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Urban characteristics are people's affirmative, visual and artistic summary of the content and form of a city. It is a characteristic that can be felt by people's senses, and can rise from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge, and gain an understanding of the city's individual features. Urban landscape is the main external expression of urban characteristics, so urban landscape design has become the main means of shaping urban characteristics.

Shanghai, as the largest city in mainland China today; one of the four central municipalities; is the economic, financial, trade and shipping center of mainland China. Hundreds of years ago, it was just a small port close to land in the vast ocean. However, in modern times, especially in 1845, after about two years of negotiations between the British and the Qing government, the "Shanghai Land Charter" allowed the British to open up modern China on this small port. The first concession in mainland China was the British Concession in Shanghai. Later, France and the United States successively opened concessions in Shanghai. The opening of the British, French and American concessions was on the one hand the beginning of modern China's century-old history of humiliation. On the other hand, it also promoted the formation and development of Shanghai's urbanization. Developing modern Shanghai into the most distinctive city in modern China. This book briefly describes the history and development of Shanghai. It is rich in content and vivid and interesting in language. It is a good popular reading to understand the development situation of Shanghai.