Townhouse planning in China is defferent from that in North America. A significant amount of recreation lands have to be replaced by residential developments in order to ease the pressure of high population desity. Accordingly, pathes which generally are solely seen as walkways take on a dual role both as circulation and garden spaces in the planning. The gardens for Qujiangshengjing Townhouse Neighborhood exemplify this idea in the historical city of China－Xian. The pathes in the townhouse community have been transformed into a series of linear gardens which significantly enrich the outdoor walking experience and create an additional value for the community under the limitation of open spaces.

The entrance garden serves as a transitional feature between the outside and inside of the new built community next to an ancient style village with a famous 1000-years-old Tang Dynasty pagoda in it. The design of the garden adopts certain traditional philosophies in order to respect the context and the history of the area. The ideas such as "Zen" and "Ying & Yang" have been integrated into the design to arouse a sense of serenity and poetry.