A Study On The Role Evolvement Of Western Urban And Rural Planning Based On The Historical Sociology Methods

Nowadays with the increasingly sharp conflict in the urban-rural dual structure, urban and rural planning often gets trapped in conflict of its role in space coordination. The essay attempts to reveal the mechanism of the role evolvement, as the answer to how to position itself.Historical sociology is a subject located in the midst of history and sociology, which makes it interdisciplinary and widely-used. Based on methods of historical sociology, the essay starts with the study of urban planning history, and then applies sociological theories to analyze the historical material, aimed to elaborate on the evolvement of the role urban planning playing in the western urban-rural society from City-Country Contradiction to City-Country Integration. In the essay, a study path has been built for the practical application of historical sociology methods to urban planning, as well as an analysis tool of individualistic paradigm set by socialist Raymond Boudon. All above goes for the contrastive research across time on the models of role in different periods, shown in the evolvement analysis composed by three parts of the formation mechanism, the operation mechanism and dynamic mechanism.The essay contends that the role of urban and rural planning in western history results in objective environment and self-made impression. In objective aspect, the social status granted by authority, society expectation, government role and social structure have a great influence on role evolvement of urban planning. In subjective aspect, the action system and its executor, the role of urban planner, and urban planning values are main parts of making the role by subjective initiative itself. All above evolve in a very close relation to the role evolvement of urban planning. The last part of the essay concludes the basic rules of the evolvement and puts forward the research structure of Chinese urban planning role, in expectation of inspiration to the later related study.