[Urban landscape functional regionalization and development strategy in Shenyang City]

According to the topography, land type suitability and human activity, the urban area of Shenyang City was regionalized into four landscape functional regions, i.e., economic and cultural supporting region, ecological equilibrium region (including northern high plain equilibrium sub-region and southern low plain equilibrium sub-region), ecological supporting region (including eastern ecological supporting sub-region and western ecological supporting sub-region), and ecological barrier region. In economic and cultural supporting region, the radiation of function in economy and culture should be strengthened, and the natural and artificial green space system should be preserved. In ecological supporting region, environmentally friendly industries should be developed to provide diverse ecological service well. As a combination of natural and man-made ecological system, the ecological equilibrium region could balance and steady the other regional services. To keep the balance between artificial and natural landscapes in this region, it was needed to control the expansion of construction land, maintain the natural and semi-natural system, and build the ecological corridors to connect various natural system. In ecological barrier region, the ecological environment was in instability, where the protection and production should be dealt with equally.