Abstract:As a typical northern transport city, the construction of Tianjin traditional landscape system is deeply affected by the regional water transport environment. Based on the research on the interaction relationship between city and the canal, this paper classifies the traditional landscape, and then discuss the construction paradigm of Tianjin traditional landscape system in 4 aspects: skeleton architecture, traditional gardens, landscape facilities and city imagery, hoping to provide a beneficial way for the construction of the modern landscape system of canal city in the northern plain.