Abstract:

As the main residence area of people, cities have been attached more importance to the increasing deterioration of ecological environment. The ideal of the whole human being is to construct a healthy and safe modern city which can provied sustainable development and in which people can live harmoniously with the nature. Urban forest has been considered as the most important content and a significant symbol of ecological environmental construction. It can improve urban environment, protect biological diversity and advance urban comprehensive competition, so the urban forest has been called one of the vitally fundamental establishments in cities and is the need of sustainable development. The study on urban ecological regionalization in Shanghai was based on natural habitat and environmental condition as well as distribution of ecological sensitive area, degree of urbanization, etc., meanwhile according to the grade of hydrographic net and traffic system, the proposal and basis for the distribution of urban forest in Shanghai have been proposed in this paper.

Key words: Ecological regionalization, Urban forest, Shanghai