Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to clarify the historical transformation of the urban park in mountain foot areas of Dalian City in China. Dalian is famous sea-side city, having beautiful mountains as a background of city. Therefore, how to preserve the mountain scenery is one of the essential issues of Dalian. We chose Laodong Park as a study site, since it has a long history from the end of the 19th century. The following three points are clarified. The first is the planning principle of the park differed, based on the political reasons. In Russian era, the park was a buffer zone between Chinese people and European people. In Japanese era, the extensive park plan was implemented, and basically it has been succeeded after the Chinese revolution. Secondly, however, there exist the strong principles related to the geography and landscape. We analyzed three landscape units and these units succeeded more than one hundred years. Thirdly, the various needs to the park have been solved by changing and adding the facilities within the landscape units. We conclude based on the fundamental principles caused from these landscape units, it becomes possible to manage and preserve mountain foot landscapes in Dalian.
