Development Model of Landscape and Leisure Oriented Cities

Abstract

A landscape and leisure oriented city is a type of eco city which uses the urban landscape to carry the historical and cultural characteristics of the city, linking man with nature and providing urban residents with an environment conducive to a leisurely life and spiritual enjoyment. The landscape and leisure oriented city combines two elements—urban landscape and urban leisure—and through rational planning and construction of its landscape patterns can continuously improve the quality of urban residents’ leisure time, increase the public’s life happiness index, build a harmonious society and improve the overall development of politics, culture and the economy. Paying attention to the promotion of urban leisure embodies the humanization of modern urban planning and construction and the promotion of a high quality urban environment. By building the evaluation index system of landscape and leisure oriented cities, which is composed of the five characteristic indices of the landscape and leisure oriented city, namely the landscape patch connectivity, the 500 m radius of the service rate of green space in parks, city tourism revenue’s percentage of the city’s GDP, the number of theaters and cinemas shared by ten thousand people, the number of parks shared by ten thousand people and 14 core indices of the eco city, this research selects 150 cities above prefecture-level, according to their social, economic and political development levels and compares their landscape patterns and leisure levels. It also selects the top 100 cities in order to evaluate their urban construction. Then, the longitudinal comparison and analysis of cities in different regions is carried out by taking the 19 indices as the urban attribute and by taking the geographical division as the grouping basis and at the same time the degree of correlation between the 19 indices is discussed. Based on these analyses, this research promotes the ideas of constructing and developing landscape and leisure oriented eco cities. Firstly, the city needs to have a sound natural ecology and social environment. Secondly, the layout of the city’s landscape structure needs to be suitable, with a certain number of attractive landscape resources. Thirdly, its level of economic development, infrastructure construction, leisure service industry, facilities and equipment has to meet its urban residents’ leisure needs.