Abstract: The perception on the cityscape identity comes from the revelation and reading to the urban spaces' pattern,which presents the deposit of the life and the culture formed during each historical period.This revelation and perception always rely on the expansion of linear public spaces,it is not just the space form like street and road,it could be a circulation or a direction with all the elements system that perceived by the common people.Through the analysis of landscape from the Big Goose Pagoda to the Bell Tower in Xi'an,it is explored the way for a cityscape design from the linear space.