Plant landscape design based on community unit: a case study of Yingdong village, Chongming County.

Community,as an ecological concept,had been widely considered in the configuration of plant landscape,but few studies on its application as the basic unit for design.In this case study of Yindgdong village in Chongming County,the space region was divided firstly according to protection effect,soil property and functional section separately.Then superposition calculation function of ARCGIS 9.0 was used to overlay the region into nine plant community units.The landscape of each unit was.constructed in accordance with its characteristics,in order to form a natural rural landscape with ecological conservation function and aesthetic value.