Since the reform and opening up of our country, with the improving of the market mechanisms and the government taking economic construction as the center, advocating the idea of efficiency as guidance, the process of modernization and urbanization of China is showing accelerating trend. However, with the rapid acceleration of urbanization and economic development, numerous social problems and the deterioration of the natural ecological environment is emerging. All of these are forcing us to look at the problems with urban planning. According to the new public service theory in administration, the action of government has to be centered on the civil rights, and also to position itself on the provision of public services. We take the new public service theory centering on civil rights as the way to analysis urban planning, and find out the nature of urban planning, the relationship between the essence and the guarantee of civil rights. Based on the analysis of this standard, I find out the problems of urban planning in China and the recommendations of reform.Urban planning plays the role of guiding the direction of urban development and allocation of urban space, only as a reasonable allocation of space resources and sustainable development of the city, can the city implement the aim of coordinating the development of economic, social and ecological environment. And it is the prime factor to realize the civil rights in time and space of urbanization. On the ultimate meaning, the urban planning is the realization of the citizen-led urban plan for the advancement of the process of urbanization, in this process, citizens right can master the decisions of urban planning and enable ownership status, so as to ensure that the process of modernization and urbanization can be fully realized in accordance with the will of the citizens rather than the government or market. In the contemporary time of managing the nation by law and in the context of administration by law, the rule of law is the primary factor to ensure civil rights. So to explore the legal connotation of urban planning is the basic measures to guarantee citizens rights and change urban planning, which is profoundly reflected in the nation to enact laws and regulations of urban planning and urban and rural planning. Only in ensuring the nature of the rule of law in urban planning, through the mechanisms of approval, oversight, judicial review and administrative litigation to prevent local government to freely use administrative power to enact or amend the town planning, which easily results in the unreasonable development as to the detriment of the citizens'rights.At the same time, the urbanization under the socialist market economic system, if the government can not play the function of urban planning, and was confined to planning functions under the planned economy system, there will inevitably be many imbalance issues in urban development,which also easily implemented the problem of unbalancement on civil rights in time and space. To resolve this issue, we have to make full discussion on the property of governance of urban planning, change the function of city planning from control to governance, through various measures such as changing functions and reforming the management system of government to realize the governance nature of urban planning. Only under the concept of governance of urban planning, can we promote the rapid development of urbanization, and at the same time to achieve sustainable and healthy development of the city, so as to realize the aim of modernization of the city and the protection of civil rights. |