On The Originality Of The Modern City Landscape Design In China

With the syncretism of global cultures and the flourish of urbanization, a crisis of "all cities with similar appearance" and "nondescript" emerges in the city landscape in China. The cities, which used to develop independently with distinct local cultures, currently become blurred in terms of their local features. Nowadays, the main earmarks of city identity as are embodied by the landscape and buildings are dissolved by the foreign style fashion. The homogenization of city cultures results in the fade-out of city cultural peculiarity. Traditional cities forged their appearance by means of regional cultural features that functioned as the soul of city landscape and building design. The question, how to develop the new cultural characteristics for the modern city landscape and buildings based on inheriting the traditions, has become a global topic widely discussed by the political celebrities and experts in the field of city construction development and design.This paper advocates the value orientation towards originality, regarding the local original culture, the local original economy and the local original landscape as the value prop point, suggesting the compliance with local conditions when analyzing the place information and snatching the place spirit and exploring the demand for the landscape design aesthetical nature by the modern city development of China and the elements and theories of design pursuit in order that it will alleviate and cure the prevalence of city landscape homogenization. By analyzing the status quo of Chinese city landscape, the factors and history of city landscape evolution, and by researching and comparing with the Western landscape design, the connotation of originality and the methods of modern city landscape design are discoursed upon and analyzed from three perspectives such as aesthetics, sociology and ecology.Xi Li (Art & Design) Directed by: Zhou Shu...