Abstract:Historical towns along the Yuanshui River Basin have a long-standing history and culture. The layout and the site selection of the historical towns along the Yuanshui River Basin both have reflected the essence of ancient Wuxi culture, and showed the typical distribution features of landscape culture towns. Thus, the new urbanization construction shall be proceeded by the inheritance of the local dwelling culture and the protection of the natural ecology along the drainage basin, the coordination of the historical urban area construction, and the respect of the ethnic characteristics. The spatial form of the town in Yuanshui River Basin are closely linked with the Yuanshui River, modern new urbanization construction shall, from the macroscopic level, i.e. the regional planning of the Yuanshui River Basin, analyze the problems existed in currently small town construction, and shall accurately position as well as reasonably lay out the new urbanization construction.