Exploring Visualisation Methodology of Landscape Design on Rural Tourism in China

Rural tourism has become a hot topic in China in the context of the nation’s rural revitalisation. Rural tourism allows tourists to experience local life and promotes local economic development. However, there is considerable controversy over the landscape design of ancient Chinese villages. Many problems, such as how to design and protect the landscape of these ancient villages and how to improve the tourist experience, are not resolved. For our research object, we selected the ancient Gaotiankeng Village in Kaihua County, Zhejiang Province. Using questionnaires, image interviews, and some user experience techniques such as mental maps, we collected user experience data by assessing design cases. The visualisation method presented a wide range of experience in the landscape and planning field. This study primarily used computer image processing, image entropy calculation, and colour mapping to process the data. A visualisation framework was defined to highlight the landscape aesthetics, landscape service, and tourists’ emotion. The results indicated the relationship of three elements. The objective of our study was to develop a method of landscape design and planning that can effectively enhance tourists’ experience and provide practical suggestions for rural landscapes and relatively better services.

Making Sustainable Regional Design Strategies Successful

This paper identifies innovative methods of strategic spatial design to demonstrate the sustainable outcomes that can be achieved by adopting landscape practices to future-proof our cities and regions. A range of strategic landscape-led models and methodologies are investigated to reveal the structure, administrative processes and key elements that have been adopted in order to facilitate the integration of climate change environmental design and landscape quality. We have found that a strong established framework that demonstrates innovative project management and early integration of environmental ideas is critical in order to be able to deliver landscape schemes that appropriately identify and address current climatic and social challenges. Furthermore, to make a real difference in the way that professional practice and politics deal with landscape infrastructure, the project framework and key concepts related to landscape design and planning, such as low carbon design and spatial quality, need to be clearly supported by legislation and policy at all levels. Together with close attention to the importance of design, this approach is more likely to ensure effective implementation and smooth communication during the development of a landscape scheme, leading to higher levels of sustainability and resilience in the future.

Cybernetics in Planning and Design

Cybernetics in landscape architecture planning and design are discussed in this paper. There are many differences and characteristic in the area of design products compared with other industrial products. The control stages or steps include: information collection in previous designs, information feedback in the planning and design, information feedback in a building construction or in a partly-finished building, information feedback in the use of a finished building. The article studies integrated ecology and design, integrated uses in urban and landscape areas, the method of interdisciplinary working. System theory is involved in this paper to discuss relevant problems. The paper also discusses the major controllable factor in the ecological strategies, and then examines effective planning and design. This article argues the problem of ecological strategies in the landscape design and planning, and the main contents of ecological strategies. It includes the strategy of landscape sustainable development, which is in conflict with rapid economies and historic preservation, ecological conservation.

Ecological Conception and Level Analysis in Planning and Design

Ecological system theory in landscape architecture planning and design are discussed in this paper. The article studies the composition of urban, landscape and building ecosystem, integrated ecology and design, integrated uses in urban and landscape areas, the method of interdisciplinary working. System theory is involved in this paper to discuss relevant problems. In addition to these, the article gives account of ecological engineering in all-around, including ecological denotation and connotation analysis, the wider sense and the narrow sense, the general level and the high level about ecological engineering. This article argues the problem of ecological strategies in the landscape design and planning, and the main contents of ecological strategies. It includes the strategy of landscape sustainable development, which is in conflict with rapid economies and historic preservation, ecological conservation.