Study Of Featured Towns' Landscape Planning And Practice

In July 2016,Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other two ministries released an official announce and guide to promote featured smalltown's development.Then in the following first list,127 small towns are selected from all the nation,in which many of them are tourist-related or tourist-based small town.For those tourist-based towns,landscape planning could firstly influence the basic environment,biology and economy.Customers are sensitive to landscape as it is an index of tourism quality.Hence,landscape planning is cardinal to marketing,promoting local industries and pleasing local residents.Moreover,as featured small town is after all unique feature place,it needs localized landscape to enhance its unique identity,which is what the central government requires and wish to achieve in the announce.In this study,the author focuses on Suzhou,a representative region with featured local industries and many covered small towns.How to promote the development of featured small towns with the help of featured landscape planning is the key content in this paper.It will be helpful to offer theoretical foundation and practical experience based on one of the Suzhou's featured small town-Wangting.Through literature reviews,field study,questionnaire,the author investigates the related theories and applies them into Wangting case.It is clear that only by merging historical,local and human-oriented principals in natural and artificial landscape planning,the goals to promote featured small towns' development could be achieved.