The Research On Landscape Image Of Langzhong Ancient City

City is the place where we live and survive, it not only provided to the places we live in, but also carrying our perception of the place and the feeling of belonging. With the rapid growth and expansion of cities, urban construction gradually ignored the regional culture, environment and urban ecological background difference. We present a similar trend of city image, led to such as “Stateless world” and “Generic city” problems, it reduces the cities' acknowledgeable identities and images' relativity. LangZhong as the one of China's four big ancient city, it has strong representative in the natural environment, the traditional historical block landscape and the regional culture. Its rich natural landscape environment and profound cultural accumulation makes the urban landscape image unique and bright, it has the prominent overall style and features.Starting from the theory of human nature, it will be useful to interpret landscape images of natural, artificial and cultural elements of LangZhong. Based on the interpretation of idea and space image of the city, we can come to the conclusion that LangZhong is full of multiple connotations, and we can also explore the natural, social and historical factors which made it happen. After that, the protection planning point is put forward from three aspects: macro, meso and micro. The study of LangZhong landscape image system and methods would be more effective in protection and update our urban landscape image.The thesis consists of seven chapters. Chapter one points out the background, significance, related researches and the frame of this thesis. Chapter two summarizes the conception of landscape image and some theories relevant. Chapter three explain the composition of LangZhong landscape image from natural, artificial and cultural elements. Chapter four parses the idea and space image of the city through questionnaire survey and cognitive map, it will be found that LangZhong ancient city has multiple connotations. Chapter five analyzes the reason of formation of landscape image. Chapter six analysis the characteristic of landscape image of LangZhong, it points out the protection and planning gist from macro, meso and micro based on the understanding of strength and sequence. Chapter seven puts forward the conclusion and the shortcomings of the thesis.