| Rapid development of Chinese cities, making circles in China for the search for the city image formation mechanism of the increasingly strong demand. Traditional urban landscape with its typical characteristics and traditional Chinese cosmology the East, beauty, poetry, painting and other multi-faceted integration of theory, be a suitable development model of the ideal of Chinese cities. And Kevin Lynch ? City Image theory put forward by the West rely on different backgrounds, this paper, based on traditional Chinese culture under invasion, landscape city image formation mechanism. Focus on the typical landscape of the city of Hangzhou to do focus, summed up the traditional image of the city landscape formation mechanism.They include: seasonal spatial and temporal mechanisms, literary mechanism, receptor mechanism, tour the mechanism. And the aesthetic beauty of traditional urban landscape, including: False or True, vivid, deserted, dim. This ultimate goal is by digging deep city image formation mechanism to explain the traditional landscape urban aesthetic of the city image in order to find suitable Chinese cities, in particular, is a landscape of geographical advantages and historical heritage of the traditional landscape development of the city of Road and city image building of the law. And hoped that this article generated image of the City Landscape Exploration of the mechanism, current urban construction can provide some inspiration significance. |