| Summary: | The “Park City” concept presents a new, urban development model that can be used as a guide
for planning the growth of a city. Advancing the transformation of Chengdu into a park city is an
important and unique strategic option for maintaining and strengthening the Chengdu-Chongqing
economic circle. The construction of a park city in Chengdu has many potentially positive and
favorable outcomes, including maintaining natural ecosystems while improving biodiversity, livability,
and enhancing the city’s historical and cultural heritage, all while establishing Chengdu as a national
leader for this new urban development model. In recent years, park city scenescape modeling and the
resulting ecological value transformations have been analyzed through theory, mechanism designs,
and limited practice, but throughout the explorations on scenescape building and ecological value
transformations, the actual construction of a park city is still facing many problems. This article argues
that Chengdu should take lessons from the advanced experience in urban ecological construction
efforts of other cities, both in China and overseas, focusing on sustained scenescape building,
theoretical research in ecological value transformations, establishing meaningful and compatible
interaction mechanisms between ecological value transformations and capital markets, improving
the levels of planning and designing needed for scenescape building, establishing innovative
scenescape building and ecological value transformations management systems and mechanisms, and
cultivating park city scenescape brands. Related and detailed scenescape building and ecological value
transformation measurement and policy suggestions are also provided in this article.
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