Comparison of Traditional Layout of Business District between Chinese and Western Countries

Research on the differences in traditional business districts in China and western countries is of great guidance significance for promoting the development of our modem business landscape. Landscape layout is comprehensive planning and arrangement for landscape, which is the process of creating landscape with sc ientific method and is the final realization of world outlook, values, ethics and other objectives reflected by landscape design. It can be seen from comparisons that Chinese and western business streets affect each other in site formation, sca le change and layout development. The layout of traditional business streets in China focuses on convenient business behavior, presenting free and flexible characteristics; while the layout of traditional business streets in western countries focuses on city planning, presenting rational and orderly characteristics with perfect facil iti es.