ENLIGHTENMENT OF URBAN PLANNING HISTORY IN THE WEST ON CHINA’S URBAN PLANNING

Abstract

This paper argues that China’s existing urban planning system can not be adapt to the rapid development of the cities which directly result in criti- cism from urban planners, the criticism concentrates on the relationship of process and blueprint, techno- logical reason and social reason, physical planning and comprehensive planning, elite-guided close plan- ning and public-participated open planning. It argues that the development of history contains its intrinsic logicality and inevitability, and the present develop- ment of China’s urban planning is similar to some stage of urban planning history in the west. Then it combs the contexts and sequences of the concepts from the perspective of urban planning history in the west.