Eco city is the only way to achieve a co-ordination compound sub-systems including nature, society and economy in modern city. The Environmental Protection Model City, eco-city, ecological civilization City is China's eco-city construction work the low, medium and high three levels and stages. Ecological civilization, the advanced stage of construction of eco-city, is beginning to become the new trend of China's urban environmental protection and new goals. Therefore, to establish a mature possible quantitative indicator for the ecological system of urban civilization is of great significance. Recent studies and practice show that lack of a set of standard and integrate index is the main drawback of ecological-civilization-experimental-city construction, though discussions based on theory go further. In this study we wanted to explore the question of how to build a set of practical metrics for ecological-civilization-city construction. Taking cities in Taihu Lake Basin for example, a framework constitutes of five-system and three-layer with 41 indicators was proposed.