An analysis of landscape characteristics of urban rivers – with the case of Chengdu
Jian Zhang, Zhongwei Shen, Hao Shen
School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Urban river landscape is a key ecological regulating system in cities, attracting increasing attention from people. Our research conducted a systematic and comprehensive research of landscape characteristics of main rivers in Chengdu from some new perspectives, including the city in the large, city location and Single River. This research is intended to better understand the landscape structure along main rivers in Chengdu, to facilitate the evaluation of macro-regional ecological environment, and to provide references for the study of regional ecological environment.