At present, the number of people with visual impairment in China is still in the rising stage, and there are great potential safety hazards in urban travel. As an important part of urban space, the safety of pedestrian space is an important factor affecting the use of visually impaired people. Based on the summary and sorting of relevant literature, this paper divides the research on the safety of urban pedestrian space used by visually impaired people into three parts: subject user, object bearer and intermediary, showing the trend of diversification of research focus and humanization of research. This study has a certain reference significance for landscape architecture discipline based on the safe use of the visually impaired people.