Waterfront Multi-Stereo Landscape Study Of Mountainous Cities

China is a country with many mountains, and the number of mountainous cities and towns is over half of the total number of cities and towns nationwide. What's more, our country is abundant in waterfront cities. Moreover, waterfront landscape of mountainous cities contains unique landscape characteristics due to their special natural geographic environmental locations and long history. Chongqing is a typical western mountainous city in China, characterized by its tridimensional constructions along both mountains and rivers. With development of the economy and acceleration of urbanization process, the status of waterfront landscape of mountainous cites is gradually improved. Consequently, constructing multi-stereoscopic landscape design system with distinctive regional characteristics is realistically focused and highly demanded.The multi-stereo landscape is the best way to design waterfront landscape according to the realities of mountainous cities landscapes. It is inevitable for future development in this trend. This paper contains six chapters which will further consider, analyze and describe arguments to why multi-stereo landscaping is the best way to design waterfront landscaping.The first chapter describes the concept of multi-stereo landscape in waterfront landscape of mountainous cities. It includes the definition of this concept, researched objectives and limitations, the background and significance of the concept, the research methodology and framework, etc. The first chapter also includes brief explanations and constrains on a few important disciplines.The second chapter discusses the argument in terms of spatial extension methods, profile features, linear landscape etc. It analyzes the successful cases of waterfront landscape design from home and abroad, and searches for the preferences of landscape design in perspective of eastern and western countries. Consequently, this chapter provides the basis for urban waterfront landscape design in China and widens your view and thoughts on the concept.The third chapter analyzes the current condition of waterfront landscape in a famous mountainous city, Chongqing. It introduces the location, topographic features, waterfront landscape survey of the city, and criticizes the current condition of urban waterfront landscape construction. It also points out that the main reasons for the improper landscape construction lie in mechanism, institutional framework and designing.The fourth chapter addresses the analysis on mountainous city waterfront landscape designing measures and the summarization of various methods, both under the guidance of mountainous city landscape theories. The proposed suggestions aim to be references for the future researches on waterfront landscape of mountainous cities.The fifth chapter introduces a case study from Chang Bin Street with typical mountainous characteristics in Chongqing. Here, the concept is implemented; this case study help to verify the techniques created from multi-stereo landscape of mountainous cities, and therefore indicates the manipulability and continuity of the research.Finally, in the epilogue of the paper, the author summaries that the multi-stereo landscape is inevitable in development of landscape design in mountainous cities. By establishing the waterfront multi-stereo landscape of mountainous cities, the natural environment and the human cultural context will merge in a concordant way; also the sense of aesthetics and the sense of ecology will interpenetrate harmoniously.