Abstract: With the social and cultural changes, and the evolution of environmental ethics, the post-industrial areas have undergone 50 years of renewal and development. With this background, the research explores the four evolutionary processes of the worldwide post-industrial area renewal, i.e., soft, strong, structural and merging transformations in order to reveal the continuous development and improvement of post-industrial landscape connotations in terms of landscape design and practice, society and legislations, ecologies and innovations. Through the diachronic analysis, it reinterprets the epoch-making cases in the course of 50 years to uncover diversified explorations of post-industrial area renewal in landscape architecture. From the perspective of historical research, the research constructs the logic of historical phases — evolving connotations — case milestones, providing the guidance and reference for further development of current post-industrial landscape theories and practices in China.