How should China's landscape cities be built in the 21st century?

In the 1990s, China started a big discussion on the mode of urban development in socialist China in the 21st century. Prof. Qian Xuesen proposed that the concept of landscape city is to combine the traditional Chinese culture of landscape poetry, landscape paintings and classical Chinese gardens with modern city construction.

Bao Shixing of the China Urban Science Research Association of the Ministry of Construction proposed that the landscape city is the habitat of China in the 21st century. The core idea of landscape city is to take into account urban ecology and history and culture, modern technology and environmental aesthetics. It considers the needs of future urban production and life development. It is a living and working environment for the Chinese people to enjoy.

CCA believes that the 21st century is the century of cities, mainly the urbanization of developing countries. Focusing on the high-speed development of China's urbanization, experts in urban ecology believe that the landscape city is an ecological city with Chinese characteristics; experts in urban gardening believe that the landscape city is the sublimation of gardening, and that the landscape city is from the city building a park to the city turning into a park; experts in architecture believe that the soul of the landscape city is "Chinese Characteristics Experts in architecture believe that the soul of the landscape city is "Chinese characteristics", ecological environment and cultural environment, both of which are given equal importance. Some experts even imagined that, due to the progress of urbanization, people with steel and concrete to create a large number of artificial "landscape", where the "mountain" is the steel building, "water" is the rolling road on the water, "water" is the water, "water" is the water, "water" is the water, "water" is the water, "water" is the water, "water" is the water. The "mountains" here are the steel buildings, and the "water" is the tidal wave of traffic on the roads. The concept of the "landscape city" is to harmonize the relationship between these steel and concrete landscapes and natural landscapes.

City ecology and history and culture are inextricably linked. Mr. Qian once said that the ecological city is really the foundation - the material foundation - of what I call the landscape city. "People leave nature and return to nature", for this reason, to carry forward the Chinese garden architecture, especially the characteristics of the Royal large-scale gardens, such as the Summer Palace, Chengde Summer Resort, etc., to build the entire city as a mega-garden, also known as the "landscape city". Regarding modern science and technology and environmental aesthetics, Mr. Qian said that a city of landscape is also a city of high technology. When talking about the characteristics of the city of Beijing, he said in Zhongshan Park, north of the tube river next to the shade, sit and look at the Forbidden City, see that the construction of the city on the corner of the tower, really can not say the taste. Landscape city must have the beauty of the mood! Regarding for the sake of the common people and for the future, Mr. Qian said that this is to take the buildings and gardens enjoyed by the ancient emperors and make them available to the inhabitants of modern China. For developed countries, the task of urban population growth has been largely accomplished.

Bao Shih-hsing said the growth of the urban population in the 21st century will be mainly in developing countries, and it is the peasants in those countries who will concentrate in the cities. The Chinese nation has a special affection for mountains and water because, with numerous famous rivers and mountains on our land, the Chinese nation is an agrarian-oriented people, dependent on nature and revering it.

Confucius said, "The wise man enjoys the water, the benevolent man enjoys the mountains." It reflects the view of mountains and water in Chinese philosophy. Bao Shixing said one of the characteristics of our culture is comprehensive art. Chinese painting is a comprehensive art of painting, poetry, calligraphy and goldsmithing; Peking Opera is a comprehensive art of "singing, reading, doing and dancing", face painting, costumes, music and choreography; Chinese food culture emphasizes "color, flavor, taste and shape", which reflects the comprehensive nature of oriental art. In ancient China, many cities, scenic spots and gardens had "eight scenic spots" and "ten scenic spots". This is the beginning of the Sui and Tang dynasties "set of culture".

Human science and environmental science are two interconnected, very close relationship between the two disciplines. Bao Shixing believes that ancient China attaches great importance to landscape culture, emphasizing the role of landscape environment on their own to improve the quality of temperament, emphasizing the health "health is not as good as nourishing the nature". In nourishing sex, and emphasize the role of landscape. "Poetry and books to please the heart, mountains and forests, can prolong life." The "landscape city" is the embodiment of the combination of modern civilization and China's traditional culture, and is a model of urban development with Chinese characteristics in the 21st century.

The question is: how should the Chinese landscape city be built in the 21st century?

The question is: How should a Chinese landscape city be built in the 21st century?