The paper had studied the source of natural aesthetic view,discussed the great significance of world view of "unity between heaven and human",concluded the complement and deepening of "unity between heaven and human" by different schools,and proposed that artistic beauty was the distinctive feature of Chinese traditional garden.From the perspective of historical development,it had made a general survey of the change of Chinese traditional natural aesthetic view,analyzed main content and characteristics of it at the generating stage,forming stage and development stage,and emphasized that characteristics of each stage formed on the basis of natural aesthetic consciousness of last stage.Based on this,by combining the development of traditional gardens,effect of change of natural aesthetic view on gardens had been analyzed,and correspondingly,development of gardens had been divided into three stages which were forming stage,emergence of natural landscape garden and emergence of artistic landscape garden.It highlighted the great significance of natural aesthetic view in gardens,and inspired that Chinese modern landscape garden and landscape design should be based on natural aesthetic view,combine with change of modern citizens' aesthetic view,and then carry forward Chinese traditional natural aesthetic view.
A review of the history of Chinese gardens beginning in the Shang Dynasty reveals that parks have become increasingly important to urban residents' lives; and hence, this paper proposes a methodology to evaluate the suitability of parks. The analysis shows that suitability evaluations of urban parks should not be restricted to a park's basic functions, but should include a comprehensive evaluation of ecological value, cultural inheritance and feature construction. After describing the current literature of research on indices, categories, use conditions and landscape accessibility of domestic and foreign urban parks, the paper concludes with a framework for evaluating a park's suitability, i.e. the establishment of an integrated evaluation system, the selection of reasonable evaluation methods, and public participation as an indicator in the evaluation system, so as to ensure the validity of research results.
