Traditional Landscape Design Elements And Caracteristic Images Of City

On the basis of inheriting traditional means of artistic expression and design thinking, the construction of modern landscape in line with the requirement of modern society is the common point between modern landscape practice of China and Western countries. Excellent, historic and cultural city landscape will add beautiful symbol and pleasure to city image and city life, and also improve the comprehensive competitiveness of a city. Especially in China with vast territory, numerous nationalities, strong historic and cultural accumulation, city landscape should have much more connotation to explore. Other than blindly imitate and duplicate identical space images to create pale city landscape and city imagery, we should create a city landscape abundant in local color and cultural imagination . It can be foreseen that landscape works featuring traditional connotation can even more enrich our city; otherwise, those without historic and cultural basis often have no vitality.In the process of urban design, the method of image analysis can induce designers to understand design objects in the mode of cognition of human inner heart and analyze how the human being and the environment interact, so as to boost the identifiability and order of the environment. A clear image can make each part of a city bring their roles in better play, so as to provide an accurate information framework to people's daily life. The image of a city, besides the indication of directions in the space, should also contain a human meaning, and the analysis of it will give the landscape design much more humanism. City space induces imagery due to visual stimulation, when traditional landscapes play an important role in the imagery of areas, streets and nodes of a modern city, the construction of modern landscape can also learn, inherit and innovate these traditional symbols, and strengthen the visual feeling of residents and tourists about the historic and cultural charm of the city space, so that a lively impression about the city is thus generated. While such impression will also, according to the level of aesthetic appreciation of a person, produce different macro recognition about the city, so that the sharp-cut features of the city are revealed.The article, from a historic and cultural angle, discusses the formation, inheritance and innovation of traditional language of landscape. It begins with the formation of city image, and then the relation between the language of landscape and the "place" as the basis of city image, and the influence of such relation on special image of a city. At last, the article has a detailed classification of how to apply traditional language of landscape in different city places (area, street, node and landmark).