With the the development of urbanization,eological city construction and landscape urbanism,a lot of new downtown are built in places next to water,so usually water is one important factor of new downtown construction. Accordingly, the waterfront landscape planning and design is also referred to a new height. This paper mainly focus on designing from the angle of the new downtown to upgrade the city image.The author park in the access to a large number of new downtown construction and waterfront landscape design theory and projects, then focus on the planning and design of the new downtown river. The Specific characteristics of river design in new downtown is first studied, including the advantages and disadvantages, expounds the importance of the river planning and design. Then points out the design principles, such as holistic design, regional design, coordination among other city plans, sustainable design and so on. On this basis, the paper researches in shaping the image of city with river design and the intergration of flood design and landscape design, summarizes on the methods and means. The final part is a combine of theory and practice, mainly an introduction of the density and landscape quatity of the Xinjiang river in Yingtan Xiabu new downtown. The project shows on how to realize the ecological design, spread the specific city history and culture, and the intergration of flood and landscape design from the angle of city style and image. |