On the Craft of Gardens (Yuanye) and Urban Landscape Design

Urban human settlement construction advocates paying attention to the simultaneous and coordinated development of urban social production with natural environment in the process of urbanization; facing the many problems in the development and construction of modern cities, this paper discusses deeply on modern urban ecological design connecting with modern urban green design, landscape design and ecological design by studying the design idea reflected in The Craft of Gardens (a Chinese book on gardening by Ji Cheng); it also proposes that the simple ecological view of The Craft of Gardens should be integrated in the concept of modern landscape planning and should be developed and extended, which obviously shall promote the modernization process of China's concept of landscape planning.