The Application of Landscape Architecture in Slum Redevelopment-Taking the Waterfront Area of Suzhou River in Shanghai as an Example

Due to historical and realistic causes, part of the waterfront area of Suzhou River in Shanghai is in the marginalized status, even worse, becoming the slums. The slums resort to landscape architecture as informal strategy to improve the living condition and mitigate the discrepancies between diverse classes. In this paper, it tries to use landscape architecture as an interventional approach to the slum rejuvenation. And it finds that the approaches used in the slum rejuvenation can be divided into three parts, firstly is self-sustainable resource and energy including utilization of solar power and foot power, the setting of urban agriculture. Second is Maximum utilization of space including green corridor, shared facilities and flexible use of space, and the third is Self-identity and image-building including renewal of facade and visual identity system.