Landscape Preferences of People with Different Attribute on Prototype Landscape

Prototype landscape is the permanent fixation scene for a region formed by people who lived there for a long time before the age of 18. This study utilized a questionnaire survey method to analyze the preferences of people with different attributes on prototype landscape. The conclusions were as follows: 1) the maximum value of total score distributions by T-test was between 10 and 14, which indicated that people with different attributes had a strong awareness of prototype landscape; 2) The impact of prototype landscape on people’s behavior, cognition, and emotion was weakened in turn. 3) There existed obvious differences in people’s preference on prototype landscape, showed that: ①Sex: male>female; ②Age: 51~60 >31~40 >18~30 >41~50; ③Living surrounding before 18 years old: Village> City > County; ④Area: Northern China >Southern China; ⑤Qualifications: junior college and undergraduate > junior middle school and below > master's degree and above > secondary school and vocational school; ⑥ Occupation: Enterprise staff > institutional staff > others > students > individuals and freelancer. Though analyzing different people’s preference on prototype landscape, exploring their different features, this study aimed to provide the theoretical guidance for landscape planning and design of urban development on the basis of nostalgia.