Construction of site selection evaluation system of Garden Shows in China based on urban developing goals

Abstract

Garden show originated in Europe is a city event of festival characteristic about landscape and garden exhibition. It was officially introduced to China as Kunming International Horticultural Exposition of 1999 which was highly praised. The garden shows in China mainly include 4 International Horticultural Expositions (since 1999 about every four years), 11 China International Flower Expos (sine 1997 every two years), 8 China Flower Expos (since 1987 every four years) and 3 China Virescence Expos (since 2005 every four years). As great city events, garden shows play important roles in city spatial development. Garden shows’ site selection can express the strategic intent to the host city, the function requirement of garden shows and an important effect factor for the garden shows to achieve the established urban developing goals. According to the host city’s urban planning goals, we analyzed several typical cases and categorized the site selections’ function into four types: the garden show site selections for exhibition and sell, for inner city renewal, for new area construction and for scenic forest exploitation. Each type of site selections’ function has been clarified in three aspects: the distance from the city, the suitable scale and the specific function in both city life and city development. And as great city events, there is possibility for garden shows site selection to learn from Expo, so we took the site reselection of 2010 Shanghai World Expo as an example to explain the tendency