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In the design of urban modern environmental art, traditional cultural elements are widely used, and many environmental art designers can integrate traditional cultural elements with modern environmental art perfectly, so that traditional cultural elements can be better inherited and carried forward. This paper summarizes the connotation of traditional cultural elements and modern environmental art design, briefly analyzes the role of traditional cultural elements in the design of modern environmental art in coastal cities and the current situation of modern environmental art design, and focuses on how to strengthen the use of traditional cultural elements in the modern environmental art design in coastal cities.