Research on Documentation of Urban Cultural Landscape—A Case Study of Shanghai Fuxing Park

In the stage of inventory planning, the conservation and restoration of urban cultural heritage is drawing more attention, whose basis is documentation. This paper points out that there exists gap between information managers and users. By means of analyzing both domestic and overseas current researches on the documentation of urban cultural landscape along with the characteristics of cultural landscape, a documentation method of urban cultural landscape is put forward which is a cycle process consists of the information source, storage and utilization. For the purpose of better integrating documentation into the conservation and restoration process, the author sets up a systematic information classification framework which consists of descriptive information and illustrative information. "Space-Event" model is used for reference to construct the classification framework of descriptive information, while the construction of illustrative information framework is based on the conservation and planning process. The research takes Shanghai Fuxing park as a case, illustrating the current problems of documentation and propounding the countermeasures, meanwhile discussing the method of constructing an open Shanghai modern parks information system.