Based on landscape planning theory, this paper chooses riverside towns in Hangjiahu area as the specific object of study. It has discussed the assessment of characteristics of landscape and the methods of spatial design for Riverside Towns in Southern China. This article starts with a comprehensive and in-depth investigation on normal landscape conditions in the research area, such as social economic situation, psychology and orientation of values of the residents, as well as the destruction of the resources in scenery spots. Then this article takes Xitang, a typical town in Jiashan, as the main research object. According to the theory of landscape ecology and new theory of landscape planning, on the base of the latest study on city landscape quality all over the world, we take landscape culture in China into consideration and have creatively advanced type analysis of landscape quality. Taking geometry structural analogue method, analysis landscape spatial network structure, visual section form, landscape elements and their arrangement rule, detail characteristics in particular, using landscape planning as the main analytical tool, we analyze and assess the traditional landscape quality in Xitang in a thorough way. After that, this article takes riverside towns in Hangjiahu Area as a larger-scale study area, compares and analyzes of the coherence and diversity of the landscape among towns in this area. Then we take the function of different town streets as study point and anatomize the corresponding landscape structure and landscape space thoroughly. Finally, from cultural ecology and the criterion of cultural value and the functional need of town of the landscape quality, and on the base of landscape quality assessment and the analysis of sites, function and structure, with the aid of social survey and from the direction of city designing, we explore the theory and method of spatial design on the sustainable development of riverside towns in the future. |