Jiangyin Xicheng Canal Parks

Jiangyin, Wuxi, China

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Jiangyin, Wuxi, China

Firm

Brearley Architects and Urbanists

Type

Landscape + Planning › Public Park Urban Green Space

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

1,000,000 +

Jiangyin Xicheng Canal Parks is a defining component of Jiangyin’s emerging city wide park network and a clear expression of BAU’s Networks Cities* framework, which understands successful urban form as a layering of interconnected, adaptive systems rather than isolated objects.

The design proposes a pair of “opposite parks” along a 4 kilometre stretch of the Xicheng Canal—two landscapes with intentionally contrasting agendas. One is a continuous, indigenous ecological corridor; the other is a highly flexible cultural park composed of 101 distinct park units. Together, they form a complementary system: one extremely environmentally resilient, the other extraordinarily culturally responsive. The parkland, situated on remediated brownfields, is the heart of the district’s transformation from a site of polluting industry and a contaminated canal into a high-density residential precinct.