Study on Landscape Impact and Ecological Restoration of Road Construction in Xingsha

Since Changsha Economic Development Zone was set up in Xingsha district of Changsha City in 1992, Xingsha district has become a new eastern satellite town of Changsha city, P.R.China. The construction of Xingsha district, especially road construction has been producing a great impact on the landscape of the city. Through investigation, we find the landscape system has been changed. A continuous habitat is subdivided into smaller sections, ecological connectedness is reduced, and the road layout with chessboard form damages and interdicts the transferring path and habitat of biology so as to reduce the ecological function of corridor. The construction of auxiliary landscape of urban road did not combine with local humanities landscape, which results in the disconnection between natural landscape, humanities landscape and the complexity and diversity of humanities landscape. Land use is unreasonable and land resource is wasted severely. To solve these problems, the paper puts forward a few available solutions for ecological restoration of roads in Xingsha. This paper studies the environmental influence, land use, protection of ecological diversity and landscape culture of Xingsha satellite town in order to provide scientific basis for road ecological design and construction while urban expands.