A Study On The Master Urban Design In The Current Urban Planning System Of China

The concept of modern urban design has provoked widespread interest in the circles of planning from its entering China in the 1980's. Because urban design has not acquired legal position in China and the country has not give a definite orientation, many designer sticks to their own version of argument. The content and achievement are of a wide variety and hasn't unified opinion in practice.The urban planning system of our country was established early in the foundation of our state. It has some disadvantages after the reform and the quick speed of urbanization. The problem has aroused the attention in the circle of planning. Urban design can solve some of the questions and accord with the demand of the city construction. So the problem of connection of urban design and the current urban planning systems must be speedily resolved.The core of this thesis is how to enforce urban design at the stage of master planning.The thesis started with the basic recognition of urban planning and urban design, discusses the function of urban design in the construction of Chinese and foreign ancient cities; the origin and development of modern urban planning and design; the development of the theory and practice of modern urban design in China and foreign countries; the disadvantages of urban planning system and current drafting of urban planning in our country.On the basis of this, the thesis discuss the relationship between urban planning and urban design and their particular emphasis; establishes the correspondence principle between the drafting of urban design and the current urban planning system; points out emphatically the idea that urban design must run through all the stages of planning; studies the assignment type and content of urban design in each stage.The thesis ended with the study of master design. Based on Kevin Lynch's urban design theory with relevant supplement and improvement, the thesis establishes the theory frame of current master design. And then, it discusses the content and'method of the drafting of master design, points out the layer and system relation of urban design at this stage. Finally, it expresses how to combine the urban design theory with practice with BaoJi Master Urban Design as the case.One more thing must be pointed out is that the focal point of this thesis is the theory content and method of master design, so it doesn't touch upon the aspects such as enforcement administration, public participation mechanism and so on..