A Study On Urban River Course Landscape Architecture

The urban river course keeps developing and changing as well as society and city. Various severce pureposes of the river course exsit under various society backgrounds. The urban river course's research is an eternal topic. Urban flood prevention is the important task which the urban river course must undertake. In all previous dynasties, urban streamside is the opimal place for entertainment and commercial trade. As a result of social industrialization and urbanization, human living enviorment is in the unprecedented crisis. Each kind of urban functions got illness, including urban river course, which has became a lost corner. Healthy and joyful urban river course landscape will contribute to socicial and city's development and construction.At present, China city river course landscape' s construction had some unprecedented progress. However, those constructions are mainly focus on urban flood prevention and commercial trade. It is an only seeming "Make up" transformation and lack of consideration on ecology and humanity. As a result, urban illness could not be cured.In view of present situations, this paper will mainly discuss as below:To propose urban river course landscape's related concepts; to dissertate urban river course ladscape' s origin, classification, function and the landscape characteristic; to summarize the domestic and foreign urban river course landscape construction and the research progress; to pointed out China urban river course landscape construction issues, reason and trend via using foreign related researn and experience; taking ecology, sociology and behavior psychology as the rationales to discusse the urban river course landscape characteristic, principle and details; selecting the domestic and foreign outstanding urban river course landscape construction examplse as objects of this study, to validate urban river course landscape construction developing trend; to propose practical suggestions on China urban river course landscape construction to be reference in future work.