Cityscape:An Indication of City’s Value

Cityscape is a cultural character of city form and existing environment that developed amid historical process, including natural and social-economic factors, as well as citizens’ lifestyles. It is spirit of the city, gives city vitality, preserves, develops and popularizes cities’ culture. Planners should emphasize the protection of urban identities, explore typical and distinctive city features, as well as enhance and strengthen them, to indicate them with architecture and landscape languages and avoid the phenomenon of "thousand cities with same appearances" lead by cloning and copying. Also, the reconstruction of historic features should be carefully differentiated with fake history.