当代城市设计实践在城市空间管理中发挥着重要的作用,然而对管理职能的公共性仍然存在着诸多争议。作为公共管理的价值基础,公共性的理论认识将有助于理解城市设计专业实践在其关注对象、管理主体和管理途径等方面的具体价值内涵。城市设计过程的公共性客观存在,但在具体表现上呈现了不同程度的梯度特征,因而实际的界定是根据不同情况通过具体运作过程得以实现。公共性价值特征的探讨不仅仅是对城市设计职业伦理的倡导,更重要的是为城市设计管理实务提供一种分析工具,以此认识具体的管理职能。 Contemporary urban design practices play an important role in urban space management, however, there are still many controversies about the public nature of management functions. As the value basis of public management, the public cognition of the public will help to understand the concrete value connotation of urban design specialty practice in its object of concern, management subject and management approach. The publicity of urban design process objectively exists, but it shows different degrees of gradient characteristics in its concrete performance. Therefore, the actual definition is realized through concrete operational processes according to different situations. The study of public value characteristics not only advocates urban design ethics, but more importantly, it provides an analytical tool for urban design management practice to recognize specific management functions.