Abstract: How to cope with the sea level rise caused by global climate change has become one of the key issues to be solved for the future development of coastal cities. By using literature review and comparative analysis, this research has summarized the impact of sea level rise and the adaptive development framework formulated by foreign coastal cities. The results show that the exploration and research on different urban landscape coping strategies mainly involve coastal land use, defensive infrastructure construction, natural dynamic processes, and application of landscape technologies. The advantages and disadvantages vary from different adaptive strategies. These findings can be used as a reference for the development of landscape adaptability strategies, exploration of new technologies and methods of landscape engineering, and strengthening of landscape risk assessment and monitoring for the future development of coastal cities in China.