in our countiy has also been analyzed. In the second part, the paper has made a address of the content of city street landscape design from the aspects of human need, history and culture, ecology and environment, etc. on the other hand the principles which should be followed in design and the criterion for post-construction evaluation also be discussed. The third part has made a series of exploration of the main points involved in city street landscape design by the way of combining with the reality. Then a deep research was made from the viewpoints of behavior psychology, the visual experience. The fourth has oppugned the system of city street construction that is applied in current time. At last some advises has been put forward based on the reference of advanced experience that comes from abroad.