Rapid and high urbanization in China puts forward higher and higher requirements for urban parks’ construction and service functions. The application of intelligent information technology to improve the design, management, and service level of urban parks is a useful technical approach to effectively respond to these requirements. The article sorts out four development stages of urban parks’ intelligent construction, summarized as informatization, digitization, smart park and smarter park. It combined with the representative research cases at domestic and abroad, which summarized the relevant progress of the intelligent construction of urban parks for different service objects. Finally, the development trend of the intelligent construction of urban parks based on intelligent information technology in Shanghai is proposed, which includes explicitly three aspects: the refined design and construction for planners, the intelligent operation and management for park managers, humanized interactive experience for park visitors.