Research On Urban Design Guidelines Establishment Of “Shanshui” Town

Late 20 th century to the early 21 st century, construction of Chinese town has been developing rapidly. On the other hand, it makes the urban design issue increasingly serious. Many towns lost their own characteristics, especially the “Shanshui” town. As one of the important operation tools of urban planning, urban design guidelines are considered to be the key to the town construction. However, China is deficient in researching urban design of “Shanshui” town in theory, as well as establishing the urban design guidelines to emphasize its unique characteristics in practice. As a consequence, beneficial suggestions and compiling methods are essential to urban design guidelines specific for “Shanshui” town.To establish urban design guidelines, it should be based on the fundamental theory and relevant technical documents. Urban design guidelines are the implementation document that contains and compounds master planning, policy requirements and transformation of urban design intention to executable plan. Research to the requirement of regulatory detailed planning, planning policy and urban design management documents can deduce town urban design guidelines in the preparation of guidance, control elements system and planning implementation. Taking urban design guidelines establishment in Hongshi Town of Jilin Province as an example, a comprehensive solution could be concluded from the establishment principles, compiling process and guiding control elements system. Design guidelines will guide and control elements content of the preparation of detailed classification and in-depth study of the settlement of the problem formulation contents.Through the research on the principles, processes and contents of urban design guidelines of “Shanshui” town, it can achieve the combination of implementation of urban design in China, and it can clearly indicate each clause of the guidelines. At the same time, the urban design guidelines can create a unique character of “Shanshui” towns by this flexible planning. It can give a certain theoretical support and play a practical guiding role in urban planning and design of towns in China, and also can clarify the position of urban design guidelines in planning and constructing towns.