The international landscape industry has always maintained a fully self-renewal for more than ten years in the 21st century. And Chinese landscape industry practices are getting closer to the modern sense of landscape, it focuses more on the integration of landscape and city, the openness of the landscape space, and the interaction among it, rather than just the traditional garden and green system construction.

In recent years, several classical waterfront reconstruction cases in Shanghai transformed from a mess, alienation,separation and pollution to the current harmony, hydrophilic and sustainability. Though all these rapid developments are good marks, the perfection of each links is to be expected during the finely precipitation and polishments in the future.

In North America, the design is often very humble, pure, steadfast while does not make widely known individually. It doesn't only stick to one pattern, but with bold and innovative temperaments to design.

Landscape design is definitely affected by the local culture, and expresses it through the landscape trait. The design needed to consider which style of design is fit for the area, and do the design and activities set according to its own traits.

In the North American value systems, there's no unprovoked landscape space, and also not only for landscape to do landscape. In their opinions, the landscape should be the specific space that must hould certain urban funtions.

The understanding of space is not only about visual effects or artificial skills, it's more about understanding the physical space meanings through historical culture and social pschological dimensions.

With the transformation of urban landscape function as the background, it elaborates the trends of landscape as the transformative agent, and puts forward nine principles of waterfront landscape constructions.

In order to meet the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the Bund area has a large-scalelandscape transformation. This paper introduced the space on the waterfront Bund layout, node design, landscape greening, night scene and other aspects of the design concept. Now, the new Shanghai Bund has becomeanother important highlight of the city landscape.

The traditional engineer orientedhighway development has a great potential dissever the urban fabric and naturalenvironment. The focus of this project is not only to mitigate the potential negative impact on Chongming’s Uniquepattern, but also identify and incorporate the ecological, landscape, cultural,and tourism opportunity in the highway development.