Chengdu River status and cause analysis

Jian Zhang, Zhongwei Shen, Hao Shen

School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Focusing on the basic model of the riverside landscape of Chengdu’s five major rivers, this paper conducts contrastive analysis on the model characteristics of urban riverside landscape, location of the city where it locates and the urban construction status and explains in detail about the relation between the formation reasons of urban riverside landscape and the level of urbanization development. It discusses the effect of urban development and residents demand on urban riverside landscape design so as to perfect the design thought about it.