近现代文化艺术思潮影响下美国城市景观艺术设计

【Abstract】wWw.shuoshilunwen.com America is a capitalist country which possesses the highest civilization in the world. As the world’s No. one economic power, America, which plays a pioneering role in the tide of globalization, greatly impacts the global economy and culture development. After more than 400 years’development, America now has already extended the natural landscape into an urban one. The modern American designers he initiated brand-new landscape planning and designing approaches for the settlements. As far as the landscape designing is concerned, America has established a subject with the unique American characteristics on the basis of absorbing that of both the Orient and the Europe. The American cityscape designing, which has gone through not only the stages of European Classicali and Romantici, but also the Park Movement brought about by Industriali and Urbanization, has explored the direction and theory of landscape architecture in the modern times and shaped a diversity pattern at last.In America, the elites devoted in the study and practice of the landscape designing theory has either direct or indirect connection with the world landscape designing system and school, which makes America extremely influential in the landscape designing all over the world compared with other developed countries. This thesis, taking the research and analysis of the elements such as designing thoughts, designing style, pioneering character as the cross axis, and the American history and culture since the 17th century as the vertical axis, makes a phased review and conclusion about the thoughts and culture of public space art of modern American cityscape.The development of the modern American landscape designing is a worldwide epitome. From its history course, it’s evident that science technology and culture always develop continuously with the progress of the society. It inevitably shows different needs of thoughts and culture under different social economy and technology background. The thesis, focusing on the American cityscape designing of public space, takes an overall consideration of the comprehensive systematic development of the American cityscape art designing in both modern and contemporary times.