The principle of urban planning is an important required foundation course of urban planning major and related fields. content covers almost basic principles of all of professional knowledges involved in urban planning processes. This course itakes the planning theory, principle and layout method as a basis and urban element planning as the core content. This course focuses on teaching urban planning methodology and basic contents, the relationship of urban planning with regional planning, natural conditions and environmental factors affecting urban construction after providing an overview of the modern urban planning system structure and the evolution history of urban planning thoughts, theoretical methods and practice at home and abroad. According to the requirement of the urban master planning, the course introduces how to determine the urban nature and development scale, to plan the layout of urban elements including industrial land, storage and logistic land, and regional traffic, urban road system, living community, public space. The course also introduces the urban heritage conservation and urban renewal, urban disaster prevention and mitigation, urban agglomeration planning and town and village planning. Finally, through analyzing different types of urban planning and urban planning alternatives, the course is to train a comprehensive planning ability of students on basis of urban planing principles.
Urban Planning
城市规划主要研究的是城市的发展、合理布局和安排各项工程的综合部署，是城市管理的重要一步，也是城市建设和管理的依据。城市规划专业是一个要求相对比较综合的学科，培养具备城市规划、城市设计等方面的知识，能在城市规划设计、城市规划管理、决策咨询、房地产开发等部门从事城市规划设计与管理，开展城乡道路交通规划、城乡生态规划、园林游憩系统规划，并能参与城乡社会与经济发展规划、区域规划、城乡开发、房地产筹划以及相关政策法规研究等方面工作的城乡规划学科高级工程技术人才。由于城市是一个很具社会特征的对象，除了工程类的知识外，还需要具备许多社会知识，甚至包括一些文学、美学知识。
