列为中国软科学系列丛书之一的《城市科学》一书,最近已由浙江教育出版社出版。该书由何钟秀、曾涤合编,是国内系统研究城市问题的一部新作。该书对现代城市的本质、要素、结构、功能、地位、作用、管理之间的内在联系与运动规律等问题作了系统的介绍。作者通过对历史上城市兴衰演变过程的研究与现代化城市现状的分析,认为城市运动的规律是经济活 City Science, one of China's soft science series, was recently published by Zhejiang Education Press. The book by He Zhongxiu, Zeng Di co-editor, is the domestic system of urban research a new work. The book provides a systematic introduction of the issues such as the nature, elements, structure, function, status, role and management of modern cities. Through the research on the evolution process of the rise and fall of the city in history and the analysis of the status quo of the modern city, the author thinks that the law of the city movement is economic