Research on Landscape System of Traditional Living Environment in Jingzhou

With the aid of the research method of land landscape,on the basis of briefly analyzing the construction process of regional traditional living environment in Jingzhou,a hierarchical analysis of the regional landscape system was carried out from the aspects of natural landscape,water conservancy construction,agricultural production and urban construction,and the overall pattern of traditional living environment landscape system in Jingzhou was summarized to provide new ideas for the exploration of landscape system.In view of the many problems in the current urban development of Jingzhou,the enlightenment of traditional human settlement experience and wisdom in Jingzhou to the current urban construction of Jingzhou was summarized to provide an example reference for building a living environment that integrates mountains,water and a city.

Construction of Cultural Landscape System for Ancient Yiyang City from the Perspective of “Mountain, Water and City”

As the revitalization of city culture and the city cultural confidence has been increasingly valued, the ancients' perception and interpretation of mountains, rivers and cultural landscapes, as well as their wisdom in the construction of traditional cities deserve more attention and further exploration. Taking ancient Yiyang City for example, this paper on the basis of local chronicles and literature analyzed the construction history of the city, famous mountains and rivers, and top eight views, and attempted to interpret the construction system of "mountain, river and city" landscape of traditional Chinese cities, in order to provide historical basis and cultural background for revitalizing local cultures and shaping urban landscape patterns, and offer spatial strategies for the city protection and renewal.

The Planning of Urban Green Space System Based on the Concept of Conservation-oriented Landscape

Through analyzing problems in the planning of green space system in cities of China,strategies for constructing urban green space system are put forward based on the requirements of conservation-oriented landscape.

Research on Highway Landscape Evaluation System

The paper has selected major evaluation indexes and established an evaluation system for highway landscape by taking Harbin-Daqing Highway for example,introducing the studied road section,using the latest researches on domestic and foreign highway landscape design and evaluation for reference,and based on relevant materials,field survey and opinions of experts,scholars,drivers,passengers,constructors and managers.Through the evaluation by fuzzy math method based on AHP,it has obtained the fuzzy value of each index of Harbin-Daqing Highway landscape system.Furthermore,by combining with the weights of landscape quality indexes,a judgment matrix has been constructed.Then,based on the weight and single factor judgment matrix,the conclusion vector of the first level of evaluation criteria has been obtained,and the conclusion vector of the second level of evaluation criteria obtained,similarly.In line with maximal subordinate degree,a comprehensive judgment has been conducted on landscape quality of Harbin-Daqing Highway,and it is considered that its landscape quality is general.

Taking Agricultural Landscapes into the Development System of Scenic Spot —with the Detail Plan of Yanmen Mountain Scenic Spot in Zhaixing Mountain as a Study Case

As a kind of landscape resources, agricultural landscapes play a crucial role in rural tourism. It is a new attempt by taking agricultural landscapes into the development system of scenic spot for their mutual support and promotion. With the detail plan of Yanmen Mountain Scenic Spot in Zhaixing Mountain Scenic Area as a study case, the authors studied how to take agricultural landscapes into the development system of scenic spot.

Assessment of landscape ecology of agricultural protection forest system at Beizang Town, Daxing County, Beijing

Based on theories of protective forests and landscape ecology, the reasonableness of structures and patterns of shelterbelt system at Beizang Town, Daxing County, Beijing were analyzed and assessed from the two scales of forest belts and networks, by integrating uses of field investigation, GIS and RS techniques. Results showed that the existent main belt (3-12 m in width) was too narrow, while the assistant belt (3-27.1 m in width) was too wide; the species composition of the existent shelterbelts was single, and the structures and patterns of the shelterbelt system were unreasonable. It is suggested that the structure of the main and the assistant belts should be changed, such as increasing the width of main belts, decreasing the width of assistant belt, and planting more mixed species, and the pattern with arbores in the middle and shrubs in the sides of belts could be taken into account. For the landscape structure of forest network after regenerating or reconstruction, the grid number of closed network should be 13 per km2 and the minimum number of belts should be 34 per km2. This study also testified that integrating GIS and remote technique with landscape ecology could provide an effective method for reasonable reconstruction of the structures and patterns of shelterbelts system.

System Planning of Green Landscapes from the Perspective of Regulatory Planning—A Case Study of Regulatory Detailed Planning of Wenfeng District in Nanchong City,Sichuan Province of China

By taking the regulatory detailed planning of Wenfeng District in Nanchong City for example,public green spaces,protective green spaces and ecological green spaces are planned systematically on the basis of "protective,needs-oriented,systematic and characteristic" principles.Landscape system structure of "one belt,one surface,four axes,five districts and multiple points" was analyzed,concrete designs of landscape infiltration surface,landscape axis and style division elaborated.The way of integrating landscape system planning and current situation was discussed in the image construction of new urban district to co-construct characteristic urban images,realize the coordination of city,environment and culture,optimization of urban eco-environment benefits,orderly and sustainable development of urban ecological conditions.

Design of 3D Landscape Walkthrough System

The approach of designing a three-dimensional landscape walkthrough system based on 3ds max and VR-Platform (VRP) was put forward in this study,i.e.3ds max was applied to construct the scene model and then VRP was used to realize real-time walkthrough of the scene.Taking a typical landscape scene for an example,the development of walkthrough system was realized,and high real-time and good visual effects were achieved.

A Decision Support System for Urban Landscape Planning Based on GIS

Based on platform of GIS software ArcView and theory of management information system(MIS), a decision support system on urban landscape planning was designed via GIS technology, module design technique and object-oriented programming technique. The function of this system is realized by its two subsystems—one is for height limit model of city and another is for landscape belt planning, which can help administors in landscape planning.

Systematic Study on Semiotic Landscape Elements in Ancient Water Towns in South Yangtze River Area

Based on basic concepts of semiotics,component types of the semiotic landscape element system in ancient water towns in south Yangtze River area were analyzed as well as their roles in constructing the overall image of ancient water towns in this area,and their realistic significance in the present landscape construction in China was discussed.

Design and Implementation of Three-dimensional Landscape Design System

Based on the characteristics of landscape design,it is considered that three-dimensional rendering and landscape animation are important forms for the display of landscape effect,and has pointed out that there exist some deficiencies in the application of relevant software in China.By using VRML and 3DS MAX,a three-dimensional landscape design system has been developed.Then,its functions have been described which are CAD outline drawing,construction cost estimation,virtual reality,subsequent landscape observation,resources expansion and web files generation.Finally,it has discussed the modeling of virtual landscape data base and VRML interaction.

Application of Systematic Theory in Design of Mountainous Village Landscape

According to systematic concept,system of mountainous village landscape was divided into landscape systems of natural environment,of humanistic entity,and of humanistic spirit.In the paper,analysis was conducted on characteristics of mountainous village landscape,and more attention was paid to the integrity,correlation,adaptability and dynamic.Present features of mountainous village landscape system were analyzed based on present construction of mountainous village landscape and the result indicated that overall design was absent in the system.Besides,research was carried out on present conditions of the three subsystems and the result indicated that the subsystems were inconsistent.Based on the analysis,suggestions were proposed on design of mountainous village landscape.It is emphasized in many aspects in the paper,such as overall design,rational planning,protection of natural environmental landscape system,improvement of humanistic entity system and inheritance of humanistic spirit system,so that coordinated development of subsystems would be promoted.

Responses of Spatial-temporal Variation of Karst Ecosystem Service Values to Landscape Pattern in Northwest of Guangxi,China

The responses of spatiotemporal variation of ecosystem service values (ESVs) to landscape pattern from 1985 to 2005 in a typical Karst area of the northwest Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,China,were examined us-ing remote sensing and geographic information system techniques in this paper.The total ecosystem service values de-clined significantly from 1985 to 1990,and then increased slowly from 1990 to 2005,almost equaled to the 1985 level.The ecosystem service values tended to decline from the west to the east and from mountainous regions to peak-cluster depression areas in 1985,1990,2000 and 2005 respectively.During the period from 1985 to 2005,the ecosystem ser-vice values have increased in the middle and eastern parts of the study area.Landscape pattern indices,such as total area,largest patch index,contagion,aggregative index,effective mesh and proportion of like adjacencies,are significantly correlated with ecosystem service values.This suggests that ecosystem service values tend to increase with the growth of patch area and patch connectivity.However,there are negative correlations between ecosystem service values and landscape pattern indices,such as division index and patch richness.It indicates that ecosystem service values decrease with patch fragmentation and patch size shrinkage.The ecosystem conditions in the typical Karst area have been improved because of the control measures of rocky desertification.It is important to protect key landscape types,such as woodland,shrub and grassland,and to increase patch size and connectivity to avoid further fragmentation.Furthermore,it is necessary to reduce disturbances to ensure the growth of ecosystem service values and to facilitate the sustainable development in this region.

Landscape pattern and its effect on ecosystem functions in Seoul Metropolitan area:Urban ecology on distribution of the naturalized plant species

During land transformation process in the human history, naturalized plants were introduced to several land use patterns by the different ways of plant itself. Including some naturalized plants that had been contribute to land restoration, many naturalized plants have been invaded to original habitat or landscape for native plants. Once the plants were colonized, they extend their area and population size. Urban developed areas often give an important role of source habitat for naturalized plants and expanding their population size. In recent, this situation is appearing as one of environmental problems about the urban landscape management controlling the naturalized plants that invaded in the developed area and conserving the native vegetation. This paper is focusing on relationships between distribution of habitat of naturalized plants and landscape patch in urban area in Seoul. Gangdong-Gu, one of the administrative areas in Seoul was selected for this study. We examined the recent land use change using LANDSAT TM data and spreading of the representative naturalized plants (Robinia pseudoacacia and Eupatorium rugosum) by Seoul Biotope Mapping Project and field survey in 1999. As a result, these two species were often occurred in the same habitat and distributed in forest edge disturbed by man. Their distribution patterns were related to landscape indices (patch size and shape) in the forest edge.

Integrating ecosystem services evaluation and landscape pattern analysis into urban planning based on scenario prediction and regression model

Urban planning has become a widely concern for minimizing the negative effects of urban expansion on terrestrial ecosystems. We developed an interdisciplinary modeling framework to evaluate the effectiveness and shortcomings of urban expansion management strategies. A three-step method was applied to Yinchuan Plain in the northwestern of China, including(1)analyzing the relationship between landscape pattern and ecosystem service values through mathematical statistics;(2) predicting landscape pattern and ecosystem services change under different scenarios based on cellular automaton model(SLEUTH-3r model); and(3) designing and validating optimized scenario through integrating historical analysis experiments and future multi-comparison suggestions. Results have suggested that landscape composition and configuration can significantly affect regional ecosystem service values, especially the connectivity and shape of landscape. Compact urban growth policy and medium environment protection policy are the appropriate setting for urban expansion plan. Optimization validation of the combined designed scenario implied the reliability of this method. Our results highlighted the significance of integrating application of landscape pattern analysis, ecosystem service value evaluation,model simulation and multi-scenario prediction in urban planning.

Landscape planning and ecology construction of wetland comprehensive protected area system in the Sanjiang Plain

Wetland is one of the richest biodiversity areas in the earth. The main purpose of establishing wetland protected area is to protect biodiversity, and the protection of ecosystem diversity and landscape diversity is the key to protect biodiversity. In order to protect regional ecosystem and landscape, it is a good way to establish wetland comprehensive protected area which connected wetland nature reserves by habitat corridors. The Sanjiang Plain as a study area, its landscape evaluation index system on wetland protected area was studied, and some problems on landscape planning and ecology construction were further approached in this paper.It showed that establishing wetland comprehensive protected area is very important to protect regional wetlands, to maintain ecological balance, and to improve the sustainable development of agriculture and industry in this region.

Water System Landscape Planning of Jiang'an Campus of Sichuan University

Planning layouts of Jiang'an Campus, Sichuan University were introduced as well as its water system landscape planning, by dividing waterscapes into planar waterscapes, linear waterscapes and dotted waterscapes, all regions were further analyzed to summarize problems as below: limited participatory contents of waterscapes on Jiang'an Campus, isolation of waterscapes, inadequate maintenance and seasonal treatment. Then corresponding suggestions were given, for example, installing a unified and clear identification system in all sections, selecting several key sections for further designing and enhancing its identifiability; highlighting integrated design of waterscapes and programming concepts, increasing spaces for quiet activities; maintaining regularly, and stressing seasonal aspects of plants in the supplementary planting.

Cause and consequence of landscape fragmentation and changing disturbance by socio-economic development in mountain landscape system of South Korea

Through the statistics and the analysis of landscape map, changes of lands use regime and landscape structure during 20 years were investigated in the agriculture forestry complexed mountain landscape system of Yangdong Myon, Yangpyung Gun in the central Korea. Landscape changes of this region was inter related to the recent socio economic development of rural life. Utilization of biomass and other traditional forest management were drastically abandoned in recent 10 years. Landscape analysis of maps showed that the area of secondary vegetation that had been sustained by human nature disturbance was decreased by using of plantation during this time. Those decreased areas were replaced to plantation for wood production and other purpose. Past area of woody species dominated in plantation also substituted to other species. Traditional human activity on secondary vegetation was disappeared. Consequently, the advanced management regimes such as new plantation and cultivation extending areas were increased in abandoned land.

Evaluation Indicator System of Low-carbon Landscape in Residential Areas: A Case Study of Garden Plant Landscape

Garden plant landscape is one of the main contents of low-carbon landscape design in residential areas. From the basic theory of garden plant landscaping, we put forth five principles and ideas concerning the building of evaluation indicator system of garden plant landscape, to establish the indicator system with ecological quality, recreational function and aesthetic effect as three layers. According to the characteristics of evaluation system, we use qualitative and quantitative integration method, coupled with analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and expert consulting method, to determine the weight of various factors. And we use fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to test this indicator system, so as to provide a theoretical basis for the research on evaluation indicator system of low-carbon landscape.

Construction of Ecological Network for Urban Green Space System from the Perspective of Landscape Ecology:A Case Study of Wanzhou District, Chongqing Municipality

Green spaces in Wanzhou District, Chongqing Municipality were not closely linked and failed to form an integrated ecological network, this paper analyzed and assessed current situation of green spaces in the local area from the perspective of landscape ecology, and then established the landscape ecology-oriented ecological network construction, restructured green paces in Wanzhou District using the landscape composition of "patch–corridor–matrix", and connected the scattered green patches using green corridors, so as to form a reasonable ecological network of green spaces.