Traditional methods of urban planning focus primarily on urban land use, population size, and transportation priorities, and often fail to consider the environmental quality and welfare of urban systems. Development of formats that improve the future quality of life for urban residents requires the incorporation of available data and technologies, and especially residents' actual experiences, into urban planning frameworks. Moreover, rational, scientific planning is dependent on comprehensive analyses of urban ecosystems, including both natural and human factors. A novel concept and theory, "landsenses ecology", can assist urban planners in integrating human experiences into urban-planning frameworks by incorporating information deriving from direct sensory experience, including vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, into planning frameworks. Based on the framework of landsenses ecology, and using the town of Xiji as a case study, we constructed a provisional landsenses plan for the urban-rural ecotone, in which we addressed the importance and challenges of incorporating sense-based information into the ecological planning process.