The Small Town Streetscape Design Study

With the development of small towns, people's demand for the "quality" of their living environment is more and more high, which needs a harmonious natural environment between man and nature. As the environment skeleton of small towns, not only are streets the most dynamic linear space in the urban landscape system, but also they are the important element structuring the overall image of small towns. So streets can constitute a beautiful streetscape and create unique image of the cities and towns.This shows that the deep study of road landscape design is the requirements of sustainable development as well as the essential method of enhancing the quality of contemporary people life. At the same time, small town streetscape design also involves ecological issues, planning problem and the collaboration of all kinds of majors. Generally speaking, landscape design of the small towns' streets serves for human ecology and the livelihood.External image of a town being good or bad,depends on many factors, including one of the most important factors, the road landscape. People's impression to road space is relation to decoration of the roads' face, road appendage decoration, street building facades, street trees, street scenes and the plaza billboard etc, which together constitute the overall image of the street space. Any deficit of above elements is bound to affect the entire road space functionality and aesthetics, and to destroy the town's overall image. So the researches about urban road landscape planning are particularly important. With the impact of the city modernization process, now, existing roads and old neighborhoods of small cities and towns in Xi'an, because of the narrow spatial scales, the lack of green road, the non- humanistic road environment, have been unable to meet the needs of modern urban transports. Therefore, the small town road landscape design must blend into the urban landscape planning.In this paper, I'll take Xi'an road landscape of small towns for the study. The paper contents take Guodu industry park section and Fengyukou section of Xiwan road,which I have taken part in ,as an example for analysis to explore a number of design concepts used in above two cases. The purpose of this paper is to reveal existence laws from the space and the connotations of urban landscape image, and to master design approach and then to direct the research of small cities and towns landscape design.Hoping that through this research, this paper can find a road landscape design ideas to meet to a "human" multi-needs. The small urban road planning can really do respect for nature and people, creating a modern road landscape image with cultural connotation and humanistic features. Deeply hope that this study can help the actual work of other roads landscape design in Xi'an.