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Jiangnan Vanke City, in Banan District's Jieshi town in southern Chongqing, is a city block of seven residential parcels threaded by street corridors and ringed by school sites, a 5G intelligence park and a 680-mu natural children's park; the 10,000-plus-square-meter core showcase sits inside that park, and the 29,000-square-meter designed scope includes the children's park plus an 8,000-square-meter street corridor, already built and open. Landscaped by A&N Shanghai, the project frames a science-and-education new town in which the park sits within the city rather than the city within the park, and the park system is more participatory and ecologically healthy than a conventional park. The social-interaction-oriented landscape delivers two living districts: the University Avenue street corridor and the Jiangnan Children's Science Park, united by the aim of activating urban life. University Avenue stitches together commercial, residential, campus and corner-park interfaces as a transition between the urban arterial and the site, and a landmark spirit fortress at the road edge invites nearby residents to use the space. The living block stages an urban living room inside nature, where people of all ages stroll, shop, dine and cycle, and a corner park offers shaded reading and conversation under large trees. The Alphabet Park opens with an Alphabet Plaza of lively letter-shaped seats, activity courts and children's play, and the Alphabet Playground exploits the site's seven-meter drop below the municipal road to build a multi-level community park: folded climbing slopes add experiential drama, climbing and weaving add interaction, a star-lit natural playground gives children room to chase, and a bamboo grove hums with their energy. The lifted-floor community library doubles as a temporary sales center and a permanent exhibition hall, later to host a Mini's Nature Kingdom education camp, art shows, marketing, nature education and community markets. The project turns the block into a living path into the park and delivers a warm, green, future-oriented streetscape that activates the surrounding communities.