The Fundamental Characteristic Of Urban Landscape Based On Transportation System

City is always in the changes and developments. The high speed urbanization hastened the development of urban landscape. With Industrialization and the onset of automobiles, transportation system is growing with every passing day. Acting as a constituent element of urban landscape, transportation system has a great impact on function, morphology and connotation of urban landscape. Modern urban space is becoming more dynamic: the road network is more complicated, the morphology of public space is more varied, and all forms of transportation coexist at different speeds. Faced these complicated requirements, what characteristic transportation Landscape should appear?Referenced to many document and theories, and guided with foresighted theories about the development of urban landscape from home and abroad, this essay concentrated first on the characteristics of the variety and evolving of urban landscape, and cited many corresponding instances to demostrate the developmental tendency of urban landscape. It considered transportation system and transportation landscape as a system, and set out from the relationship between landscape subject and landscape object, mainly analyzed the relations between the driver and transportation Landscape, the relations of constituent elements of transportation landscape, and inquired how the transportation landscape adapt to people's pattern of behavior with visual psychology. Then delimited the influence on the whole image of transportation landscape which exerted by people's perception and the relations of constituent elements, thus summed up the fundamental characteristic which transportation Landscape should appear under ideal conditions.