A Study on the Visual Interactions Theory for Landscape Planning of Port City

Abstract

This study tried to show a basic concept for landscape planning of port city, i.e. Attractive port cities are expected to provided us with comfortable places commanding both city and ships. Thus Visual Interactions concept is defined as to design landscape considering the experience of viewing port area from inside of city and viewing the city from port areas. The study first proves the theoretical validity of the concept for designing comfortable places through examining the scenery of paintings today and these in illustrations of old famous places. It is found that 66% of today paintings of ships include city at the same time. The study thus permitted to propose the landscape planning techniques to increase the visual interaction experience import city.