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Abstract Chinese culture has a long history. Native culture, as an important part of China's traditional culture heritage, is rich in variety. In characteristic towns, native culture has strong local characteristics, and its protection and heritage has great value. This paper aimed to inherit traditional culture, protect the local characteristics of the towns, endow the town landscape with a unique cultural value, enhance people's cultural cohesion and identity of local culture and create characteristic towns with strong cultural characteristics.
Keywords Characteristic towns, Landscape design, Local culture, Protection and heritance
DOI 10.16785/j.issn 1943-989x.2018.2.0191
The China's New-type Urbanization Plan (2014-2020) proposed that we strive to get out of a new road to urbanization with Chinese characteristics that is characterized with people orientation, synchronization with four modernizations, optimized layout, ecological civilization and cultural heritage. Cultural heritage and highlighting the characteristics has become one of the basic principles of the new national urbanization111. In recent years, with the rapid development of economy and urbanization in China, tremendous changes have taken place in small towns. In the construction of small towns, to create a unique landscape of small towns has become a hot issue of landscape industry. The Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of Characteristic Cultural Industries just promulgated by tbe state pointed out that relying on the unique local cultural resources to develop regional cultural industries with distinctive regional characteristics and ethnic characteristics, which has an important role in speeding up the new urbanization121. In the context of rapid urbanization, in the landscape design of characteristic towns, the loss of local culture and the destruction of ecological landscape are more and more serious. Therefore, it is imperative to protect and inherit the native culture in the landscape design of characteristic towns. How to combine the local culture of local area with the landscape design of characteristic towns and make the material culture and the non-material culture inherit is an important issue before us.
1Connotation of characteristic town and local culture
1.1Characteristic town
Characteristic towns are small towns relatively independent from urban areas with clear industrial positioning and unique cultural connotation, and they strive to achieve the integration of production, living and ecology in the future development of the dty. Characteristic towns have their oven unique cultural industries...